Lars Berglund, M.D., Ph.D., associate dean of clinical and translational research at The University of California, Davis, is the Frederic C. Bartter Visiting Professor.
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Lars Berglund, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine and associate dean of clinical and translational research at The University of California, Davis, is the Frederic C. Bartter Visiting Professor for 2007 at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

Dr. Berglund will discuss “The Clinical and Translational Science Award Initiative: Looking Back and Looking Forward” during the Department of Medicine Research Seminar at noon Tuesday, Nov. 13, in the School of Medicine, Room 209L, on the central campus.

The Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) will be of great importance in the Health Science Center’s future, said Robert A. Clark, M.D., who is leading the institution’s CTSA grant initiative. He encourages all faculty to consider attending the Berglund presentation.

Dr. Berglund to speak at Medicine Grand Rounds
Dr. Berglund also will speak at Medicine Grand Rounds at 8 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14, in the School of Medicine, Room 409L. His topic will be “Lipoprotein (a): Translational Approaches for a Challenging Cardiovascular Risk Factor.”

Bartter Professorship honors former Health Science Center professor
The Bartter Professorship honors the late Frederic Crosby Bartter, M.D., who was born to American missionaries in Manila, Philippines, in 1914. His parents sent him to the U.S. in his teens, and he ultimately completed his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1940.

After working with the U.S. Public Health Service and Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Bartter joined the National Institutes of Health in 1951. He was named director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in 1956. He remained with the NIH until 1978, when he moved to San Antonio to assume duties as associate chief of staff for research at Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital (now the South Texas Veterans Health Care System, Audie Murphy Division) and professor of medicine at the Health Science Center.

Dr. Bartter’s research focused on the regulation of blood pressure
Dr. Bartter is remembered for research of the regulation of blood pressure, including processes important to hypertension in humans, and perhaps is best known by physicians for describing Bartter syndrome, a rare group of conditions that affect the kidneys.