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  2. Michelle A. Albert, MD, MPH

Michelle A. Albert, MD, MPH

Professor; Associate Dean for Admissions

Michelle A. Albert, MD, MPH FACC FAHA

Dr. Michelle A. Albert, MD MPH is the Walter A. Haas-Lucie Stern Endowed Chair in Cardiology and Professor in Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), Admissions Dean for UCSF Medical School and Director of the CeNter for the StUdy of AdveRsiTy and CardiovascUlaR DiseasE (NURTURE Center). Dr. Albert is a graduate of Haverford College, the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Harvard School of Public Health. She completed Internal Medicine Residency and was a Chief Medical Resident at Columbia University Medical Center in New York. Dr. Albert then completed Cardiovascular Clinical and Research Fellowship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where she rose in the ranks to an Associate Professor in Medicine. She was previously the Vivian Beaumont Allen Endowed Professor/Chair and Chief of Cardiology at Howard University.

Dr. Albert’s clinical expertise involves both taking care of the most critically ill heart disease patients and preventive cardiology at UCSF. As a physician-scientist-epidemiologist, Dr. Albert is engaged in cutting-edge research that innovatively seeks to incorporate “biology” with social determinants of health to transform CVD science and healthcare of global populations, i.e “the biology of adversity”. Her research has followed a bold, non-traditional path for cardiovascular disease research. A central component of her current work focuses on developing innovative implementation strategies to curb adversity related CVD risk, particularly in women and racial/ethnic minorities with a focus on health disparities and cumulative toxic stress. She is recipient of multiple research awards including NIH R01 funding, as well as funding from RWJ (Harold Amos Scholar), Kellogg and Doris Duke Foundations. Dr. Albert is a recipient of the American Heart Association (AHA) COVID-19 Rapid Track Grant. She is one of two recipients nationally of the prestigious 2018 AHA Merit award for visionary research and is the first woman and under-represented in medicine person to receive this award. Recently, Dr. Albert also received the distinguished 2020 AHA Population Science Award.

Dr. Albert is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI).

Albert currently serves as a member of the federal Advisory Committee to the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (ACD), NHLBI Board of External Experts (BEE), 2019 ACC/AHA Cardiovascular Prevention Guidelines committee and was as a standing committee member of NIH study section - Mechanisms, Emotion, Sleep & Health (MESH).

She is President-Elect of the American Heart Association (AHA), President of the Association of Black Cardiologists, Inc and the 60th President of the Association of University Cardiologists. Dr. Albert has also served/serves on multiple national AHA and American College of Cardiology (ACC) committees as well as currently on the Sarnoff Medical Research Foundation Board of Directors.

She is a sought-after interviewee/speaker on multiple news outlets including TV, digital and print media about especially about topics pertaining to research, cardiovascular health, maternal health and health equity.

Dr. Albert enjoys mentoring trainees at all levels across the United States. She was a nominee/finalist for the competitive 2011-2012 Excellence in Mentoring Award at Harvard Medical School and the recipient of the Women in Cardiology Mentoring Award from the AHA (2016). She received the ACC Heart of Women’s Health Credo Award (2012), Woman’s Day Magazine’s Red Dress Award (2014), the 2018 Daniel D. Savage Science Award (ABC’s highest honor) and the Haverford College Alumni Award (2015) -- given to an alumnus whose “work typifies the values of the college and is of outstanding service to humanity”.
Honors and Awards
President-Elect, American Heart Association, 2021-2022 President, Association of University Cardiologists, 2021-2022 Elected Member, National Academy of Medicine, 2021 President, Association of Black Cardiologists, Inc, 2020-2022 COVID-19 Rapid Track Science Award, American Heart Association, 2020 Population Science Research Award, American Heart Association, 2020 American Society for Clinical Investigation, American Society for Clinical Investigation, 2019 Merit Award, American Heart Association, 2018 Daniel D. Savage Science Award, Association of Black Cardiologists, 2018 Women in Cardiology Mentoring Award, American Heart Association, 2016 Elected Member, Association of University Cardiologists, 2016 The Haverford Award, recognizing an alumnus who uses their knowledge to the benefit of society, Haverford College, 2015 Featured "Editor's Choice & Scientist": MA Health Care Reform, Race/Ethnicity and CVD, Circulation Journal (June 17, 2014), 2014 Red Dress Award Honoree, Women's Day Magazine, 2014 Second Annual Heart of Women's Health CREDO Award, American College of Cardiology, 2012 Nesson Fellowship Award, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston MA, 2010 J Ira and Nikki Harris Family Research Award, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston MA, 2006 Herbert W. Nickens Epidemiology Award, Association of Black Cardiologists, Inc, 2004 Learner Young Investigator Award,, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston MA, 2003 Brigham and Women's Hospital/Kraft Minority Faculty Development Award, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston MA, 2001

 Michelle.Albert@ucsf.edu

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