UF physiologist named to hypertension consortium

University of Florida physiologist M. Ian Phillips has been named to the board of directors for the Consortium for Southeastern Hypertension Control.

Phillips is professor and chairman of the department of physiology and director of the Hypertension Center at UF’s College of Medicine.

Founded in 1994, the consortium is a nonprofit professional medical organization whose mission is to reduce hypertension-related deaths and illnesses in the Southeast by promoting research and educating the public and health-care professionals. The Southeast has the highest rate of stroke, and hypertension is a major risk factor for stroke.