Anne H. Dougherty, MD

Medical School
University of Texas Medical Branch, 1978

Residency
University of Texas Medical Branch, 1981

Fellowship
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 1984

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Dr. Anne Dougherty is a board certified Physician and Professor in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).

Dr. Dougherty is the recipient of many honors and awards, including Top Doctor by US News and World Report in 2011, Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Service at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in 1996, 1997 YWCA Outstanding Women of Achievement—Medicine, Science and Technology Award, and American Heart Association’s Paul Dudley White Award 1997-1998. She is past president of both the Houston Cardiology Society and the Houston Electrophysiology Society.

Long an advocate of responsible clinical research and the rights and welfare of human research participants, Dr. Dougherty has also promoted the appropriate representation of women in clinical research trials. She has been the Executive Chair of the Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects since 2004. In 2011, she assumed the role of Institutional Official and Vice President of the Human Research Protection Programs.