James Ip

James Ip, MD, FACC, FHRS was born and raised in New York City. After graduating summa cum laude from Columbia University, he attended Harvard Medical School. There, he received a Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship, which enabled him to pursue research in cardiovascular genetics and stem cell therapy. He completed his internal medicine residency at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and returned to New York for his cardiovascular disease and cardiac electrophysiology fellowships at Cornell University Medical Center.
He is is a full professor and the director of cardiac pacing and implantable devices at Cornell, With over one hundred fifty peer-reviewed journal publications and book chapters, Dr. Ip has authored many articles in the field of cardiac electrophysiology involving cardiac implantable device diagnostics, catheter ablation techniques, investigational devices and medications, and mechanisms of arrhythmias in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Journal of the American Medical Association, and Circulation. Based on his expertise, he serves on national and global advisory boards as well as international steering committees for various pharmaceutical and cardiac rhythm device companies. He lectures at national and international meetings and has taught hundreds of physicians across the world on procedural techniques.
He serves as an associate editor and editorial board member of multiple cardiovascular and electrophysiology journals and has reviewed over 250 articles. He has been recognized among Castle Connolly “Top Doctors” in Cardiac Electrophysiology each year since 2016.
Dr. Ip previously served on on the American Board of Internal Medicine examination question-writing committee and the Cornell medical school admissions committee. He teaches medical students, residents and fellows at Cornell, and he is the associate program director of the cardiac electrophysiology fellowship program.