Ronald G. Victor, MD
Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal
   Medicine
Chief, Division of Hypertension
Norman and Audrey Kaplan Chair in Hypertension
Dallas Heart Ball Chair in Hypertension and Heart
   Disease
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas

Ronald G. Victor, MD, is Professor of Internal Medicine and Chief of the Hypertension Division at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Southwestern Medical School. He also holds the Norman and Audrey Kaplan Chair in Hypertension at Dallas Southwestern Medical Center and is Co-Director of the Donald W. Reynolds Cardiovascular Clinical Research Center. He received his MD from Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana. He completed his internal medicine residency at the University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and his cardiology fellowship at Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina.  He also completed a cardiovascular research fellowship at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine in Iowa City. 

Dr Victor is a member of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and the American Heart Association and is a counselor in the Association of University Cardiologists. He is also a former Secretary of the American Society for Hypertension. Dr Victor’s research focuses on neural mechanisms of hypertension in special populations, including hypertension in African Americans and patients with chronic renal failure. Other research interests include cocaine-induced cardiovascular toxicity, cyclosporine-induced hypertension, metabolic modulation of adrenergic receptor signaling, and, more recently, health services research. Dr Victor has authored over 100 scientific journal articles.