Michelle Asha Albert | |
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| Alma mater | Haverford College University of Rochester Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health |
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| Institutions | University of California, San Francisco Harvard Medical School Howard University, Columbia University |
Michelle Asha Albert is an American cardiologist who is the Walter A. Haas Lucie-Stern Endowed Chair in Cardiology and professor of medicine at theUniversity of California, San Francisco. Albert is a past president of theAmerican Heart Association, the Association of Black Cardiologists and of the Association of University Cardiologists. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Society of Clinical Investigators and the Association of American Physicians.
Albert attendedHaverford College, where she studied chemistry and graduated at the age of twenty.[1] She attended medical school at theUniversity of Rochester. Albert did internal medicine residency and also served as chief internal medicine resident at Columbia University Presbyterian Hospital, NY. She did her clinical and research cardiology fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Albert attended theHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she earned aMaster of Public Health.[2]
After cardiology fellowship, Albert was appointed to the faculty atHarvard Medical School. She was eventually appointed Associate Professor of Medicine.[3] Albert subsequently served as Chief of Cardiology and the Vivian Beaumont Allen Endowed Professor atHoward University.[3] Thereafter, she joined the faculty at theUniversity of California, San Francisco. Albert's research considers the relationship of molecular biomarkers as well as adversity in cardiovascular disease risk.
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