Jay W. Mason, MD
Dr. Mason has been Medical Director and Director of R&D at Covance Cardiac Safety Services since April 2003. He graduated from Princeton and obtained his MD degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He trained in Medicine and Cardiovascular Diseases at Stanford University Medical Center where he was a member of the Faculty from 1975 to 1983. He served as Chief of Cardiology at the University of Utah from 1983 to 1999 when he became Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of Kentucky. He remains a faculty member at the latter two institutions.
His clinical, teaching and research emphasis is in cardiac arrhythmias and electrophysiology. He has been awarded approximately $29M in NIH support during his research career. Dr. Mason has also served on the National Research Review Committees for the NIH, the American Heart Association and was the Chair for the Special review Committee of the NICDR.
Dr. Mason is author of over 400 publications. He has also served on the editorial board of Cardiovascular Drugs and Therapy, Circulation, Annals of Internal Medicine, American Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Return to Scientific Advisory Board
