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Biography

Joseph S. Alpert, MD, is Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine (UA COM) at Tucson and Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Medicine. Dr. Alpert earned his BA from Yale University and his MD from Harvard Medical School. He completed internship, residency, and fellowship at Brigham Hospital in Boston. He has served as Director of coronary care at the Naval Regional Medical Center in San Diego, head of the Samuel A. Levine Cardiac Unit at Brigham Hospital and Professor and Director of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, before serving as Professor and Chief of Medicine at the University of Arizona from 1992-2006. Dr. Alpert is a Master of the American College of Physicians and a fellow of the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology (ACC), the American College of Chest Physicians, and the European Society of Cardiology. He has received many awards for excellence in teaching from the Brigham Hospital, the United States Navy, the University of Massachusetts, and the UA COM. In 2004, he received the Gifted Teacher Award from the ACC. He has served on the Boards of Trustees of the ACC, the American Board of Internal Medicine, and the Association of University Professors. He has authored and/or edited 50 books and monographs and more than 600 publications.

Research Interest

Myocardial infarction, coronary artery disease, atrial fibrillation, and aortic valve disease.