Joseph S. Alpert, MD - FIHS Secretary
Dr. Alpert has been a member of the American Heart Association since 1971. He is a Fellow of the
Council on Clinical Cardiology of the American Heart Association and a past chairman of this Council,
and a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American College of Physicians, the
American College of Chest Physicians, and the European Society of Cardiology.


Directors of the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Association of
Professors of Medicine. Dr. Alpert is the former Editor of the journals Cardiology, Current Cardiology Reports, and
Cardiology in Review. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Medicine. He is a member of the Editorial
Board of 10 internal medicine and cardiovascular journals.
publications, more than 300 book chapters, review articles, and editorials, and more than 100 abstracts. Dr. Alpert lives in Dr.
Alpert is the author of 43 books and monographs, and over 500 publications including more than 200 original scientific
Tucson, Arizona and Barnstable, Massachusetts with his wife Helle Mathiasen, Cand Mag, PhD who is the Emeritus Director of
Medical Humanities and a faculty member in the College of Medicine at the University of Arizona. For many years, he team
taught a course entitled Literature and Medicine with his spouse. Dr. Alpert and his wife have two children, a daughter, Eva,
who is a tax attorney and accountant in Boston, Massachusetts, and a son, Niels, who is a director and cinematographer
working in Hollywood, California and New York City.

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