Faculty Biographies and Disclosures

Suzanne Oparil, MD

Dr. Oparil is professor of medicine and physiology & biophysics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is also director of the Vascular Biology and Hypertension Program in the Division of Cardiovascular Disease at UAB. She is a clinical cardiologist who is also interested in the fundamental mechanisms of cardiovascular disease and in using the information to develop new treatments. She has made a number of discoveries with a major clinical impact including observations that led to the development of ACE inhibitors. Dr. Oparil graduated from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York where she was first in her class. She trained at Columbia-Presbyterian and Massachusetts General Hospitals. She joined the faculty at UAB in 1977. Previously, she was an associate professor of medicine at the University of Chicago. Dr. Oparil was the first woman president of the American Federation for Clinical Research, the worlds largest clinical research organization. She has also held leadership roles in the Institute of Medicine, the American Academies of Science, the Association of American Physicians and the American Society for Clinical Investigation. She is the editor of Hypertension, the leading textbook of clinical and experimental hypertension