CLARENCE E. GRIM, MD, FACP, FACC
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Dr. Grim is Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Director of the High Blood Pressure Diagnosis and Treatment Center at St. Michael Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
In 1987, Dr. Grim, while Professor of Medicine in Residence and director of the Hypertension Research Center at UCLA and the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science at the Martin Luther King Jr. Hospital in Watts, was the first to advance the hypothesis that the greater prevalence of high blood pressure in Western Hemisphere Blacks is related to survival of the fittest during slavery for the ability to store salt and survive the killing salt depleting conditions that led to death during slavery.
In 1991, Dr. Grim received a Preventive Cardiology Academic Award from NIH while at Drew and UCLA. There he led the team that has revolutionized the training of medical students in accurate blood pressure measurements that has now been incorporated into the teaching programs at UCLA and the Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr. Grim’s team is leading an effort to require that all who take blood pressure must undergo initial training and documentation that they can heart well enough to do this accurately and to require intermittent retesting throughout a lifetime of practice. “If this is not done patients will die prematurely because their high blood pressure was not detected and treated,” says Dr. Grim.
Dr. Grim lectures and conducts discussion groups at churches, businesses and schools. In addition, Dr. Grim is the key medical resource and participant for two web based hypertension health education groups.
Dr. Grim has directed or been an integral part of research teams that have had a number of “firsts” in the areas of epidemiology, physiology, blood pressure measurement, genetics, pharmacology and community interventions.
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