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Getting Hypertensive Patient’s Blood Pressure to Goal Blood Pressure
High blood pressure is one of the most common reasons an adult patient who is not pregnant, acutely ill, or injured is seen by a primary care provider. Despite 50 years since the NIH’s National HBP Education Program many hypertensive patients still are not reaching goals BPs.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of the presentation, the participant will have improved competency to help hypertensive patients reach goal blood pressure by utilization of
Michael Moore, MD an internist/nephrologist, who has specialized in hypertension management and preventive cardiovascular health program development, is the Director of Continuing Medical Education at Sovah Health in Danville, VA. He is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the VCOM and LUCOM and the Hypertension and Vascular Research Center of Wake Forest University School of Medicine where he was previously a Teacher of the Year. Dr. Moore represented the American Heart Association on the NIH National High Blood Pressure Education Program and participated in developing the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Joint National Committee Reports on the Detection, Evaluation and Management of High Blood Pressure (JNCs). He chaired the NIH Working Group on Hypertension and Chronic Renal Failure. In 2004, Dr. Moore was chosen as the American Heart Association’s National Physician of the Year. This award recognized his developing two nonprofit voluntary cardiovascular improvement organizations. In 2008, he led the creation of the osteopathic residency program at Sovah Health which now has dually accredited Family Medicine and Internal Medicine Residencies.
Disclosures: None
