University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Houston, TX
Anne Hamilton Dougherty, M.D., F.A.C.C., F.H.R.S., F.A.H.A.
The ten Broeke Family Foundation Professor of Medicine
Director, Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship
Vice President, Human Research Protection Programs
Dr. Anne Dougherty serves as the ten Broeke Family Foundation Professor of Medicine at the McGovern Medical
School and Vice President for Human Research Protection Programs at UTHealth. She graduated Phi Beta
Kappa from the University of North Carolina with highest honors. She received her medical degree and
completed her residency training at The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. Dr. Dougherty
completed her cardiology and electrophysiology fellowship training at the McGovern Medical School at
UTHealth, following which she joined the faculty and was promoted to professor of cardiology in 2001. She
is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease
and Cardiac Electrophysiology. Her clinical and research interests center on management and treatment of
cardiac arrhythmias.
Long an advocate of responsible clinical research and the rights and welfare of human research participants,
Dr. Dougherty has promoted proportionate representation of women and underserved populations in clinical
research trials. She is the Executive Chair of the Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects (CPHS).
In 2011, she assumed the role of Institutional Official and Vice President for the Human Research Protection
Programs at UTHealth.
Monday, December 4, 2023
3:45 PM – 4:45 PM ET