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Shawna Nesbitt, MD
Associate Professor
Contact Information
UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390
shawna.nesbitt@utsouthwestern.edu
To make an appointment, call 214-645-8300.
Biography
Shawna D. (Smith) Nesbitt, M.D., M.S., is an Associate Professor in Internal Medicine-Hypertension at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. She serves as the Medical Director of the Parkland Hypertension Clinic. Her research interests include clinical trials and epidemiology of hypertension and cardiovascular risk. Her area of research is hypertension in African Americans, insulin resistance, and hyperlipidemia. Dr. Nesbitt is the National Coordinator for the TROPHY Study (Trial of Prevention Hypertension). The study is a 4-year trial which includes over 71 sites and more than 800 patients. She is funded by the National Institutes of Health to study the relationship of oxidative stress and genetics in the development of hypertension. She is the secretary treasurer for the International Society of Hypertension in Blacks (ISHIB). She is also Chairperson of the ?Children Are Our Messengers? Initiative sponsored that organization. She is also Director of Cohort Follow-up for the Dallas Heart Study, funded by the Donald Reynolds Foundation. Dr. Nesbitt is a Fellow of the American Heart Association and the Council for High Blood Pressure Research. She also serves as an Advisory Panel member for the Red Dress Campaign sponsored by the National Institutes of Health.
Education
| University | University of Michigan, School of Public Health (1999) |
| Fellowship | University of Michigan Hospitals & Health Centers (1992) |
| Residency | Allegheny General Hospital (1991) |
| Internship | Allegheny General Hospital (1989) |
| University | Gannon University (1988) |
| University | Hahnemann University College of Medicine (1988) |
Research Interests
Publications
Julius S, Nesbitt SD, Brook R , in Oparil S, Weber M (ed), Hypertension: A Companion to Brenner and Rector's "The Kidney" , 2000; (Chapter 42):398-404
Nesbitt S, Baganz M , In: Crute S (ed), Health and Healing for African Americans. Pennsylvania, Rodale Press, Inc. , 1997; (1st ed.):428-433
Nesbitt SD, Amerena JV, Grant E, Jamerson KA, Lu H, Weder A, Julius S , Am J Hypertens , 1997; (10(11)):1270-1280
Smith [Nesbitt] S, Julius S, Jamerson K, Amerena J, Schork N , J Hypertens , 1994; (12(4)):455-462
Nesbitt, S , Ethn & Dis , Summer 2002; (12(3)):320-321
Skov K, Julius S, Nesbitt S, Mulvany MJ , Curr Opin Cardiol , July 2002; (17(4)):380-384
Palatini P, Tikhonoff V, Krause L, Amerena J, Nesbitt S, et al. , J Hypertens , July 2002; (19(7)):1217-1222
Nesbitt SD, Julius S , Curr Hypertens Reports , 2000; (2(4)):356-361
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Honors/Awards
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