Franz Messerli

Division of Cardiology, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, United States of America

Franz Messerli is Medical Director of the Division of Research and the Hypertension Program of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center. He is also former Director of clinical hypertension and staff member of the Ochsner Clinic Foundation in New Orleans.

His research focuses on hypertensive cardiovascular disease. Professor Messerli serves on the Cardiorenal Advisory Committee of the FDA and Joint National Committee (JNCVI) and has served on the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute's Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure. He is a founding member of the Council on Geriatric Cardiology and the American Society of Hypertension. He has also been awarded honorary membership of the Southern African Hypertension Society, the Brazilian Society of Cardiology and the Bulgarian Society of Cardiology and is an honorary Fellow of the Philippine College of Physicians.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Section Head: Cardiovascular Disorders > Hypertension (since 16 November 2005)

Franz Messerli is a Section Head for Hypertension, part of the CARDIOVASCULAR DISORDERS Faculty. The role of a Section Head is to work with their Co-Section Head(s) to divide the Section (sub-specialty area) into its component areas of research, nominate leaders in those areas as Faculty Members, and offer ongoing oversight of the content within their Section. They are not asked to evaluate articles, although we do, of course, welcome them.