Overview

Dr. James Van Huysse is Assistant Professor in the Division of Cardiology and Hypertension Unit, Department of Medicine, at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. He is also Assistant Professor in the Division of Cardiology at the University of Ottawa with a cross-appointment to the Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology (BMI).

Background

Dr. Van Huysse received a Bachelor's Degree in Biological Science in 1975 from Indiana University and entered a combined-degree program also at Indiana in 1978. He received MD and PhD (Pharmacology) degrees in Pharmacology in 1985 and 1986, respectively, and subsequently undertook a Post-doctoral Fellowship from 1986-89 in the CNS Control of the Cardiovascular System, with Dr. Steven Bealer at the University of Tennessee and sponsored by a post-doctoral training award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He then trained from 1990 to 1995 with Dr. Jerry Lingrel in an NIH-sponsored Program of Excellence (POE) involving the Molecular Biology of the Heart and Lung at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio, one of three such NIH POE programs in the United States. He was a Research Associate in the Molecular Genetics Department at the University of Cincinnati from 1996 to 1997 before coming to the University of Ottawa Heart Institute in 1997.

Dr. Van Huysse has received a scholarship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)/Pharmaceutical Manufacturer's Association joint program and operating grants from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario and CIHR. He participates in graduate and undergraduate teaching (biochemistry) and his laboratory trains graduate and undergraduate honours students from BMI and other basic science departments. He has been a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Canadian Hypertension Society (CHS), has served on CIHR as well as combined CHS/CIHR grant and scholarship review committees and has been an ad-hoc reviewer for several scientific journals, including Hypertension, American Journal of Physiology and American Journal of Hypertension.