Jonathan L. Halperin

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Jonathan L. Halperin
Born(1949-01-29)January 29, 1949
The Mount Sinai Hospital

Jonathan L. Halperin (born January 29, 1949) is an American

Mount Sinai Medical Center, both in New York City.[2][3] Halperin was the principal cardiologist responsible for both the design and execution of the multi-center Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation (SPAF) clinical trials, funded by the National Institutes of Health, which helped develop antithrombotic strategies to prevent stroke, and he subsequently directed the SPORTIF clinical trials, which evaluated the first oral direct thrombin inhibitor for prevention of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation.[2][4][5]

Halperin is the author of 3 books, 80 original peer reviewed reports, 38 chapters, 24 guidelines and position statements, 51 invited articles and 58 abstracts. He is listed among New York Magazine’s Best Doctors of 2009.[6]

Biography

Halperin was born in 1949 in

Boston University School of Medicine and the American Heart Association
. In 1980, Halperin was appointed to The Mount Sinai School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Medicine. In 1993, he was named the Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor of Medicine.

Halperin is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, and the Councils on Circulation, Stroke and Cardiology of the American Heart Association. He is past president of the Society for Vascular Medicine.[7]

Current federal appointments include the

Data Safety Monitoring Board for the Clinical Trial of Aspirin and Simvastatin in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension for the National Institutes of Health.[3][8]

Clinical investigation topics include congestive

.

Honors and awards

Extramural honors and awards include:[3]

  • Master of the Society for Vascular Medicine, 2009[9]
  • The Heart of New York Award, 2005
  • The Heart of New York Presidential Salute, 2002
  • Howard B. Sprague Research Fellowship Award, 1979

Books

Publications

Partial list:

References

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