Eugene Morkin, MD

Dr. Morkin is the C. Leonard Pfeiffer Professor of Medicine, Co-Director of the University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center and Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology.

A native of Oklahoma, Dr. Morkin received his medical degree in 1959 from the University of Oklahoma, where he graduated Alpha Omega Alpha. He was an intern and assistant resident on the Second (Cornell) Medical Division at Bellevue Hospital in New York City from 1959 to 1961. He was a resident in medicine and research fellow at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center from 1961 to 1966.

From 1966 to 1974, he advanced from Instructor to Associate Professor in Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and was Chief of Cardiology at Beth Israel Hospital. Dr. Morkin came to the University of Arizona in 1974 to assume the C. Leonard Pfeiffer chair of cardiovascular research. He was the founding Director of University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center and served as Director from 1986 to 1991.

Dr. Morkin was Associate Editor of the American Journal of Physiology, Heart and Circulatory Physiology. He has been on the editorial boards of Circulation Research and Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. He is a fellow of the Cardiovascular Section of the American Physiological Society and a member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation. His current research interest is the effects of thyroid hormone and other neurohormonal factors on cardiac development and function. He is the author of over 100 scientific articles published in critically reviewed medical journals.