ASH Marvin Moser Clinical Hypertension Award

The American Society of Hypertension is pleased to announce the recipient of the First ASH Marvin Moser Clinical Hypertension Award. This award recognizes a qualified Hypertension Clinician for his or her dedication to the treatment and care of hypertensive patients.

The 2010 Award will be presented during the ASH Twenty-Fifth Annual Scientific Meeting during the Awards Plenary Session, to be held on Monday, May 3rd, 2010.

2009 Award Winner

Domenic A. Sica, MD
Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology
Chairman, Section of Clinical Pharmacology and Hypertension
Division of Nephrology
Virginia Commonwealth University Health System

Dr. Domenic Sica is a Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology at the Medical College of Virginia of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia where he also serves as the Chairman of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Hypertension. Dr. Sica completed his undergraduate training at Fordham University and subsequently obtained his medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia. Thereafter, he completed his medicine training at the Medical College of Virginia and a three-year nephrology fellowship at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. Dr. Sica returned on faculty at the Medical College of Virginia in 1981 where he currently holds the aforementioned appointments. Dr. Sica is board certified in medicine, nephrology, hypertension, and clinical pharmacology. Dr. Sica has published extensively in the area(s) of hypertension, renal disease, and drug pharmacokinetics with over 650 abstracts, publications, and chapters to his credit. He is the co-editor of the recently published second edition of the text Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapeutics. He is also a Senior Editor for the Hypertension Primer, which is the primary publication of the American Heart Association on the topic of hypertension.

Dr. Sica's research areas of interest include the pharmacotherapy of hypertension, cardiovascular risk factors in adolescent African-Americans, circadian variation in disease states, the pharmacokinetics of drugs in renal failure, as well as the role of the renin-angiotensin axis in disease state presentation and/or progression. Dr. Sica has been extensively involved in a service and leadership capacity with a number of the nephrology, clinical pharmacology, and hypertension organizations. He currently is on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Hypertension and is immediate Past-President of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the American Society of Hypertension.

Dr. Sica has several times been awarded the Best Teaching Attending award by the medicine housestaff and/or the medical student classes at the Medical College of Virginia of Virginia Commonwealth University. He has also recently been given the Distinguished Clinical Care award by the Department of Medicine of Virginia Commonwealth University and the inaugural Master Clinician Award by the International Society of Hypertension in Blacks. He currently manages the Hypertension Clinic at Virginia Commonwealth University. In so doing he has established a working relationship with a number of the free-standing clinics and a number of health care providers in the greater Richmond area to provide both education and quality health care in the area of hypertension therapy.

Finally, he has received a number of awards in the City of Richmond for his commitment to the community and his involvement with youth. He has established a scholarship fund for Richmond City Public High School students in 1998 and he has personally provided over $ 100,000 in scholarship dollars in the past eleven years. Most recently he and his wife have endowed a Single Mother Scholarship Fund at Virginia Commonwealth University with several young women having successfully completed school at Virginia Commonwealth University through these scholarship monies.

ASH is pleased to announce a new award, the Marvin Moser Clinical Hypertension Award. The Society will recognize a qualified Hypertension Clinician for his or her dedication to the treatment and care of hypertensive patients. The award will be given at the ASH Annual Scientific Meeting. The award recipient will receive a $5,000 honorarium, given by the Hypertension Education Foundation, as well as complimentary registration to the ASH Annual Scientific Meeting and reimbursement for travel expenses and hotel accommodations for two nights to attend the Annual Meeting. In addition, the award recipient will be recognized at the ASH Annual Scientific Meeting during the Awards Plenary Session.

Qualifications

	Must have been involved in treating hypertensive patients as a major component of his or her practice experience
	Must be currently active in teaching
	May have had an active role in developing guidelines and in clinical trials that focus on improving blood pressure control
	May be involved in community programs

	Only ASH Members can nominate candidates
	Sponsor submission of complete name, address, phone/fax numbers, and e-mail address of nominee
	Signed letter of nomination articulating major contributions of nominee to the treatment and care of hypertensive patients
	At least one additional supporting letter
	Complete curriculum vitae

Applications will be accepted starting November 2, 2009.  The deadline for submitting applications for the 2010 award will be December 16, 2009.

Please send all nomination materials to :

Ashley Buron
Program Coordinator
American Society of Hypertension, Inc.
148 Madison Ave. , 5th Floor
New York , NY 10016
awards@ash-us.org
212-696-9099