Mark E. Dunlap, MD

Dr. Dunlap is Associate Professor of Medicine, Physiology and Biophysics at Case Western Reserve University and Director of the Heart Failure Program at the Louis B. Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He also serves as Associate Chief, Cardiology Section, V.A. Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio. He received his MD from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Memphis, Tennessee in 1982. After finishing his residency in Internal Medicine and a Cardiovascular Fellowship in 1986 at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia, he also completed a Research Fellowship at the V.A. Medical Center and Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia in 1989. His basic research interests are in the area of neurohumoral control of the circulation in heart failure, for which he has received funding from the Department of Veterans' Affairs, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and the American Heart Association. He has received several Merit Review awards from the Department of Veterans Affairs to study mechanisms of abnormal cholinergic control in heart failure.

Dr. Dunlap is the recipient of a CHF-QUERI award from the Department of Veterans Affairs for the study "Randomized Trial of a Telephone Intervention in Heart Failure Patients" to test the efficacy of a computerized management system for patients with heart failure. He has been an active participant in many multi-center trials to evaluate new therapies in patients with coronary artery disease, heart failure, and hypertension, and has served on the Steering Committees of several of these trials, including the CHARM trial, for which he served as Vice-Chair of the US National Leadership. He also served on Steering Committee for the PEACE study, sponsored by the NHLBI. He has published over 100 articles, book chapters, and abstracts, many of them in the area of autonomic control of the circulation, as well as on advances in clinical treatment of patients with heart failure. He has served on numerous study sections for the NHLBI, American Heart Association, and the Department of Veterans Affairs, and currently serves as Curriculum Coordinator for the National Heart Failure Training Program (N-HeFT). Memberships and Fellowships include: Fellow, Council on Circulation (AHA); Fellow, Council on Clinical Cardiology (AHA); Fellow, American College of Cardiology; Central Society for Clinical Research; American Federation for Medical Research; American Physiological Society; Neural Control and Autonomic Regulation Section (APS); Heart Failure Society of America.