Jose Jalife MD, PhD

Jose Jalife, M.D. was born in Mexico City, Mexico on March 7, 1947. He completed his M.D. at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1972. After clinical training in Spain, he returned to Mexico to conduct research in cardiovascular pharmacology and physiology at the Universidad Nacional and the National Institute of Cardiology. In 1973, he moved to the United States to work as a postdoctoral fellow the Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, NY, and the Masonic Medical Research Laboratory in Utica, NY. He joined the Department of Pharmacology, Upstate Medical University, as a member of the faculty in 1980 and became its Chairman in 1988. In January of 2008, he was recruited by the University of Michigan to his present position as an endowed professor and co-director of the Center for Arrhythmia Research.