David A. Calhoun MD

Dr. David Calhoun, MD, is a Professor of Medicine, Vascular Biology, and Hypertension Program and the Center for Sleep/Wake Disorders at The University of Alabama at Birmingham. He earned undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. After completing his medical residency at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, he did a post-doctoral research fellowship in vascular biology under the tutelage of Dr. Suzanne Oparil. He currently has joint faculty appointments in the UAB Hypertension Program and in the Center for Sleep/Wake Disorders. Dr. Calhoun is an active clinical investigator.

He has an extensive bibliography in clinical hypertension, including over 170 journal articles and book chapters. His major research focus has been on defining the causes of resistant hypertension. In that regard, Dr. Calhoun has made important contributions in defining aldosteronism as the common cause of resistant hypertension. Currently, his laboratory is evaluating a proposed phenotype of refractory hypertension.