John E. Hal PhD

John E. Hall is the Arthur C. Guyton Professor and Chair of Physiology and Biophysics, Director of the Mississippi Center for Obesity Research, and Director of the Center of Biomedical Research Excellence in Cardiorenal and Metabolic Diseases at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC). Hall received his B.S. at Kent State University, a Ph.D. in physiology at Michigan State University, and postdoctoral training at UMMC before joining the faculty in 1975.

Hall’s major research interests include cardiovascular and renal physiology, mechanisms of hypertension, obesity and metabolic disorders. His research has been funded continuously from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute since 1975 and he has been Director of an NIH Program Project grant since 1988. He has authored or co-authored over 600 publications and has written or edited 21 books, including the Textbook of Medical Physiology which is the leading medical physiology textbook and has been published in 22 languages since 1996. He is former Editor-in-Chief of Hypertension, former Editor-in-Chief of The American Journal of Physiology: Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, and serves on the editorial boards of several international journals.

Hall previously served as President of the American Physiological Society (APS), President of the Inter-American Society of Hypertension (ASH), Chair of the Committee of Scientific Councils, American Heart Association (AHA), and Chair of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research, AHA. He also has served on the Executive Committees of the ASH, the International Society of Hypertension, the International Union of Physiological Sciences, and the National Board of Directors of the AHA.