Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief:
Ernesto L. Schiffrin, C.M., MD, PhD, FRSC, FRCPC, FACP, FAHA
A native of Argentina who has lived in Canada since 1976, Dr. Ernesto Schiffrin is Distinguished James McGill Professor and former Vice-Chair, Department of Medicine, McGill University; he is Director, Hypertension and Vascular Research Unit, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, and Director, Cardiovascular Prevention Centre and Physician-in-Chief Emeritus, Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital. He is an American Society of Hypertension certified specialist in hypertension.
Dr. Schiffrin’s research deals with molecular and cellular mechanisms of vascular disease and hypertension and their treatment, supported currently by a Foundation Grant from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (2015-2022). He is author of more than 610 peer-reviewed publications, many book chapters and is editor of 4 published books, on molecular and clinical aspects of vascular disease and hypertension. Dr. Schiffrin was Associate Editor of Hypertension (AHA journal) since 2003 to September 15, 2015.
Dr. Schiffrin has been President of the Canadian Hypertension Society (1991-92), Chair of the High Blood Pressure Research Council of the American Heart Association (AHA) (2002-2004), President of the InterAmerican Society of Hypertension (2005-2007), President of the Quebec Hypertension Society (2009-2011), President of the International Society of Hypertension (2012-2014) and was President of Hypertension Canada (2013-2016).
Dr. Schiffrin has received numerous awards, including the 2007 Irvine Page-Alva Bradley Lifetime Achievement Award of the AHA High Blood Pressure Research Council, the 2010 Bjorn Folkow Award of the European Society of Hypertension, the 2011 AHA High Blood Pressure Research Council Excellence Award in Hypertension Research, the 2013 American Society of Hypertension Robert Tigerstedt Award, the 2013 Research Achievement Award of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society, the 2015 Distinguished Scientist Award of the Canadian Society of Clinical Investigation, Margolese National Prize on Heart Disorders (2016); Prix Galien Recherche Award (2017), Distinguished Fellow of ISH (2018), ISH Franz Volhard Award (2021), and the 2021 AHA Distinguished Scientist in Hypertension and Kidney and Cardiovascular Disease. He was appointed Member of the Order of Canada (C.M.) in July 2010.
Deputy Editor:
Paul Muntner is Founder and Chief Scientist at Perisphere Real World Evidence, LLC and a Visiting Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). At Perisphere, Dr. Muntner leads studies using advanced epidemiology and statistical tools to generate real-world evidence that improve health outcomes. In addition, he is a member of the American Heart Association’s Health Equity Research Network to Prevent Hypertension and the Jackson Heart Study Hypertension Working Group. Previously, Dr. Muntner was Associate Dean for Research and co-director of the Hypertension Research Center at UAB. He was a writing committee member for the 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Blood Pressure Guideline and chaired the 2019 American Heart Association Scientific Statement on blood pressure measurement. His research has focuses on blood pressure measurement, blood pressure control, hypertension-related risks and racial disparities in hypertension and hypertension-related outcomes. Dr. Muntner has an extensive bibliography in clinical and population hypertension, including over 600 peer-reviewed journal articles. Dr. Muntner earned a Master’s degree in biostatistics and a doctorate degree in epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.
Associate Editors:
Dr. Akira Nishiyama is Chairman & Professor of Pharmacology at Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan. After receiving his M.D. (1993) and Ph.D. (1999), he trained at Tulane University in New Orleans, L.A., as a postdoctoral fellow. Dr. Nishiyama was promoted to the rank of Chairman and Professor in the Pharmacology in 2007. He was appointed as Vice Rector of Kagawa University in 2021.His efforts have focused on the regulation of blood pressure and renal hemodynamics, as well as renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system and Onco-Hypertension. Dr. Nishiyama has over 500 peer-reviewed publications.
Dr. Nishiyama has been Vice President of the Japanese Society of Hypertension (2022~) and has received numerous awards, including the Hoecht Marion Roussel Excellence in Renal Research Award from the American Physiological Society (1999), Bristol Squibb Recognition Awards for Young Investigators from the American Society of Hypertension (2001), The Harry Goldblatt Award in Cardiovascular Research Award Finalist from the American Heart Association, High Blood Pressure Council (2006), Jokichi Takamine Award from the Japanese Society of Cardiovascular Endocrinology and Metabolism, Oshima Award from the Japanese Society of Nephrology (2012), Scientific Award from Japanese Kidney Foundation (2021), etc.
Sandra J. Taler MD is a Professor of Medicine and Consultant in the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota with 33 years of experience in the treatment of complex hypertension and associated diseases. After receiving her medical degree from Mayo Medical School, she completed her Internal Medicine Residency at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota and fellowships in Hypertension and Nephrology at Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts. She is a certified Kidney Transplant Specialist by the American Society of Transplantation.
She has received research funding from the NIH and has published more than 110 articles, book chapters, editorials and commentaries on nephrology and hypertension topics. She served on the panel appointed to JNC 8, the 2017 ACC/AHA Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults Writing Committee, the 2018 American Heart Association Scientific Statement on Resistant Hypertension Writing Committee and the 2017 Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes Clinical Practice Guideline on the Evaluation and Care of Living Kidney Donors Writing Committee. She chaired the American Society of Hypertension Clinical Specialist in Hypertension Examination for 15 years and the Certified Hypertension Clinician Examination for 4 years until 2018.
Dr. Taler’s clinical and research interests include hypertension guidelines, treatment of resistant hypertension, post-transplant hypertension, the evaluation and follow-up of living kidney donors including hypertensive living kidney donors, and the care of kidney transplant patients.
R. Clinton Webb, PhD
Dr. R. Clinton Webb is the Director of the Cardiovascular Translational Research Center and Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. He is the former Chair of the Department of Physiology, Augusta University. His research interests include the physiology of vascular smooth muscle with particular emphasis placed on hypertension, diabetes and sexual dysfunction.
Dr. Webb is a fellow of the American Heart Association’s Council for Hypertension and a member of the American Society of Hypertension, the American Physiological Society (APS) and the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. He was the inaugural recipient of the Bodil M. Schmidt-Nielsen Distinguished Mentor and Scientist Award, APS’s Women in Physiology Committee in 2004. He received the Carl J. Wiggers Award from the APS in 2012 and the AstraZeneca Award from the International Society for Hypertension in 2012. In 2013, he received the Irvine Page and Alva Bradley Lifetime Achievement Award from the AHA Council for Hypertension.
Dr. Webb earned a B.A. in Physiology in 1971 from Southern Illinois University and a Ph.D. (Anatomy) from the University of Iowa in 1976. He completed postdoctoral fellowships in the Department of Physiology, University of Michigan (1976-78) and the Department of Pharmacology, Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen in Antwerp, Belgium (1978-79).
As a mentor for nearly four decades, Dr. Webb has promoted the careers of many students and postdoctoral fellows. Forty-two postdoctoral fellows have trained in his laboratory and he has served as the thesis supervisor for twenty-two graduate students.
Managing Editor:
Yvonne P. Raiford
Founding Editor-In-Chief:
John H. Laragh, MD
Emeritus Editor-In-Chief:
Michael H. Alderman, MD
Guest Editors:
Hillel W. Cohen, MPH, DrPH
Charles T. Stier, Jr., PhD
Social Media Editors:
Swapnil Hiremath, MD, MPH
Brandi Wynne, PhD
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