Renal, Fluid & Electrolyte Physiology

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. David Pollock earned his Ph.D. degree in Physiology from the University of Cincinnati in 1983. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He then spent two years as a Senior Scientist at the Institute for Circadian Physiology at Harvard University in Boston before taking a position in the Drug Discovery division of Abbott Laboratories in Chicago. In 1995, he accepted a position as an Assistant Professor in the Vascular Biology Center at the Medical College of Georgia where he has risen to the rank of Regents’ Professor. He also holds positions in the Departments of Surgery, Physiology, and Pharmacology & Toxicology. He is a fellow of the American Heart Association and the American Society of Nephrology and currently serves as Program Director of a pre-doctoral training grant by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute.

Dr. Pollock's research is related to the control of sodium excretion and the role of the kidney in blood pressure regulation. He has had a long-standing interest in natriuretic factors and has been actively involved in elucidating the actions of endothelin. His research has helped to elucidate the opposing actions of endothelin A versus endothelin B receptors in both renal vasculature and the tubular system. Recent studies from his lab have suggested that defects in the endothelin B receptor system contribute to salt-dependent hypertension. His research has been supported for many years by several grants from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute and the American Heart Association.

Dr. Pollock has held several offices within the American Physiological Society, most recently as an APS Councilor. Dr. Pollock serves on the editorial board of 7 journals including Associate Editor for the American Journal of Physiology: Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology and Vascular Pharmacology as well as Editor of the renal section of Comprehensive Physiology.