Alan S. Maisel MD
Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Diego
Alan S. Maisel, MD
Professor of Medicine
Director, Coronary Care Unit and Heart Failure Program, Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System
San Diego, CA
Dr. Alan S. Maisel graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School, received his internal medicine training at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, where he was chief resident, and completed a cardiology fellowship at the University of California, San Diego.
Dr. Maisel is a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He is the Director of the Coronary Care Unit and Heart Failure Program at the VA San Diego Healthcare System in La Jolla, California. Dr. Maisel is active on the faculty at UCSD where he has won numerous teaching awards. He just completed a ten-year stint as Associate Editor of the Journal of the American College Cardiology
Dr Maisel is considered one of the world’s experts on cardiac biomarkers and has over 400 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. He has been lead investigator on seven multicentre biomarker trials.
Dr. Maisel has co-founded three companies, Cardero Therapeutics, Asceptiscope, and Whispering Hearts.
Dr Maisel is also a writer of medical fiction. His first novel, Bedside Manners was optioned to Warner Brothers. His second novel, Brain Chicane, is about a young and idealistic physician working at the premier multiple-organ transplant hospital in Chicago where he investigates overdose cases that are not totally kosher.
He is the primary care-giver for five children and gave up on sleep five years ago.