Henry R. Black, MD

Henry R. Black, MD, is the Associate Vice President for Research, the Associate Dean for Research, and a Professor and Chair for the Department of Preventive Medicine at Rush Medical College of Rush University in Chicago.

Dr. Black is a board-certified nephrologist with three decades of experience in preventive cardiology. Dr. Black received his medical degree from the New York University School of Medicine, and he did his training in Internal Medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Yale–New Haven Hospital, where he served as Chief Resident in Internal Medicine. He also spent two years as a Staff Associate at the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases and completed a fellowship in nephrology at the Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Black joined the Rush–Presbyterian–St. Luke's Medical Center of Rush University in May 1992 after spending nearly 20 years on the faculty at the Yale University School of Medicine, where he was Professor of Internal Medicine.

Dr. Black was a member of the Fifth Joint National Committee on the Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of Hypertension. He serves on the Executive Committee of the American Heart Association Council on High Blood Pressure Research, as well as chairing the Council's Professional Education Committee. He sits on the executive committee of the American Society of Hypertension and chairs the Society's Postgraduate Education Committee. Dr. Black is also on the editorial board of Hypertension, and is Chair of the National High Blood Pressure Education Program Working Group on the Elderly. He was Principal Investigator for the Yale site of the Systolic Hypertension Elderly Program, was the American Heart Association Representative to the Coordinating Committee of the National High Blood Pressure Education Program from 1994 to 1998, and has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Council on High Blood Pressure Research of the American Heart Association. He was the Chair of the Committee on Continuing Medical Education, as well as President of the American Society of Preventive Cardiology.