Professor Murray David Esler, AM (born in 1943 in

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) is a clinical cardiologist and medical scientist, based at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute and the

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, where he is the Associate Director of the Heart Centre. He is a Professor of Medicine at Melbourne's

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. As Associate Director of the Baker, Professor Esler leads the Institute’s research into the relationship between the brain and heart health. He studied medicine at the

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and received a PhD from the

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(Department of Clinical Science). His chief research interests are the causes and treatment of high blood pressure and heart failure, the effects of stress on the cardiovascular system, and monoamine transmitters of the human brain. His research on the sympathetic nerves of the kidneys in essential hypertension provided the theoretical basis for the development of a revolutionary treatment of high blood pressure, involving silencing these nerves with a radio wave emitting catheter placed in the kidney arteries. This treatment, called Renal Sympathetic Denervation, is now used clinically in Europe and Australia for severe drug-resistant hypertension, and is in Stage 3 trials in the United States. He is the father of actor

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Awards

Professor Esler has received the following awards for his research: * Excellence Award in Hypertension Research, awarded by the

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in (2013). * Bjorn Folkow Award of the European Society of Hypertension (2012). *

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for Translational Research, shared with Professor Markus Schlaich (2011). * Victoria Prize, State Government of Victoria (2009) *

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; AM (2007) * Hamdan Award for Medical Research Excellence, awarded by Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences,

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(2006). *

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(2003) of the Government of Australia. * Elected a

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(2002). * Hartnett Medal of the

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(2002). * Merck Sharpe & Dohme Award of the

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(2000). * Ramaciotti Medal (1997), for excellence in biomedical research. * RT Hall Prize (1996), for research in cardiology, awarded annually by the Cardiac Society of Australasia. * Wellcome (Australia) Medal (1989), awarded annually for "the most outstanding biomedical research in Australia". * Susman Prize,

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(1983), awarded annually for "the best original contribution to internal medicine by a Fellow or Member of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians".

References

* Professor Esler's profile at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute website

External links

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