Biography
Director endocrinology, fellowship Madigan Army Medical Center, 1976-78; director, chief medicine and program director internal medicine residency program Eisenhower Army Medical Center, 1978-81, chairman directorate of clinical investigation, 1978-81, director endocrinology fellowship program; medical consultant Tuskegee VA Hospital, Alabama, 1985—; member national high blood pressure education committee NHLBI/NIH, National Diabetes Mellitus Adv. Council, National Diabetes Adv. Board, NHLBI working Committee on Hypertension and Diabetes; chairman Sub Committee Special Population and Situations, chairman subcom., executive committee Joint National Commission Detection Evaluation and Treatment of High Blood Pressure; diabetes epidemic action council Am. Diabetes Assn; member IOM/NAS Committee Medical Evaluation Vets. Disability Compensation, 2006-08.
Research Interest
Diabetes,Clinical Hypertension,Endocrinology & Metabolism.
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Robert J. Chilton
Associate Professor
The University of Texas Health Science Center
San Antonio, Texas
Biography
Robert J. Chilton, DO, is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at the Audie Murphy VA/University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. A fellow of the American College of Cardiology, American College of Physicians, American College of Osteopathic Internists, and American Heart Association, Dr. Chilton also chairs the Electrophysiology Board Examination for the American Osteopathic Association and presides over the San Antonio chapters of both the Cardiovascular Society and American Heart Association. Dr. Chilton received his Bachelor of Science degree from Philips University, Enid, Oklahoma, and his DO from the University of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery, Des Moines, Iowa. He completed his internship at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio; his residency at the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and a cardiology fellowship at the Wilford Hall United States Air Force Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas. Dr. Chilton is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, and electrophysiology. Over the past 20 years, Dr. Chilton has authored numerous articles, book chapters, abstracts, and presentations on cardiology. He has developed educational materials and has lectured widely, garnering several awards for his academic contributions, including 1994 Outstanding Teacher from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
Research Interest
Interventional Cardiology,Cardiology,Internal Medicine
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Venkat Gopalakrishnan
Professor and Head
University of Saskatchewan
Canada
Biography
Dr. Venkat Gopalakrishnan is a Professor and Head in the Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine in the University of Saskatchewan. His Academic Credentials includes B.Sc., Chemistry, M.Sc., Ph.D., in the University of Madras, India, His research includes Cellular and Subcellular Basis for the Vascular and Cardiac Actions of Peptides (arginine vasopressin, angiotensin II, endothelin and ghrelin). Studies involve characterization of Ca2+ signal transduction events regulated by peptides using: i) functional measurement of changes in tension responses of cardiac and vascular tissues, perfused vascular bed preparations (ii) receptor binding and receptor expression studies using primary cultures of neonatal rat cardiomyocytes, minimally passaged cultured rat vascular smooth muscle (VSM) cells and endothelial cells (EC), iii) agonist(s)-evoked changes in effector systems (measurement of IP3, cAMP, cGMP, cysteinyl leukotrienes and [Ca2+]i levels and protein kinase C activity), (iv) quantification of [Ca2+]i, changes in single cardiomyocyte, VSM cells and EC using imaging technique. The major focus is to examine the role of these peptides in both normal as well as experimental models of hypertension and diabetes mellitus
Research Interest
diabetes mellitus, hypertension, receptor binding and receptor expression studies,