Assistant Professor Alexander Peikert

Alexander Peikert is an Assistant Professor of cardiology and board-certified cardiologist at the University Heart Center Graz of the Medical University of Graz, Austria. His research interests focus on clinical trials, cardio-renal-metabolic disease, and pharmacotherapy. He graduated and earned his MD at the University of Freiburg, Germany. He trained in internal medicine and cardiology at the University Heart Center Freiburg, Germany, and the University Heart Center Graz, Austria. He completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA, USA. He is involved in the conduct, analyses, and reporting of multiple international randomized clinical trials. He is a Future Trialists Fellow of the Global CardioVascular Clinical Trialists Forum. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications in leading high-impact journals. He serves as Deputy Editor for the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.