Ronald G. Victor, MD, is Professor of Internal Medicine and Chief of the Hypertension Division of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
Dr. Victor was graduated summa cum laude from Cornell University in 1974 and received his medical degree in 1978 from Tulane University. He completed his Internal Medicine Residency in 1981 at the University of California Los Angeles and his Cardiology Fellowship at Duke University in 1984. He completed a special cardiovascular research fellowship at the University of Iowa in 1985 and then joined the faculty at UT Southwestern as an Assistant Professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure in 1990 and to Professor in 1997. He is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, and the Association of University Cardiologists for which he currently serves as secretary/treasurer. He is a member of the executive committee for the American Society of Hypertension for which he currently serves as secretary.
Dr. Victor's research focuses on neural mechanisms of hypertension and hypertension in special populations including African Americans and patients with chronic renal failure. Other research interests include obesity-related hypertension, cocaine-induced cardiovascular toxicity, cyclosporine-induced hypertension and metabolic modulation of adrenergic receptor signaling.
Dr. Victor has authored over 100 articles and book chapters, inlcuding the chapter on Arterial Hypertension in the upcoming edition of Cecil's Textbook of Medicine.
