Hypertension

BIOGRAPHY

Luis Ruilope is Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at Complutense University, Madrid, and Head of the Hypertension Unit at 12 de Octubre Hospital, Madrid.His research focuses on hypertension and the kidney.He is International Fellow of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research and of the Council of the Kidney in CV disease of the AHA and Actual President of the Spanish Hypertension Society. He is Member of the Editorial Boards of Journal of Hypertension, Blood Pressure, Medicina Clínica, Hypertension, Journal of Human Hypertension, Journal American Society of Nephrology and Nephrology, Dialysis & Transplantation. He is also Associate Editor of Current Hypertension Report and Member of the Steering Committee of the following Studies HOT, INSIGHT, SCOPE, CONVINCE, ROADMAP, ASCEND, and European coordinator of the study IDNT.