Matthew A. Allison MD, MPH, FAHA

Dr. Allison earned his undergraduate degree in Biochemistry from the California Polytechnic State University and his Doctorate in Medicine from the Uniformed Services University. After medical school, he served as a diving and undersea medical officer for the US Navy where he completed 3 tours of duty. Towards the end of his military service, Dr. Allison obtained a Master’s degree in Public Health Epidemiology and then completed residency training in Public Health and General Preventive Medicine (focused on preventive cardiology) and then fellowship training in cardiovascular epidemiology, both at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). In 2005, he joined the faculty in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at UCSD and was promoted to Professor with Tenure in 2013. He has received postdoctoral fellowship and career transition awards from the American Heart Association, as well as two R01’s and one R21 from the NIH. He has been the subcontract principal investigator for over 10 NIH funded studies and directs the UCSD Carotid Ultrasound Reading Center for research. He has been an investigator to the Women’s Health Initiative, Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and the Hispanic Community Health Study – Study of Latinos. Dr. Allison currently serves as an Associate Editor to the Circulation suite of journals and to Vascular Medicine, and has also served on several NIH study section committees and special emphasis panels (to include “Health Disparities and Equity Promotion). He is currently the Associate Director of the UCSD Center of Excellence in Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention, the Associate Director of the UCSD Integrated Fellowship on the Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases and Director of the Non-Invasive Vascular Laboratory Veteran’s Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, as well as the UCSD-SDSU MD-MPH program.