MitchelBenjaminAlpertMD

Summary

• Dr. Mitchel Alpert is The Director of Pediatric Cardiology for the Jersey Shore University Medical Center and​ was the senior member and founder of Alpert, Zales, and Castro Pediatric Cardiology ​the first Pediatric Cardiology group in Monmouth and Ocean Counties dating back to 1987. Dr. Alpert ​joined Jersey Shore Medical Center in 1988 where he started the Pediatric Cardiology program.
  
  Dr. Alpert is from New Jersey having grown up in Piscataway. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Emory University he returned to New Jersey where he went to Medical School at the Rutgers University-New Jersey Medical School and did his residency in the same program. He subsequently did his Pediatric Cardiology fellowship at New York University.
  
  Dr. Alpert has been honored to win the "Top Doctor" award in Pediatric Cardiology from both New Jersey Monthly and Castle Connolly ​every year since 2012. He has also won the teaching award from the Pediatric Residents at Jersey Shore University Medical Center six times.
  
  Dr. Alpert is board certified in both Pediatrics and Pediatric Cardiology and in fact has recertified multiple times in Pediatric Cardiology He is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and is also a fellow of the American College of Cardiology. He is also a member of the American Heart Association.
  
  Dr. Alpert also previously had been quite active with the Sports Science Committee at the United States Tennis Association for eight years helping to study the effect of high intensity exercise in our young athletes and helped to develop safety protocols. Dr. Alpert also spent 5 years at the Rutgers Medical School in New Brunswick teaching patient centered medicine to the first and second year medical students.
  
  Dr. Alpert has a special interest in treating prolonged QT syndrome, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, and other acquired cardiac diagnoses in addition to obviously treating all forms of congenital heart disease.

Mitchel B Alpert, MD discusses sudden death in athletes
Mitchel B Alpert MD, the director of Pediatric Cardiology at the Jersey Shore University Medical Center discusses sudden death in athletes 7/29/2023

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