Dr. Alpert is a master of the American College of Physicians and a fellow of the Council on Clinical Cardiology of the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology, the American College of Chest Physicians, and the European Society of Cardiology. He has received many awards for excellence in teaching from, among others the Peter Brent Brigham Hospital, the United States Navy, the University of Massachusetts, and the University of Arizona. In 2004, he received the Gifted Teacher Award from the American College of Cardiology. Dr. Alpert is a former member of the Board of Trustees of the American College of Cardiology and the Board of Directors of the American Board of Internal Medicine, and is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Association of Professors of Medicine. He is the current editor-in-chief of The American Journal of Medicine, a member of the editorial boards of 12 cardiovascular journals, and an editorial reviewer for 15 internal medicine and cardiovascular disease journals. Dr. Alpert has authored and/or edited 50 books and monographs and more than 600 publications, including original articles, book chapters, reviews, and editorials. He is married to Qin Mary Chen, PhD who is a professor of pharmacology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. Dr. Alpert has two children, a daughter, Eva Elisabeth Alpert, a tax attorney and accountant living in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a son, Niels David Alpert, a cinematographer living in New York City. Dr. Alpert has one grandchild, Josephine Helena Alpert living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Interests Research I serve on a number of Data Monitoring Committees (DMC) for large and small, randomized, double-blind controlled trials. This committee oversees the unblinded data from these trials to make sure nothing importantly good or bad is happening that might lead the committee to stop the trial. I am frequently the chairman of the DMC. My areas of interest include acute ischemic heart disease, cardiovascular pharmacology, and cardiovascular epidemiology.