Alfred E. Buxton, MD

Dr. Alfred E. Buxton is a clinical electrophysiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Buxton received his BA from the University of Rochester, and MD from the University of Pennsylvania. He completed internal medicine, cardiology, and clinical electrophysiology training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He served in the US Public Health Service at the Centers for Disease Control from 1975-77. He then joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where he remained for 12 years, then moved to Temple University School of Medicine where he was Associate Director of the Cardiology Division. In 1999 he moved to Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital as Director of the Electrophysiology Laboratory. In 2004 he became the Director of the Cardiology Division at Rhode Island and Miriam Hospitals, and was named Ruth and Paul Levinger Professor of Cardiology. He joined Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in May 2011 as Director of the Clinical Electrophysiology Laboratory and EP Fellowship Training Program. He subsequently assumed directorship of the ECG Lab at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He was appointed Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School in 2014. He was PI of the NIH-funded Multicenter UnSustained Tachycardia Trial (MUSTT) beginning in 1990. His current research focuses on 2 areas: methods to predict risk of sudden cardiac death, the appropriate role of implantable defibrillators for prevention of sudden cardiac death, and mechanisms of conduction abnormalities following transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).