David Albert, MD

Founder & Chief Medical Officer, AliveCor

David E. Albert is a physician, inventor and serial entrepreneur who has developed life-saving products over the last 40 years and turned a number of those innovations into startups. Today, he is a Founder and Chief Medical Officer of AliveCor. His previous startups include Data Critical (sold to GE). Dr. Albert left GE in 2004 as Chief Scientist of GE Cardiology. His latest invention, the iPhone ECG, became a global sensation via a 4-minute YouTube Video in January, 2011 and was featured on ABC, CBS, CNN and Fox News. Dr Albert has 80 issued US patents and he has authored or co-authored over 100 scientific abstracts and publications in the Cardiology literature. He graduated with Honors from Harvard College and from Duke University Medical School. Dr. Albert lives in Los Angeles with his wife and they have four children and two grandchildren.