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David Skorton, 1949-
David J. Skorton was elected the 13th Secretary of the Smithsonian by the Institution’s Board of Regents in March 2014 and officially assumed his position July 1, 2015.
He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and grew up in Los Angeles.
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Skorton received a B.S. in psychology in 1970 and his M.D. in 1974 from Northwestern University. His medical residency and fellowship in cardiology were done at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1979. Skorton was the first physician to lead the Smithsonian.
Skorton, 64, a board-certified cardiologist, was the president of Cornell University, a position he held since July 2006.
He was also a professor in the Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College, and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the College of Engineering. His research focus is congenital heart disease, cardiac imaging and image processing.
Under Skorton’s leadership, Cornell partnered with Technion-Israel Institute of