Endocrine & Metabolic Pharmacology

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
• David A Harrison III Distinguished Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine
• University Professor, University of Virginia
• Dean, Emeritus, University of Virginia School of Medicine
• Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine

EDUCATION:
• Lafayette High School, Lexington, Kentucky 1954-1958
• BS University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 1962
• MD Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, 1965

HONORS AND AWARDS:
• Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society
• Fellow of the American College of Physicians (1973)
• Fellow of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research (1975)
• Established Investigator, American Heart Association (1975-80)
• President, American Heart Association Virginia Affiliate (1979-80)
• Distinguished Service Award, American Heart Association/Virginia Affiliate (1980)
• Elected Member, American Society for Clinical Investigation (1980)
• Elected Member, American Clinical and Climatological Association (1982)
• Attending Physician of the Year Award, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Virginia Medical Center (1983-84)
• Edward Rose Lecture, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (1984)
• Elected Member, Association of American Physicians (1985)
• Member, Subspecialty Board of Endocrinology and Metabolism, American Board of Internal Medicine (1985‑1990)
• Bley Stein Visiting Professor in Endocrinology, University of Southern California (1987)
• Hall of Fame (Charter Member), Lafayette High School, Lexington, Kentucky, at Golden Anniversary Celebration of the School (1989)
• President of the Symposium: Dopamine and Hypertension, International Society of Hypertension (1990)
• Elected Member, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences (1992)
• Distinguished Alumnus Award, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (1994)
• Walter Reed Distinguished Achievement Award, University of Virginia Medical Alumni Association (1996)
• Doctor Honoris Causa, Federal University of Ceara, Forteleza, Brazil (1998)
• Co-moderator, National Center for Research Resources Scientific Planning Forum 1997 (with Louis W Sullivan and Joshua Lederberg)
• Doctoral (PhD) Thesis Opponent, Ulla Holtback, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden (1998)
• State-of-the-Art Lecture, Council for High Blood Pressure Research (1999)
• Richard Underwood Memorial Visiting Lecture, Harvard Medical School (2000)
• Hall of Distinguished Alumni, University of Kentucky (2000)
• Master of the American College of Physicians (2000)
• Lifetime Achievement Award, Consortium of Southeastern Hypertension Control (2000)
• Distinguished Achievement Award, The New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center Alumni Council (2000)
• Fellow of the American Physiological Society (Cardiovascular Section) (2001)
• Irvine Page-Alva Bradley Lifetime Achievement Award, Council for High Blood Pressure Research, American Heart Association (2001)
• Fellow of the American Heart Association (2001)
• President, American Clinical and Climatological Association (2001-02)
• Honorary Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Medical Humanities, University of Virginia School of Medicine (2002)
• Honorary Citation by the Honorable Mark R Warner, Governor of Virginia (2002)
• Dean Robert M Carey Award (given each year to a member of the second year class for leadership), University of Virginia School of Medicine (first award 2003)
• Thomas Jefferson Award, University of Virginia (the University’s highest award) (2003)
• Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (2004)
• Laureate Award, American College of Physicians (Virginia Chapter) (2004)
• Chair, Council for High Blood Pressure Research, American Heart Association (2004-06)
• Commendation by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Joint House and Senate Joint Resolution No. 98 (2004)
• Frank and Sheila Thompson Lecture, Texas A & M University College of Medicine (2005)
• Distinguished Physician Award, The Endocrine Society (2005)
• Best Doctors in America (2005-06; 2007-08; 2009-10; 2011-12)
• America’s Top Physicians, Consumer’s Research Council of America (2006, 2007, 2009, 2010)
• Carey, Marshall and Thorner Scholar’s Day, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia (2006-present)
• Award of Excellence in Education, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia (2007)
• Emory Wilson Dean’s Distinguished Lecture, University of Kentucky College of Medicine (2007)
• Special Plenary Lecture, 80th Annual Congress of the Japanese Endocrine Society (2007)
• American Heart Association Scientific Councils Distinguished Achievement Award (2008)
• Beverly Towery Lecture, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville (2008)
• John and Meredith Oates Distinguished Lecture, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (2008)
• President, The Endocrine Society (2008-09)
• Robert Tigerstedt Distinguished Scientist Award, American Society of Hypertension (2009)
• National Institutes of Health Distinguished Editorial Board (2009)
• Opening Plenary Lecture, 33rd Annual Congress of the Italian Endocrine Society (2009)
• Nachum and Bertha Mizney Memorial Lecture, Sir Mortimer B Davis – Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (2009)
• USA Today Qforma Most Influential Doctors (2009)
• Plenary Lecture, Chinese Endocrine Society, Dalian, China (2010)
• Plenary Lecture (Year-in-the-Adrenal), The Endocrine Society, Boston (2011)
• Best Doctors in Virginia and Washington, DC, Virginia Living, 2011

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
An internationally recognized leader in endocrinology, Dr Carey has focused his clinical interest in cardiovascular and renal endocrinology and his research on the hormonal control of blood pressure and hypertension. Major discoveries include the identification and characterization of the intrarenal renin-angiotensin system as an independent tissue hormonal system, the expression and function of the dopamine D1-like receptor family and the angiotensin type-2 (AT2) receptor and the role of renal cyclic GMP in the control of sodium excretion and blood pressure. Dr Carey documented the first case of ectopic corticotropin releasing factor as a cause of Cushing's syndrome.