Born, raised, and educated in New York State, Alwin received his MD from the New York University School of Medicine in 1984 and completed his internal medicine residency at the Albany Medical Center. He later joined the full-time faculty in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Albany Medical College where his duties included provision of primary care to adult patients and the teaching of residents and medical students. In 1997, he became the Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Training Program and, three years later, Vice-Chair for Academic Affairs in the Department of Medicine at Albany Medical College. In 2010, Alwin moved to Denver, CO to accept the position of Chief of Academic Medicine at Saint Joseph Hospital, where he oversees all the graduate medical education programs and ambulatory clinics. As Chief of Academic Medicine, he also serves as the Designated Institutional Official for our ACGME accredited residency programs and is a member of the hospital’s senior leadership team.

A long-standing member of the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (APDIM) and its parent organization the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM), Alwin has served on the national APDIM Public Policy Committee and the AAIM Advocacy Committee, including terms as Chair of both. As Chair of the AAIM Advocacy Committee, he also served as AAIM’s liaison to the national ACP Health and Public Policy Committee. He was elected to APDIM Council in 2011 and served as APDIM President during the 2014-15 academic year. During the three years of serving as an APDIM officer Alwin was also a member of the AAIM Board of Directors and was later elected to the office of Vice-Chair of the Board, a position he held from July 2015 until June 2017. Through APDIM and AAIM, he had the opportunity to be involved in numerous presentations at national meetings and publications, all dealing with various aspects of health policy and medical education. Alwin has also been an active member of the American College of Physicians (ACP), having served on the NY Chapter Council and chaired the NY Chapter’s Health and Public Policy Committee. In 2005 he received the NY Chapter’s Laureate Award. Upon moving to Denver in 2010, Alwin became a member of the Colorado ACP chapter and joined their Health and Public Policy Committee, serving as Chair for one year (2013-14). Alwin had the good fortune to receive the Colorado chapter’s Laureate Award in 2019. Through the ACP, he has been involved in numerous advocacy activities over the years, including attending the ACP Leadership Day in Washington, DC, nearly every year since 1998. In 2010, Alwin was honored by receiving an ACP Top-10 Key Contact Award. In 2020, he began a four-year term as the Governor for the Colorado Chapter of the ACP, that term concludes in April 2024.

Clinically, Alwin is a primary care internist and has worked with diverse, underserved populations for most of his career. For the past 13 years, he has supervised residents working in our Caritas Internal Medicine clinic, caring for a largely uninsured and underinsured population that is primarily Hispanic. Since approximately 2013, and until the launch of Uptown Community Health Center, Alwin was the care site Vice President overseeing our ambulatory clinics at Saint Joseph Hospital. In 2022 Alwin became the Chief Medical Office of Uptown Community Health Center and he held that position until 2024 when he transitioned to the Associate Chief Medical Officer role.

Languages spoken: English