Title:  “Update on Hypertension Management for Primary Care Providers – Part One of a Two-Part Series”
AAPA Release Date:  October 20, 2009
AAPA Expiration Date:  October 31, 2010
Note:  CME credit cannot be awarded after this date
Presented by:  The American Academy of Physician Assistants
Funding:  Supported through educational grants from Boehringer-Ingelheim and Merck
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  “Update on Hypertension Management for Primary Care Providers – Part One of a Two-Part Series”
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Faculty
Lawrence Herman, MPA, RPA-C, DFAAPA
Moderator
Physician Assistant
Senior Clinical Coordinator
Assistant Professor
Department of Physician Assistant Studies
New York Institute of Technology
Old Westbury, NY
Director, Medical Education
Island Medical Physicians, PC
Hauppauge, NY
Mr. Herman is an Assistant Professor (with tenure) and Senior Clinical Coordinator in the Department of Physician Assistant Studies at New York Institute of Technology, New York College of Osteopathic Medicine affiliation in Old Westbury.  He is also Vice President of Medical Education and Senior PA at Island Medical Physicians PC, in Hauppauge, New York, where he sees patients and is responsible for setting all of the practice guidelines for a large, multi-office family practice group.
He received a master of public administration in health administration and health system finance from Long Island University in Brookville, New York.  He was certified by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants, with special distinction in both surgery and primary care and remains certified in primary care.
As a Distinguished Fellow of the American Academy of Physician Assistants, Mr. Herman has served and chaired numerous AAPA committees as well as being a Past-President of the New York State Society of Physician Assistants.  He has contributed numerous book chapters to the literature and has published over 30 peer-reviewed articles.  He has participated in several clinical pharmaceutical trials and continues to be an invited speaker at international and national meetings.  He is the 2009 recipient of the New York Institute of Technology Annual Scholars Award for significant publication scholarship activities, the 2008 Standard of Excellence Award for providing the highest level of research and scholarship, and the 2007 and 2008 Educator of the Year award.
Randall M. Zusman, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Director
Division of Hypertension and Vascular Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
Dr. Zusman is the Director of the Division of Hypertension and Vascular Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and Consultant in Cardiology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Boston, Massachusetts.  He is also an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.  Dr. Zusman has recently been designated a Specialist in Clinical Hypertension by the American Society of Hypertension.
A Fellow in the American College of Cardiology, Dr. Zusman is a member of many professional societies including the American Heart Association, the American Society of Hypertension, and the American Society of Nephrology.  He has also served in several positions at the American Federation for Clinical Research, including Chairman of the Public Policy Committee.  
Dr. Zusman has contributed to the publication of over 100 papers, abstracts, clinical studies, and book chapters, including reports in leading scientific medical journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, American Journal of Cardiology, American Journal of Hypertension, Lancet, and Circulation.  He is currently on the Editorial Advisory Board of Reviews in Contemporary Pharmacotherapy.  Dr. Zusman also has served as an Associate Editor of Hypertension, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Hypertension and the Journal of Clinical Hypertension.
Dr. Zusman received his medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1973, where he was awarded the Louis B. Nahum Prize for Cardiovascular Research and was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha.  Dr. Zusman completed his internship, junior and senior residencies and chief residency in the Department of Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital.  He completed fellowships in the Hypertension-Endocrine Branch, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, and in the Cardiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.  Dr. Zusman received his undergraduate degree from University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, in 1969.
John G. McGinnity, MS, PA-C
Clinical Associate Professor
Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI
Physician Assistant
Downriver Cardiology Consultants
Trenton, MI
Mr. McGinnity is a Clinical Associate Professor at the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, where he is a course coordinator and lecturer in Physician Assistant Studies and the Physical Therapy Program.  He is also a Physician Assistant at Downriver Cardiology Consultants in Trenton, Michigan.
Mr. McGinnity has received the Innovations in Health Care Award from the American Academy of Physician Assistants and the Physician Assistant Foundation and the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award.  He is the Immediate Past President of the Michigan Academy of Physician Assistants and the Chairman of the Conference Education Planning Committee for the American Academy of Physician Assistants.  Mr. McGinnity has also served as a member of the National Institutes of Health, National Heart Attack Alert Program, Coordinating Committee.
Among his editorial and peer-reviewer responsibilities, Mr. McGinnity serves on the editorial board of Advance for Physician Assistants and has authored or co-authored numerous articles in such journals as the American Journal of Cardiology, Circulation, and Advance for Physician Assistants.  Mr. McGinnity is a frequent speaker at regional and national professional meetings.
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