Carlos M. Ferrario, MD
Dewitt-Cordell Professor of Surgical Sciences
Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology
Director, The Hypertension and Vascular Disease Center
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Carlos M. Ferrario, MD, is a graduate of the University of Buenos Aires Medical
School. He pursued postgraduate training in cardiology at the University of
Goteborg and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.
Dr. Ferrario is a past chair of the Department of Brain and Vascular Research
of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and in 1992, he assumed the directorship
of the Hypertension and Vascular Disease Center of the Wake Forest University
School of Medicine, a multidisciplinary effort dedicated to the treatment, prevention
and research of high blood pressure and vascular disease. This clinical research
center has become the coordinating organization of a regional effort to reduce
the excess morbidity and mortality of cardiovascular diseases.
Dr. Ferrario has published more than 380 papers and two books and has sustained
an uninterrupted record of funding from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
of the NIH. He is a former Established Investigator and the recipient of the
Harry Goldblatt Award from the American Heart Association. In 1998, Dr. Ferrario
was presented with the Ignacio Chaves Centennial Gold Medal of Honor by the
National University of Mexico. He is the 1999 recipient of the prestigious Wake
Forest University School of Medicine Established Investigator in Clinical Science
award. And in 2001, he received the Robert Tigerstedt Award from the American
Society of Hypertension for his discoveries in the field of hypertension research.
Dr. Ferrario is past president of the Inter-American Society of Hypertension,
and a 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. The AHA Journal of Hypertension counted him
as both guest and consultant editor, and as a member of the editorial board.
He was the founding editor of the newsletter for the Council of High Blood Pressure
Research of AHA; and a member of the editorial boards of Hypertension, Circulation,
American Journal of Physiology, Clinical and Experimental Hypertension,
the Spanish Journal of Hypertension and Japan's Journal of Hypertension
Research. Current appointments include membership in the Joint National
Commission (JNC-VI) of the National High Blood Pressure Education Program of
the NHLBI, chairman of the Professional Education Committee of the Council for
High Blood Pressure Research, and current chair of the NIH Review Panel for
Specialized Centers of Research in the Genetics of Hypertension.
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