doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.107.009549
(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 |
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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 the American Heart Association (AHA).
Dr Nasjletti’s research focuses on the role played by vasoactive hormonal systems in the regulation of vascular and renal functions involved in setting the level of blood pressure in normotensive and hypertensive conditions. He has authored more the 190 research papers, and has been funded continuously by the National Institutes of Health since 1973. He has trained more than 30 graduate students and post-doctoral fellows.
Dr Nasjletti was awarded the Harry Goldblatt Award of the American Heart Association Council for High Blood Pressure Research in 1987; the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute MERIT Award in 1988; the Dean’s Distinguished Research Award of New York Medical College in 1995; and the Irvine Page-Alva Bradley Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Heart Association Council for High Blood Pressure Research in 2005. He has also presented the American Heart Association Lewis K. Dahl Memorial Lecture in 1996, the American Heart Association Arthur Curtis Corcoran Memorial Lecture in 1997, the Harold F. Hardman Lecture of the Medical College of Wisconsin in 2000, and the Mayerson-Di Luzio Lecture of Tulane University in 2004.
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Consortium for Southeastern Hypertension Control Lifetime Achievement Award: Carlos M. Ferrario, MD |
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Carlos M. Ferrario, MD, is the Dewitt-Cordell Professor of Surgical Sciences and Director of the Hypertension and Vascular Research Center at the Wake Forest School of Medicine. Dr Ferrario is an Argentine-born cardiologist whose research has advanced understanding and treatment of high blood pressure and vascular disease. A graduate of the University of Buenos Aires Medical School in 1963, Dr Ferrario pursued postgraduate training in cardiology at the University of Goteborg and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden between 1964 and 1966. Dr Ferrario joined Dr Irvine H. Page, a pioneer in hypertension research, at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in 1966. Under his mentorship, Dr Ferrario developed a premier program on the neural and endocrine causes of hypertension. Dr Ferrario chaired the Department of Brain and Vascular Research of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation from 1984 to 1992.
Dr Ferrario’s research identified the mechanisms of action of angiotensin in the brain and the role of the sympathetic nervous system in cardiac hypertrophy and discovered new endocrine pathways leading to the formation of angiotensin peptides. He pioneered research in the renin-angiotensin system, including the discovery of the function of angiotensin-(1-7), a novel hormone that counteracts the vasoconstrictor actions of angiotensin II.
Dr Ferrario has published more than 470 papers and 2 books. He has maintained and sustained an uninterrupted record of funding from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the Natinal Institutes of Health, serving as a member and consultant to this organization and functioning as Program Director of Premier Program Project Grant on Hypertension from 1984 to date.
Dr Ferrario is a former Established Investigator and the recipient of the Harry Goldblatt Award from the AHA. In 1998, Dr Ferrario was presented with the Ignacio Chaves Centennial Gold Medal of Honor by the National University of Mexico, an internationally recognized veneration of excellence in cardiology and research. The European Society of Hypertension awarded Dr Ferrario the 1999 Hypertension Angiotensin II Investigator of the Year. He was recognized and selected as the 1999 recipient of the prestigious Wake Forest University School of Medicine Established Investigator in Clinical Science award. In addition, he was awarded the Robert Tigerstedt award from the American Society of Hypertension in 2001 and the Life Time Achievement Award from the Inter-American Society of Hypertension, 2003 for his contributions to the field of hypertension research. Dr Ferrario received the Arthur C. Corcoran Award for his work on hypertension research from the American Heart Association Council for High Blood Pressure Research in 2005. Hypertension Specialist Dr Carlos Ferrario was named the 2006 recipient of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation Alumni Association’s Distinguished Alumnus Award.
He is a member and officer of numerous medical organizations, Past President of the Inter- American Society of Hypertension, and Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the Council for High Blood Pressure Research, the American College of Angiology, and the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation. Honorary memberships include Societies of Cardiology and Hypertension in Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela and Mexico, and Puerto Rico. The American Heart Association journal Hypertension counted him as Guest Editor, Consultant Editor, and member of the Editorial Board. He was the founding Editor of the Newsletter for the Council of High Blood Pressure Research of AHA, a member of the Editorial Board of Circulation, American Journal of Physiology, Clinical and Experimental Hypertension, the Spanish Journal of Hypertension and Japan’s Journal of Hypertension Research and is the Founder of the Consortium for Southeastern Hypertension Control (COSEHC).
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Consortium for Southeastern Hypertension Control Leadership Award: Michael A. Moore, MD |
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Michael A. Moore is currently the Chief Medical Officer of the Danville Regional Medical Center. Since 1975, he has also served as a member of the faculty of the Wake Forest University School of Medicine as a Clinical Professor of Medicine/Nephrology and a member of the Hypertension Center. Dr Moore received his medical education at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and served an internship and residency in internal medicine and fellowship in hypertension research and clinical nephrology at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md. He is board certified in internal medicine and nephrology and is an American Society of Hypertension Hypertension Specialist.
Over the years, Dr Moore has been an active medical educator of hypertension and cardiovascular issues. Known for his effective communication skills, his cardiovascular teaching has reached medical students, allied health professionals, basic scientists, and practicing physicians in his own community, other medical institutions, and nationally through professional organizations that include AHA, International Society of Hypertension in Blacks, American Society of Hypertension, American Diabetes Association, and the Consortium for Southeastern Hypertension Control. He has published many peer-reviewed abstracts, practical clinical review articles, basic research reports, monographs, and Internet-based and video healthcare provider educational materials. His teaching abilities were recognized by Wake Forest University School of Medicine when he received the faculty Teaching Excellence Award in 1979. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Clinical Hypertension, the American Journal of Medical Sciences, and Clinical Therapeutics.
During the past 13 years, Dr Moore has served as the Director of Continuing Medical Education (CME) at the Danville Regional Medical Center, where the program has been recognized by the Medical Society of Virginia for outstanding CME program process. He also serves as the Director of Medical Education for COSEHC, where he developed the CME program and received accreditation by the Accreditation Council for Category I physician CME.
In 1984, he began his work at the national level on the AHA Program Committee. He served as the AHA’s representative to the Fourth and Fifth Joint National Committees on the Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure (JNCs). He was also invited to participate in the preparation of the sixth JNC and was a reviewer for the seventh JNC. Presently, he continues as a consultant to the National High Blood Pressure Education Program and participates on the National Research Grant Review Panel for the American Diabetes Association. He is the recipient of a number of recognition awards, including the American Heart Association’s "Physician of the Year" award in 2004.
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Inter-American Society of Hypertension New Investigator Awards: Vera De Moura Azevedo Farah, PhD, and Kátia De Angelis, PhD |
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Vera De Moura Azevedo Farah, PhD, is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, Mackenzie Presbyterian University São Paulo, SP, Brazil. In 1997, she received her PhD in Physiology from the Institute of Ciencias Biomedicas, University of São Paulo. She completed her post-doctoral studies in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio, in 2003.
She has published a number of articles on baroreflex, cardiopulmonary reflex impairment, blood pressure variability, cardiovascular autonomic control, and nocturnal hypertension.
A few highlights of her recent awards include: Travel Grant for Delegates from Countries Experiencing Economic Hardship, International Society of Hypertension; Merck, Sharpe, Dohme Young Investigator, 2001; Travel Award, Scientific Meeting of the Inter-American Society of Hypertension, 2001; and the John Perkins Jr. Award, American Physiological Society, 2001.
Kátia De Angelis is currently a Postdoctoral student in the Experimental Hypertension Laboratory, Heart Institute, Medical School, University of São Paulo, SP, Brazil. She received her PhD in Physiology from the Department of Physiology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, in 2001. Her PhD thesis work is "Effect of the Passive Cardiomioplastia in the Ventricular Function of Infartados Rats and in the Formation of Collateral Flow Induced Extramyocardium for the VEGF165 Application."
She has participated and presented both oral and poster presentations at a number of national and internationals meetings and published 45 abstracts since 1997. She has published a number of articles on baroreflex and chemoreflex, glucose intolerance, diabetes, autonomic cardiovascular control, and hypertension.
A few highlights of her recent awards include: Academic Merit of the Course of Physical Education Award, 2005; Third Prize, Prize Young Searching "Josef Feher" of the Congress of the Society of Cardilogia, 2006; Finalist, Young Investigating in Physical Exercise and Cardiovascular System, Society of Cardilogia of the State of São Paulo, 2006; Travel Award, Meeting of International Society of Academic Hypertension Mérito of the Course of Physical Education Award, 2005; High Lights XXV Congress of SOCESP, Fields of the Jordão, São Paulo, Brazil, 2004; First Prize, Latin American Congress of Climaterio y Menopause, American Latin Society of Climaterio y Menopause, Chile, 2004; and Poster Award FESBE 2004, Waters of Lindóia, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 2004.
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Consortium for Southeastern Hypertension Control Arthur C. Guyton New Investigator Award: Barbara Alexander, PhD |
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Barbara Alexander, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Miss.
She received her PhD from the University of Mississippi Medical Center in 1997. Her thesis title was "The Effects of Overexpression of Linker Histones on Chromatin Structure and Chromatin Activities." She was a Post-doctoral fellow from 1997 to 1999 in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. She has published a number of articles on fetal programming of hypertension and prenatal influences and endothelial dysfunction.
A few highlights of her recent awards include: New Investigator Award, Water and Electrolyte Section, American Society of Physiology, 2005; Excellence in Research Award, Gold Level, UMMC, 2004; FASEB Summer Research Conference Travel Stipend Recipient, Renal Microcirculatory and Tubular Dynamics: Molecules to Man, Callaway Gardens, 2004; American Society of Hypertension/Monarch Pharmaceuticals Young Scholar Award, New York, NY, 2003; FASEB Summer Research Conference Travel Stipend Recipient, Renal Microcirculatory Hemodynamics, Saxtons River, Vt, 2001; The Inter-American Society of Hypertension Travel Award, 2001; American Society of Hypertension/Bristol Myers Squibb Recognition Awards for Young Investigators in Training, 2000; Caroline tum Suden/Frances A. Hellebrandt Professional Opportunity Award, American Physiological Society, 2000; and National Research Service Award: Cardiovascular-Renal Mechanisms of Hypertension, 1999, 2000, and 2001.
Her professional consultations include: Small for Gestational Age Advisory Board, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, 2004; NIH Study section: Renal Urology Special Member Conflicts Meeting, 2004; Reviewer, Israel Science Foundation, Spring 2005; NIH Study section: Hypertension and Microcirculatory Study Section, October, 2005. She is an editorial board member for Hypertension; American Journal of Physiology; and Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology.
She is the Principal Investigator for a RO1 NHLBI grant: Low birth weight, the kidney, and hypertension, September 2004, September 2005, September 2005, and September 2007. $1,200,000; and Core Leader for a NHLBI RO1: Abnormal Pressure Natriuresis in Hypertension, January 2006, January 2007, January 2008, January 2009, and January 2010. $750,000.
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The New Investigator Travel and Consortium for Southeastern Hypertension Control Travel Awards |
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Recipients of the New Investigator Travel Award are Gustavo Ares, Marcos Baroni, Nathalia Bernardes, Carolina Cecilia Caniffi, Luciano Cavichio, Fernando Corrales-Medina , Mariana Alejandra Cruz, Maria Eugenia Davila, Daniel Penteado Martins Dias, Talin Ebrahimian, Ahmed A. Elmarakby, Fabiana Evangelista, Jorge Vinicius Cestari Felix, Fernanda Barrinha Fernandes, Carlos Figueroa, Patricia Fiorino, Karin Flues, Jorge Fernando Giani, Mariela Gironacci, Nestor H. Garcia, Mark Gray, Samira de Campos Grifoni, Tracy A. Henriques, Julie Lavoie, Carolina Luchetti, A. Rauoof Malik, Elizabeth Muxfeldt, Maria P. Ocaranza, Maria Cecilia Ortiz-Capisano, Horacio Osorio, Ariel H. Polizio, Luis Maria Pupi, Sergio Henrique Sousa Santos, Carmine Savoia, Danielle Senador, Gustavo Silva, Silvia Sookian, Analia Lorena Tomat, Marina Tuppy, Maria Alejandra Lopez Verrilli, Hong-Wei Wang, Shaoping Xu, Gustavo Gabriel Yannarelli, and Judith Mirian Zilberman.
Recipients for the COSEHC Travel Awards are Yanbin Dong, Kelly K. Parsons, Christine Walters.
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