Alfred Buxton, MD

Alfred E. Buxton, MD, is Ben-Haim Josephson Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He serves as a Director of the Clinical Electrophysiology Laboratory. He has authored or co-authored over 300 publications. He was Principal Investigator of the NIH-funded Multicenter Study of Non-Sustained Ventricular Tachycardia (MUSTT). His current research is focused on methods to predict risk of sudden cardiac death, appropriate role of implantable defibrillators for prevention of sudden cardiac death and mechanisms of ventricular tachycardia. He is the principal investigator of a prospective ongoing study evaluating mechanisms underlying conduction abnormalities in patients undergoing transcutaneous aortic valve replacement at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.