William W. Aitken

William Aitken is a cardiologist and physician scientist whose clinical and research interests center around better understanding and addressing the effects of social and environmental exposures on cardiovascular disease and human health among divrse populations. He received his BA in Economics and MS in Finance from the University of Florida. He then spent a year as an Intramural Research Training Award Fellow at the National Institutes of Health prior to receiving his MD from Northwestern University and completing Internal Medicine Residency and Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship at the University of Miami Jackson Memorial Hospital. He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine-Cardiology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.