Hypertension Curriculum
Introduction to the Hypertension Curriculum
Announcing a new educational alliance between the American Society of Hypertension, Inc. (ASH), Medscape and theheart.org to improve prevention, detection and management of hypertension. This collaboration is designed to educate all professionals treating patients with hypertension and associated disorders and is under the educational direction of a steering committee of top experts.
In this video highlight, Drs. Thomas D. Giles, Suzanne Oparil, and Henry R. Black introduce the launch of the Hypertension Curriculum on Medscape.
Conference Coverage
Mission Statement
- The mission of the American Society of Hypertension, Inc. (ASH) is to promote strategies to prevent hypertension and to improve the care of patients with hypertension and associated disorders.
Steering Committee
Jan N. Basile, MD, Chief, Primary Care Service Line, Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center, Charleston, South Carolina; Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine/Geriatrics, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston
Brent M. Egan, MD, Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston
William J. Elliott, MD, PhD, Professor of Preventive Medicine, Internal Medicine and Pharmacology, Rush Medical College, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois
Philip B. Gorelick, MD, MPH, FACP, John Garvin Professor and Head Director, Center for Stroke Research, Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation; University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Daniel Levy, MD, Director, Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts; Director, Center for Population Studies, University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland; Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
Donald G. Vidt, MD, Emeritus Chairman, Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
Ronald G. Victor, MD, Norman and Audrey Kaplan Chair in Hypertension, Dallas Heart Ball Chair in Hypertension and Heart Disease, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
Jackson T. Wright, Jr., MD, PhD, FACP, Professor of Medicine, Program Director, General Clinical Research Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; Director, Clinical Hypertension Program University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio; Chief, Case Western Reserve University Hypertension Section, Louis Stokes VAMC, Cleveland, Ohio