The sixth annual Frank M. Townsend, M.D., lecture, featuring Kenneth E. Bernstein, M.D., endowed distinguished service professor of pathology at Emory University, will be held at 4 p.m. Monday, Dec. 6 in Room 409L in the Medical School.
Dr. Bernstein will present “Understanding the Role of ACE in Renal Function and
Blood Pressure Control Through the Analysis of Genetically Modified Mice.”
Dr. Bernstein is the recipient of the Emory University Dean's Clinical Investigator Award, a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Merit Award and is a fellow of the Council on the Kidney in Cardiovascular Disease from the American Heart Association. His research focuses on the renin-angiotensin system and knockout mouse models of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE). He is a member of several editorial boards, serves on NIH review panels and is an active participant in the American Society of Nephrology annual meetings as a reviewer of papers submitted on vascular pathology and as a program committee member. He is a national and international scholar and has published 116 peer-reviewed publications in outstanding journals.
The Frank M. Townsend, M.D., Lecture commemorates the distinguished career of Frank Marion Townsend, M.D., chairman of pathology from 1972 to 1986 at the Health Science Center.
Dr. Townsend had a long and distinguished military career, beginning as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army Medical Corps and culminating as a colonel in the U.S. Air Force in 1954. He also served as deputy director and director of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C.
He began his teaching career as an instructor of pathology at the Washington University School of Medicine in 1945. By 1949, he was an associate professor of pathology at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. In 1969, he was appointed clinical professor in the department of pathology at the Health Science Center and three years later became the chairman of the department. Dr. Townsend oversaw development of the department from three faculty members in 1972 to 55 at the time of his retirement in 1986.
A wine and cheese reception will follow the lecture. The lecture is sponsored by the department of pathology. Donations benefiting the annual lecture will also be accepted. For more information call (210) 567-4003.
