Professor Alan Maisel

Professor Alan Maisel

University of California San Diego, San Diego (United States of America)

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Graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School, and completed a cardiology fellowship at the University of California, San Diego. For 32 years he was director of the Coronary Care Unit and Heart Failure Program at the VA San Diego Healthcare System in La Jolla, California. During this time Dr. Maisel was active on the faculty at UCSD where he won numerous teaching awards. Service during UCSD tenure included chair of the faculty and chair of the Admissions committee He was served as the Associated Editor of the American Journal of Cardiology for over ten years Dr Maisel is considered one of the world’s experts on cardiac biomarkers and has over 500 scientific publications. He has authored several ground-breaking manuscripts that have paved the way for development of diagnostic tools for patients with congestive heart failure. In particular, he was the leading investigator on studies that brought the use of BNP into clinical practice, including the now famous Breathing