Dr. David B. Harrison, 36th Annual Summer Medical Research Day Keynote Speaker
 Dr. David Harrison is the Bernard Marcus Professor of Medicine and Director of Cardiology at Emory University School of Medicine. He received his M.D. degree from the University of Oklahoma, and obtained his house staff and clinical cardiology training at Duke University. Dr. Harrison completed a cardiovascular research fellowship at the University of Iowa. He joined the faculty at the University of Iowa in the Department of Medicine and was later promoted to Associate Professor. In 1990, Dr. Harrison was appointed as Professor of Medicine in the Cardiology Division at Emory University. In addition to serving as Director of Cardiology at Emory University, he has also served as the Director of Cardiology at both Iowa City and Atlanta VA hospitals.
Dr. Harrison has been devoted to basic research related to vascular function, the practice of cardiology, and the education of young physicians. Dr. Harrison has been an Established Investigator of the American Heart Association and has served on numerous committees for the AHA, including the AHA Scientific Sessions Planning Committee, the AHA Research Committee, the Novartis Award Committee, the American Society of Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, and the Credentialing Committee for the Council on Circulation, which he chaired. In addition, he has served as chairman of the American Heart Association Council on Circulation, the National Institutes of Health Experimental Cardiovascular Studies Section (ECS). Dr. Harrison has also served on the editorial boards of multiple journals, including Circulation, Circulation Research, Atherosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology, the Journal of Clinical Investigation and Hypertension. Dr. Harrison has given numerous invited and named lectures related to his research, including the Robert Furchgott Lecture for the 8th Symposium on Mechanisms, Robert M. Berne Distinguished Lecture to the American Physiology Society, and the Sir George Pickering Lecture to British Hypertension Society Annual Scientific Meeting. In 2004, Dr. Harrison received the Novartis Award from the American Heart Association Council on High Blood Pressure, which is the highest award presented for hypertension research. Dr. Harrison’s seminar is entitled, “Inflammation, Adaptive Immunity and Hypertension” and the lecture is on Friday, July 31, 2009 at 11 a.m. in the Medical Sciences Building Auditorium. Research Day will begin at 9:00 a.m. with the oral presentations and the poster presentations at 12 noon in the COM Conference Room. The application deadline is May 1, 2010. Applicants will be notified of acceptance by May 7, 2010.  (From left to right) Dr. Robert Barrington, Department of Microbiology and Immunology sponsored Amber Bartlett (“RASGRP1-dependent autoantibody production in murine lupus”), freshman medical student and 2009 Clyde Huggins Oral Presenter Recipient, Luke Wiggins (“Role of matrix metalloproteinases in coronary collateral growth”), sophomore medical student and 2009 Clyde Huggins Poster Presenter Recipient, and his sponsor, Dr. Petra Rocic, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and the Student Research Committee Chair, Dr. Joseph Brewer, Department of Microbiology and Immunology. Both recipients were awarded the Clyde Huggins Research Day plaque and a cash award. |
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