R. Clinton Webb - Editor-in-Chief

R. Clinton Webb graduated from the Southern Illinois University, in 1971, and received his Ph.D. in Anatomy from the University of Iowa in 1976. After postdoctoral training at the University of Michigan and the Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen, he joined the faculty of the Department of Physiology at the University of Michigan in 1979, reaching full Professor in 1989. In 1999, he joined the faculty at the Medical College of Georgia where he is the Herbert S. Kupperman Chair in Cardiovascular Disease and Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Physiology.

His research interests focus on the physiology of the cardiovascular system with particular emphasis on hypertension and erectile dysfunction. He has published over 230 peer-reviewed papers and 70 book chapters and reviews and is currently funded by a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Program Project Grant.

In addition to being the Editor-in-Chief Elect of Clinical Science, he is also an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Physiology, Heart and Circulatory Physiology. He is a member of twelve Editorial Boards, including those of Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology, Journal of the American Society of Hypertension, Journal of Vascular Research, Vascular Pharmacology, Cardiovascular Diabetology and Journal of Cardiometabolic Syndrome, and is on the Editorial Advisory Panel of Current Hypertension Reviews and the Journal of Biomedical Sciences.

He is also an active member of several societies, including the American Heart Association, American Physiological Society and the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. He is the chair-elect of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research of the American Heart Association and he is a Councilor of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine.

Dr. Webb has served on numerous peer-review committees for the National Institutes of Health and the American Heart Association