Mark E. Dunlap MD, MPH, FAHA, FACC

Mark E. Dunlap, MD, is a Professor of Medicine, Physiology and Biophysics at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He received his MD degree from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Memphis, Tennessee, and completed Medicine, Cardiology, and Research training at the Medical College of Virginia. He currently is a Cardiologist and member of the Heart Failure Section with The MetroHealth System in Cleveland.

His research has focused on abnormalities of autonomic control in hypertension and heart failure, showing that cardiopulmonary baroreflex control of sympathetic activity is blunted in both animals and humans with HF. He also has focused on mechanisms underlying abnormal cholinergic control in HF, including the role of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subtypes in ganglionic transmission. More recently his work has focused on the role of sympathetic activation in causing the redistribution of fluid from splanchnic venous vessels into the circulatory volume leading to decompensated HF.