Raymond Townsend

General Clinical Research Center, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, United States of America

Raymond R. Townsend, MD

Academic positions:
- Professor of Medicine
- Associate Director of General Clinical Research Center, University of Pennsylvania
- Director of the Penn Center for the Assessment & Treatment of Complex Hypertension (PennCATCH).

All industry positions (in last five years):
None declared

Research interests:
He is currently a Principal Investigator in a 7-center study to evaluate the role of demographic, humoral and genetic factors in the progression of kidney disease and the development and progression of cardiovascular disease in patients with chronic kidney disease. He is the P.I. of an grant evaluating the specific role of pulse wave velocity in the renal and cardiovascular consequences of chronic kidney disease. He collaborates with Dr. Karen Teff (PhD) evaluating the role of the parasympathetic nervous system in insulin sensitivity, and the effects of glucose on novel humoral regulators of appetite and metabolism, including leptin, pancreatic polypeptide and gherelin. His clinical interests are in hypertension and metabolism.

Any other information:
He is a Fellow of the American Heart Association and a Fellow of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Nephrology > Hemodynamics, Vasc. Biology & Hypertension Sec. to Kidney Dis. (since 15 November 2005)

Links

http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/renal/index.html

All recent recommendations

• 9.0
  Central pressure: variability and impact of cardiovascular risk factors: the Anglo-Cardiff Collaborative Trial II.
  Recommended by Raymond Townsend
  
• 4.8
  A prospective study of the prevalence of primary aldosteronism in 1,125 hypertensive patients.
  Recommended by Raymond Townsend, Robert Dluhy
  
• 6.0
  Loss of angiotensin-converting enzyme-2 leads to the late development of angiotensin II-dependent glomerulosclerosis.
  Recommended by Raymond Townsend
  
• 8.0
  Feasibility of treating prehypertension with an angiotensin-receptor blocker.
  Recommended by Rajiv Agarwal, Raymond Townsend