Daniel T. Lackland is Professor, and Director of Graduate Training and Education in the Department of Biometry and Epidemiology, and the Division of Cardiology at the Medical University of South Carolina. He received his doctorate degree in cardiovascular epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh. The current president of the Mid-Atlantic Affiliate of the American Heart Association, he also serves on the AHA Stroke Council Leadership Committee, and Research Council. He is the past-chairman of the South Carolina Stroke Task Force, Tri-State Stroke Network, and is the immediate past president of the Carolinas-Georgia Chapter of the American Society of Hypertension . He is the recipient of the 2002 Excellence in Leadership award from the Consortium for Southeastern Hypertension Control. Much of his research interest involves the population risk assessment of cardiovascular disease, stroke and hypertension. In particular, his work focuses on the factors associated with the racial disparity in disease, and the geographic patterns of disease through the assessment of the data and tissue samples from the Charleston Heart Study and Evans County Heart Study. He is currently collaborating with Professor David Barker at the Medical Research Council with a study of the fetal origin of hypertension-related diseases and endothelial function. He is the principal investigator for the NIH-funded Black Pooling Project that is assessing the disparities in cardiovascular diseases and hypertension. In addition to these epidemiological investigations, he is involved in population high blood pressure control efforts. He is involved with an assessment of the quality of hypertension treatment and control in the SC Medicaid population. He serves on the boards of the Hypertension Initiative and the Diabetes of South Carolina, American Heart Association (Mid-Atlantic Affiliate), Consortium for Southeastern Hypertension Control (COSEHC), and Commun-I-Care. He serves on the editorial boards of Hypertension, Journal of Clinical Hypertension, Ethnicity and Disease, and Preventive Medicine. He also leads blood pressure and risk factor screening activities at sporting events in the Southeast, and is a consultant for high blood pressure control programs in Latin America and central Asia. |
