KENNETH A. JAMERSON, MD
ISHIB President
University of Michigan Medical Center
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Dr. Jamerson received his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he also completed his residency in Internal Medicine and Fellowship in Hypertension. Currently, he is Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and serves as Medical Director of the Program for Multicultural Health at the University of Michigan Health Systems.
Dr. Jamerson has served as coordinator and principal investigator for numerous multi-center clinical trials nationally and internationally sponsored by the NIH and industry. His current basic research addresses the role of sympathetic tone on the metabolism of glucose in human skeletal muscle. His current clinical research focuses on hypertensive nephropathy.
Dr. Jamerson has authored a number of scientific articles, several of which resulted from the study of a cohort of patients in a rural Michigan community (The Tecumseh Blood Pressure Study). Dr. Jamerson has presented his research both nationally and internationally. He is actively involved in research under NHLBI grants and serves as a peer-reviewer for several prominent journals and study sections for American Heart and the NIH. He is the recipient of several awards in community service and teaching.
Dr. Jamerson is the recipient of the ISHIB Distinguished Researcher Award and, in 1999. Dr. Jamerson served as the co-chair for ISHIB2005: The 20th Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference on Hypertension and Related Cardiovascular Risk Factors Among Ethnic Populations held in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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