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American Heart Assoc Names Dr. Richard Kitsis (M 1980)
 Dr. Richard Kitsis, professor of medicine and of cell biology and director of the Cardiovascular Research Center at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, has been named chair of the American Heart Association Council on Basic Cardiovascular Sciences. As chair of the council, Dr. Kitsis will oversee the council’s important activities, which focus on promoting research and education to help improve understanding of the mechanisms of basic cardiovascular regulation and to support the development of new therapies and insights into clinical cardiovascular disease.
Dr. Kitsis first came to Einstein College as a postdoctoral fellow in microbiology & immunology, in 1989. He joined the Einstein faculty in 1991, following the completion of a fellowship in cardiology at Einstein’s University Hospital, Montefiore Medical Center. He was named professor in 2003, the same year he was appointed director of Einstein’s Cardiovascular Research Center and designated as the Gerald and Myra Dorros Chair in Cardiovascular Disease. In 2005, he was appointed chief of cardiology at both Einstein and Montefiore.
He received his bachelor’s degree, summa cum laude, from Harvard College and his MD from UCSF in 1980. He is a resident of Larchmont, NY.
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