Michael Alderman, MD
Professor of Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Biography
Dr. Alderman, 1958 B.A., magna cum laude, from Harvard College, 1962 M.D., from the Yale Medical School, did post¬graduate 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 1967 to 1968 and subsequently, 1973 and 1977, received Travelling Fellowships from the World Health Organization.
Dr. Alderman is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a member of the Association of American Physicians. He was Professor of Public Health and Medicine at Cornell University Medical College from 1970-84, before joining the Albert Einstein College of Medicine as Chairman of its Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine. He remains Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health, and Medicine, and Professor and 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 the International Society of Hypertension, 2004-06.
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 likely the world’s 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.