The International Society of Hypertension Podcast

In celebration of the Women in Hypertension Research Awards, in this podcast Dr Augusto Montezano and Dr Karla Neves interview Prof Empar Lurbe, the recipient of the 2021 ISH Honour for Senior Women Researchers. Prof Lurbe is a specialist in Pediatrics and Nephrology, the Head of the Department of Pediatrics, University General Hospital Valencia, Spain, and Professor of Pediatrics.  

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In celebration of the Women in Hypertension Research Awards, in this podcast Dr Augusto Montezano and Dr Karla Neves interview A/Prof Francine Marques, the recipient of the 2021 ISH Mid-Career Award for Women Researchers. A/Prof Marques is a laboratory head, Viertel Foundation and Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellow at Monash University, Australia. At the ISH, she chairs the Mentoring and Training Committee.  

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In the latest podcast, we had the pleasure to interview Dr Norman R.C. Campbell, a Professor Emeritus of the University of Calgary, Canada, where he served as professor of Medicine, Community Health Sciences and Physiology and Pharmacology.

Professor Campbell served as President of the World Hypertension League. 

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In the latest podcast, we had the pleasure to interview Dr Satoko Nakamura, an MD and PhD in medicine from Osaka City University, Japan. She has been conducting medical treatment and clinical research on hypertension, kidney diseases, and cardiovascular diseases at the National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center for about 25 years. She is a board member of the Japanese Society of Hypertension, where she chairs the Diversity and Inclusion committee and is a councillor of the Japanese Society of Nephrology. 

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In the latest podcast, we had the pleasure to interview Dr Brandi Wynne, who is an emerging leader in hypertension and an Assistant Professor in Internal Medicine in the Division of Nephrology & Hypertension at the University of Utah, the USA.

In the International Society of Hypertension, she chairs the New Investigator Committee. She is also the chair of the Trainee Advocacy Committee of the American Heart Association Hypertension Council.

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To start 2022, we had the pleasure to interview Dr Tazeen Jafar. Dr Jafar is a Professor of Health Services and Systems Research at Duke-NUS Medical School, in Singapore, a Visiting Consultant of Renal Medicine at Singapore General Hospital, Visiting Professor of Medicine, Aga Khan University, Pakistan, Adjunct Professor of Nephrology, Tufts Medical Center, USA, and Research Professor at Duke Global Health Institute, Durham, USA.

At the ISH, she is part of the Research and Education Committee, leading the Lead ISH College of Experts.

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In the latest podcast from the International Society of Hypertension (ISH), A/Prof Francine Marques interviews Professor Bryan Williams, a clinician-scientist, chair of medicine at University College London (UCL) and director of the National Institute for Health Research UCLH Biomedical Research Centre and director of research at UCLH. He is past-Chairman of the European Council on Hypertension of the European Society of Cardiology, past-President of the British Hypertension Society, and current Secretary of the ISH.

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Today we talk with Professor Marisol Fernandez-Alfonso, a Professor of Pharmacology and Research Director of the Group for the Study of Cardiometabolic Health (GESCAMET) at the Instituto Pluridisciplinar and Departamento de Farmacología, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain. She is a member of the International Society of Hypertension Women in Hypertension Research Committee and the Executive Committee of the European Council for Cardiovascular Research.  

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Today we talk with Professor Neil Poulter. Neil is a Professor of Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine at the Imperial College London, past president of the British Hypertension Society and the International Society. Prof Poulter is the Chief Investigator of the May Measurement Month, an annual global blood pressure screening campaign initiated by the International Society of Hypertension.

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Today we talk with Dr Tiny Masupe, a clinician-scientist, senior lecturer and assistant program director for the Master of Medicine (MMed) Public Health at the University of Botswana (UB). She has a Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery (MBBCh) from Cardiff UK, Master’s in Public Health from South Africa, Master of Science in Occupational Medicine from Manchester UK and currently a PhD fellow in Non-Communicable Diseases focusing on type 2 diabetes and hypertension at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. She is the first recipient of the Neil Nathanson AfyaBora Global Health leadership award. Within the International Society of Hypertension (ISH), Dr Masupe is a national leader for the May Measurement Month Hypertension and is a member of the ISH Research and Education Committee.

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