Dr. Ivor Benjamin giving the President's welcome at the Aha epi/lifestyle meeting. The AHA is sponsoring a lot of important initiatives. More volunteers are needed.

Great session on the new ACC/AHA CVD prevention guideline at the 2019 Scientific Sessions American College of Cardiology chaired by Donna K. Arnett and Roger Blumenthal. Important work.

Dr. Matt Mefford from UAB School of Public Health and Kaiser Permanente Research presenting data on PCSK9 loss of function variants and Lp(a) levels and apo(a) isoforms from the #REGARDSStudy at the American College of Cardiology meeting. Compelling results.

The 30th Annual UAB Vascular Biology and Hypertension symposium will be on May 3-4, 2019. Funded by NIH NHLBI. Sessions on novel diagnostics, BP measurement and SPRINT. Too many outstanding speakers to list. Registration is free: apps.medicine.uab.edu/ElectronicPaym…

On May 2, 2019, prior to the UAB Vascular Biology and Hypertension Symposium, there will be an Interactive Workshop on Hypertension. Learn how to measure blood pressure (ABPM, HBPM and office)! Its free but registration is required: goo.gl/forms/acn0VYFi…

THREAD (1) In preparation for the upcoming AHAMeetings #QCOR2019 early career programming, Madeline Sterling, MD, MPH, FAHA, Mike Thompson, and I, wanted to start a conversation around best-practices for collaboration on manuscripts to maximize success and to avoid common pitfalls and missteps

What a panel! Great insights! Thanks Rashmee Shah, MD John Spertus Umesh Khot Paul Muntner Karen Joynt Maddox #QCOR19 AHAMeetings

Congratulations to Madeline Sterling, MD, MPH, FAHA for winning the Paul Dudley White award at #QCOR2019 with her poster from the #REGARDS study on 90 day mortality after heart failure hospitalization.

Congratulations to Swati Sakhuja, PhD student UAB School of Public Health for winning the Outstanding Scholastic Achievement Award.

Dr. Suzanne Oparil kicks off the @uab Interactive Workshop on Hypertension. Keynote speakers and a great opportunity to learn how to measure blood pressure from experts. #ABPM #HBPM

Today and tomorrow are the 30th UAB Vascular Biology & Hypertension symposium. Sponsored by an R13 grant from @nih_nhlbi. Outstanding speakers including Michael Rakotz, MD Hayden Bosworth Tara Chang Paul Drawz and many others.

A great celebration at the UAB School of Public Health for Gary Cutter who is "retiring". Original PI of the CARDIA coordinating center and a leading biostatistician in many areas.

It’s almost 8pm in NYC and Byron Jaeger is burning the midnight oil on day 1 of the Jackson Heart Study writing retreat. Working on new analyses, manuscripts and grant proposals. JacksonHeartStudy Daichi Shimbo MD Gbenga Ogedegbe, MD

An observation after working on this last Thursday with Daichi Shimbo MD and Joe Schwartz in the Pickering conference room at CBCH. Nothing beats a retreat with colleagues, dedicated to focused goal. A great way to accelerate science. #teamscience

In Pasadena, CA Kaiser Permanente Research for a working group meeting for the AMBROSIA and AMBROSIA-HOME studies funded by NIH NHLBI, ABPM and HBPM being done in over 1,000 older adults. Daichi Shimbo MD C. Barrett Bowling

This has been a great meeting in the past and I anticipate another great meeting this year.

Very excited to have Dr. Shakia Hardy join the faculty in the Department of Epidemiology at UAB School of Public Health. I look forward to working with her on the JacksonHeartStudy, CARDIA and other research studies.

At European Society of Cardiology meeting and the hypertension sessions are standing room only and the talks are great. BP goals, measurement and latest findings.

It was an honor to attend the celebration for Dr. Suzanne Oparil receiving an endowed professorship. A legend in the field who I am fortunate to work with at #UAB.

Here is a link to the app that makes NHANES analyses point and click: bcjaeger.shinyapps.io/nhanesShinyBP/ Published in Hypertension - I have used it in meetings to get preliminary data - very useful and exciting.