Dr. Catherine C. Hart is Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and Associate Attending Physician at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. She received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1972 and medical degree from University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1980. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Infectious Diseases at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center.After finishing her residency and fellowship she joined the full-time faculty at Weill Cornell. There, in addition to building her clinical practice, she was Director of Student Health and Associate Director of the Center for Special Studies, the AIDS clinic at New York Hospital. Since 1990 she has been a member of the voluntary faculty.Dr. Hart was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha National Honor Society in 1979 and received the American Medical Women’s Association Scholarship Achievement Citation in 1980. She has been regularly named one of New York Magazine’s Best Doctors and Castle Connelly’s Best Doctors in America and has received the Compassionate Physician Recognition Award from the Schwartz Center.