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(Hypertension. 2007;50:704.)
© 2007 American Heart Association, Inc.

Awards of the XVIIth Scientific Meeting of the Inter-American Society of Hypertension

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	Inter-American Society of Hypertension Lifetime Achievement Award: Alberto Nasjletti, MD

 
Dr Alberto Nasjletti is a Professor of Pharmacology at New York Medical College in Valhalla, NY. He earned an MD degree from the School of Medicine of Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina, in 1965. As a medical student, he received research training under the mentorship of Drs Juan Carlos Fasciolo and Oscar A. Carretero in the Department of Pathophysiology. In 1968 he began postgraduate research training at the Research Division of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, under the mentorship of Dr Georges M.C. Masson.

Dr Nasjletti is a member of 10 scientific societies, including the American Heart Association Council for High Blood Pressure Research, the American Physiological Society, the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, the Inter-American Society of Hypertension (IASH), and the International Society of Hypertension. He has served as Vice-Chair, Chair, and Immediate Past Chair of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research and as member of this Council’s Executive Committee, Program Committee, and CIBA/Novartis Award Selection Committee. He has also served on the American Society of Hypertension Membership and Program Committees, and on the Board of Trustees of the Inter-American Society of Hypertension. Dr Nasjletti serves or has served on the Editorial Boards of Hypertension, the American Journal of Physiology, and the Journal of Hypertension. Presently, he is the Editor in Chief of the American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology. He also has served in a number of research review panels of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and . . . [Full Text of this Article]