Michelle Albert

Michelle Asha Albert is an American cardiologist who is the Walter A. Haas Lucie-Stern Endowed Chair in Cardiology and professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Albert is a past president of the American 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.

Education

Albert attended Haverford College, where she studied chemistry and graduated at the age of twenty. She attended medical school at the University 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 the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she earned a Master of Public Health.

After cardiology fellowship, Albert was appointed to the faculty at Harvard Medical School. She was eventually appointed Associate Professor of Medicine. Albert subsequently served as Chief of Cardiology and the Vivian Beaumont Allen Endowed Professor at Howard University. Thereafter, she joined the faculty at the University of California, San Francisco. Albert's research considers the relationship of molecular biomarkers as well as adversity in cardiovascular disease risk.