Kevin Michael Alexander, BS, MD
Kevin Michael Alexander joined the Stanford faculty in 2019 as an Instructor in the Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology group. He completed his MD from University of Pennsylvania in 2011 and BS in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University in 2006. He completed internal medicine residency training at Johns Hopkins Hospital and cardiology fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He then finished with a fellowship in advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology at Stanford in 2019.
Dr. Alexander is Co-Chair, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, California Chapter, American College of Cardiology. He is also a member of the Stanford Amyloid Center and works closely with co-directors Drs. Ronglih Liao and Ronald Witteles. He recently received the Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Award through the American Heart Association to support his research. Dr. Alexander’s primary clinical and research interests include cardiac amyloidosis, cardiac sarcoidosis, and mechanical circulatory support.
Representative Publications:
Trends and Causes of Hospitalizations in Patients With Amyloidosis
Emerging Therapies for Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloidosis
True, True Unrelated? Coexistence of Waldenstrom’s Macroglobulinemia and Cardiac Transthyretin Amyloidosis
Geographic Disparities in Reported US Amyloidosis Mortality From 1979 to 2015: Potential Underdetection of Cardiac Amyloidosis
Association Between Ruptured Distal Biceps Tendon and Wild-Type Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloidosis
Novel Pharmacotherapies for Cardiac Amyloidosis
