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FACULTY & STAFF DETAILS
Michael H. Alderman, MD
Professor Emeritus
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Dept. of Epidemiology & Population Health
1300 Morris Park Avenue, Belfer 1309
Bronx, NY 10461
Phone:
(718) 430-2281
Fax:
718 430-8780
E-mail:
michael.alderman@einstein.yu.edu
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Dr. Alderman was awarded a B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard College in 1958 and an M.D. degree from the Yale Medical School in 1962. He did postgraduate training at The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health while serving in the United States Public Health Service from 1964 to 1966. He was the Glorney Raisbeck Research Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine from 1967 to 1968 and subsequently, in 1973 and 1977, received Travelling Fellowships from the World Health Organization. Dr. Alderman is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American Society for Clinical Nutrition, and a Member (1998) of the Association of American Physicians.
Following Residency Training in Internal Medicine at the Bronx Municipal Hospital Center of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Cornell University College of Medicine, in 1970 Dr. Alderman joined the Departments of Public Health and Medicine at Cornell University Medical College.
Dr. Alderman has participated in a variety of national and international activities including a period as Program Director of the Chronic Disease Care Program at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of the West Indies, and a Visiting Professor in Cardiovascular Medicine at Oxford University from 1990 to 1991. Dr. Alderman was a Visiting Resident at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center of the Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy in 2001.
From 1984 through 1997 Dr. Alderman was the Chairman of the Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine and remains Professor of the Department and Professor of Medicine. He is also Associate Director of the Cardiovascular Center at the New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical College. Dr. Alderman served as President of the American Society of Hypertension, 1996-98 and is currently (2004-2006) President of the International Society of Hypertension.
Dr. Alderman has authored more than 270 scientific papers, book chapters and textbooks describing his research on hypertension in the community, its relation to cardiovascular disease, and the impact of therapy. In 1973, he established the Worksite program for antihypertensive care which has created both a model for effective care, and the largest extant long-term, systematically treated cohort of hypertensive subjects. Dr. Alderman’s research has focused on understanding the heterogeneity of hypertensive patients in relation to their cardiovascular outcomes. His best-known work in this regard relates the renin/angiotensin system and sodium to cardiovascular disease.
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