2025 - 32nd Annual Cardiovascular Day
March 11th, 2025
Hilton Inn Garden Conference Center «map»
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Meena Madhur
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division Director of Clinical Pharmacology
Indiana University School of Medicine
Dr. Madhur’s research interests are focused on the interplay between the immune system and hypertension, particularly the renal, vascular, and cardiac complications of hypertension. Her long-term goal is to identify novel diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for this disease. Her early investigations revealed a critical role for the pro-inflammatory cytokine, interleukin 17A (IL-17A), in angiotensin II induced hypertension and vascular dysfunction. Her laboratory has defined pathways by which IL-17A regulates renal sodium transporters and how salt influences T cells in hypertension. Recently her lab has investigated innate immune mechanisms of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction and elucidated how a common genetic polymorphism in LNK/Sh2b3 contributes to hypertension. Dr. Madhur is an active grant reviewer for the National Institutes of Health and American Heart Association. She also serves as Associate Editor of Clinical Science and Guest Editor of Hypertension. She has authored over 50 papers in high impact journals including the Journal of Clinical Investigation (JCI), JCI Insight, Circulation Research, Cardiovascular Research, and Hypertension.
Event Information
This years Cardiovascular Day will be held, in person, off campus, at the Hilton Inn Garden Conference Center at 3300 Vandiver Drive (map). This is right next door to Bass Pro off of Hwy63, just North of the I-70/Hwy63 interchange.
Please contact mucvday@missouri.edu for more information.
Event Committee members:
Charles Norton, PhD – Committee Chair and MPP representative
Carie Boychuk, PhD – Dalton and Biomedical Sciences representative
Jessica Cayton, DVM – Trainee representative
Camila Manrique-Acevedo, MD – NextGen representative
Jaume Padilla, PhD – NEP representative
Karol Dinwiddie - Biomedical Sciences representative
John Donahue – IT planning and support representative
Laura McClaskey – Dalton and NextGen representative
Darius Miller – NEP representative
Lisa Putting - MPP representative
