Augustus Grant, MD, PhD
Augustus O. Grant, MD, PhD, is professor of medicine at Duke University Medical Center. Grant assumed the position of vice dean of faculty enrichment for the Duke University School of Medicine on July 1, 2007.
He was born in Jamaica, West Indies. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and immigrated to the United States for his PhD in Pharmacology at the University of California at San Francisco.
He completed a medical residency at the University of Manitoba, Canada, and came to Duke University in 1977 as a fellow in cardiology. He joined the faculty in 1980 on completion of his fellowship. In 1986-1987 he was an Alexander von Hombolt fellow at the University of Saarland in Germany. He is certified by the British Medical Council, the American Board of Internal Medicine, and the subspecialty board of Cardiovascular Diseases.
Grant is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association. He served as the president of the Association of Black Cardiologists from 1992 to 1994. He is past president of the American Heart Association. He has served on the board of directors of the Heart Rhythm Society and on the board of the Stanley Sarnoff Foundation. He serves on the editorial boards of Circulation and the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. He is currently deputy editor of the Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology and a consulting editor to the American Journal of Physiology. He has received numerous awards and belongs to several other professional societies including the Biophysical Society and the American Society of Clinical Investigation.
Grant’s research and clinical interests include: “Mechanism of Action of Antiarrhythmic Drugs,” “Cardiac Electrophysiology,” and “Management of Patients with Cardiac Arrhythmias.” He has published 101 peer-reviewed manuscripts.
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