About The Editor:

Alberto Nasjletti, MD, Professor of Pharmacology at New York Medical College in Valhalla, succeeds David Harder as Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, in January 2005.  Dr. Nasjletti earned an M.D. degree from the School of Medicine of Universidad Nacional de Cuyo of Mendoza, Argentina, in 1965.  He received postdoctoral training under the mentorship of Dr. J.C. Fasciolo in the Department of Pathophysiology at the School of Medicine of Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, and G.M.C. Masson at the Research Division of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio.  In 1971, he joined the faculty of the Department of Pharmacology of the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  Subsequently, in 1975, he was appointed Associate Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences in Memphis, and was promoted to Professor of Pharmacology in 1979.  He assumed his current position at New York Medical College in 1987.

Dr. Nasjletti is a member of the American Physiological Society since 1972.  He has served as Vice Chair, Chair and Immediate Past Chair of the American Heart Association Council for High Blood Pressure Research, as well as on various committees of the American Society of Hypertension and the Interamerican Society of Hypertension.  He was an Associate Editor of AJP-Heart and Circulatory Physiology and serves or has served on the Editorial Boards of Hypertension, the Journal of Hypertension, and the American Journal of Hypertension.  He also has served on various research review panels of the National Institutes of Health and the American Heart Association.

Dr. Nasjletti’s research focuses on the role played by vasoactive hormonal systems in the regulation of blood pressure in normotensive and hypertensive settings.  He has authored over 190 research papers, and has been funded continuously by the National Institutes of Health since 1973.  Dr. Nasjletti was awarded the Harry Goldblatt Award of the American Heart Association in 1987, and has presented the American Heart Association Lewis K. Dahl Memorial Lecture in 1996, the American Heart Association Arthur Curtis Corcoran Memorial Lecture in 1997, the Harold F. Hardman Lecture of the Medical College of Wisconsin in 2000, and the Mayerson-Di Luzio Lecture of Tulane University in 2004.

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