About the editors

Editors

Editor-in-Chief:
M.H. Alderman, MD
Dr. Alderman graduated from Harvard College and the Yale School of Medicine, did post graduate work in Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and completed his Residency in Internal Medicine at the Cornell Medical School - New York Hospital. He is Board qualified in Internal Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. His academic career began at Cornell Medical School (1968-85) where he became Professor of Medicine and Public Health. He then chaired the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (1985-1998), where he remains as Professor. His research has primarily involved Clinical Epidemiologic studies to identify determinants of cardiovascular events in successfully treated participants in a Worksite Hypertension Program he initiated in 1973. He has largely focused on the relation of the renin angiotensin system and sodium intake to cardiovascular health. Dr. Alderman is a past President of the American Society of Hypertension (1996-8) and the International Society of Hypertension (2004-6). He is a member of the Association of American Physicians and succeeded John H. Laragh, founding Editor, as Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Hypertension in 2007.

Co-Executive Editors:
J.D. Blumenfeld, MD
Dr. Blumenfeld is the Director of Hypertension and of The Susan R. Knafel Polycystic Kidney Disease Center at The Rogosin Institute, Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical College, and Attending in Medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and at The Rockefeller University Hospital. He is a member of the Advisory Committee for Clinical and Translational Science (ACCTS), the governing body of the Rockefeller University Center for Clinical and Translational Science. His research activities are focused on polycystic kidney disease and hypertension and have been published in peer reviewed journals and standard textbooks of hypertension, nephrology, and urology. Dr. Blumenfeld holds an MD degree from Yale University and completed his Fellowship in Nephrology at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

C.T. Stier, Jr., PhD
Dr. Stier is an Associate Professor of Pharmacology at New York Medical College in Valhalla, New York. He earned his PhD in Pharmacology from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University in 1978. He received his postdoctoral training in kidney micropuncture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under the mentorship of Carl Gottschalk, MD, and William Arendshorst, PhD. Dr. Stier's research activities have been supported by grants from the NIH, the American Heart Association, and the pharmaceutical industry. He has published over 60 papers on various vascular and renal mechanisms relevant to the control of blood pressure in normotensive and hypertensive settings. Dr. Stier has gained international recognition for establishing that pharmacological interventions that interfere with the activity of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system protect against development of end organ damage in stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats, via a mechanism that does not depend on lowering blood pressure. Dr. Stier is a Fellow of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research of the American Heart Association and a member of many scientific organizations. Dr. Stier also has served on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Hypertension and currently is a member of the Editorial Board of Cardiovascular Drug Reviews.

Statistical Editor: H.W. Cohen, MPH, DrPH
Dr. Cohen is Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Columbia University. An active researcher in the field of hypertension and cardiovascular disease for over twenty-five years and with interests in a variety of areas of public health, Dr. Cohen has published over 65 peer-reviewed articles. In addition to pursuing several ongoing research projects, Dr. Cohen serves as Biostatistician for Einstein's General Clinical Research Center and teaches biostatistics in Einstein's Clinical Research Training Program.

Corresponding Editors:
T. Fujita
G. Mancia
J. Menard
J. Sowers

Managing Editor:
Y.P. Raiford

CURRENT EDITORIAL BOARD:
E. Agabiti-Rosei, Brescia, Italy
W.J. Arendshorst, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
A. Aviv, Newark, NJ, USA
L. Beilin, Perth, Australia
G. Bianchi, Milan, Italy
M.D. Blaufox, Bronx, NY, USA
H.R. Brunner, Lausanne, Switzerland
V.M. Buckalew, Jr., Winston Salem, NC, USA
V.M. Campese, Los Angeles, CA, USA
O.A. Carretero, Detroit, MI, USA
R. Cooper, Chicago, IL, USA
J. de Champlain, Montreal, Canada
P.W. de Leeuw, Maastricht, The Netherlands
G. Desimone, Naples, Italy
R.B. Devereux, New York, NY, USA
A. Dominiczak, Glasgow, Scotland
B.M. Egan, Charleston, SC, USA
M. Epstein, Miami, FL, USA
B. Falkner, Philadelphia, PA, USA
J. Flynn, Seattle, WA, USA
W.H. Frishman, New York, NY, USA
C. Furberg, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
H. Gavras, Boston, MA, USA
I. Gavras, Boston, MA, USA
J.P. Granger, Jackson, MS, USA
G. Grassi, Milan, Italy
S. Haffner, San Antonio, TX, USA
J.E. Hall, Jackson, MS, USA
S.B. Harrap, Victoria, Australia
T. Inagami, Nashville, TN, USA
K. Kario, Tochigi, Japan
S. Kjeldsen, Oslo, Norway
T. Kotchen, Milwaukie, WI, USA
T. Kurtz, San Francisco, CA, USA
J.M. LaLouel, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
S. Laurent, Paris, France
F. Leenen, Canada
L.H. Lindholm, Umea, Sweden
G.Y.H. Lip, Burmingham, UK
A.G. Logan, Toronto, ON, Canada
G. London, Saint Genvieve de Bois, France
F.C. Luft, Berlin, Germany
T.A. Morgan, Victoria, Australia
A. Morganti, Milan, Italy
A. Nasjletti, Valhalla, NY, USA
L.G. Navar, New Orleans, LA, USA
T. Ogihara, Osaka, Japan
M.F. O'Rourke, Darlinghurst, Australia
G. Paolisso, Naples, Italy
H. Pratt, Indianapolis, IN, USA
B.M. Psaty, Seattle, WA, USA
T.L. Reudelhuber, Montreal, Canada
C. Rosendorff, Bronx, NY, USA
M. Safar, Paris, France
T. Saruta, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
E.L. Schiffrin, Montreal, Canada
G. Schillaci, Perugia, Italy
R.E. Schmieder, Nurnberg, Germany
J.E. Sealey, New York, NY, USA
D. Sica, Richmond, VA, USA
A. Sinaiko, Minneapolis, MN, USA
J.A. Staessen, Leuven, Belgium
G.S. Stergiou, Athens, Greece
J. Tremblay, Montreal, Canada
M. Tuck, Sepulveda, CA, USA
T. Unger, Berlin, Germany
B. Williams, UK
M. Volpe, Rome, Italy
A.B. Weder, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
W.B. White, Farmington, CT, USA