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Professor & Chief, Janey & Dolph Briscoe Division of Cardiology
Director UT/UHS Heart and Vascular Institute
Janey Briscoe Distinguished University Chair in Cardiovascular Research
Allen S. Anderson, MD, FACC, FAHA is Chief of the Cardiology Division and Professor of Medicine (tenure) in the Department of Medicine at the University of Texas San Antonio. Formerly, he was the Medical Director of the Center for Heart Failure in the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute of Northwestern Medicine and Chief of the Section of Heart Failure and Transplant in the Division of Cardiology and Professor of Medicine at Northwestern Medicine. His research interests include the non-invasive assessment of heart failure and cardiac transplant patients, valvular heart disease in heart failure patients and the development of novel therapeutic approaches for advanced heart failure patients.
Dr. Anderson, a Georgia native, graduated from the Emory University School of Medicine. He completed internal medicine training, including a chief residency, at New York University/Bellevue Medical Center, followed by general cardiology fellowship at the University of Chicago and one year of advanced heart failure/transplant training at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York. He is Board Certified in Cardiovascular Diseases and Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation.
Dr. Anderson is a member of the Heart Failure Society of America, the International Society of Heart & Lung Transplantation, and a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association. He has received numerous awards for teaching medical students, residents, and fellows.
In addition to his administrative and academic roles, Dr. Anderson maintains an active clinical practice in cardiomyopathies, advanced heart failure and cardiac transplantation.
ABIM Certified, Advanced Heart Failure/Transplant Cardiology (2020),
Cardiovascular Diseases (2028) & Internal Medicine (2003, 2013)
Diplomate, National Board of Medical Examiners (1991)
Licensed in Texas, Illinois, Indiana, and New York. Active in Texas and Illinois.
Instructor of Medicine, Dept. of Medicine - NYU, 1993 – June 1994
Assist.Prof.of Medicine - Uni. of Chicago, 1997 – June 2006
Assoc. Prof. Medicine - Uni. of Chicago, 2006-April 2013
Prof. of Medicine - Northwestern University, Feinberg SOM, 2013 - Dec 2019
Prof. of Medicine with Tenure - UTHSA, Dec. 2019 -
Janey Briscoe Distinguished Uni.Chair in Cardiovascular Research, LSOM UTHSA, Dec.2019 -
Certificate, University of Oslo – International Summer School June – Aug 1984
Scandinavian Studies
B.S., Mercer University – College of Liberal Arts Aug 1982 – June 1986
Major: Chemistry
M.D., Emory University – School of Medicine Aug 1986 – May 1990
Eagle Scout, Central Georgia Council, Boy Scouts of America 1978.
Outstanding Eagle Scout Award, National Eagle Scout Association, 2018.
Pathways to Adventure Council, Chicago, IL. Recognition granted by the local council's NESA committee to Eagle Scouts who have demonstrated outstanding achievement at the local, state, or regional level.
Medical Resident NYU Medical Center/Bellevue Hospital Center July 1990 – June 1993
Senior Chief Medical Resident – NYU/Bellevue July 1993 – June 1994
Fellow, Cardiovascular Diseases – University of Chicago July 1994 – June 1997
Visiting Fellow, Circulatory Physiology – Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
Heart Failure and Transplantation July 1996 – June 1997