Raymond R. Townsend

Professor of Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Department: Medicine

Contact information

University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
210 White Building
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Office: 2156622780
Fax: 2153495703

Email:
TOWNSEND@MAIL.MED.UPENN.EDU

Education
B.A. (Biology)
LaSalle College, 1975.
M.D.
Hahnemann University, 1979.

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Description of Research Expertise

progression of chronic kidney disease
insulin resistance
measurement of vascular compliance
euglycemic clamp technique
minimal model for glucose kinetics
stable isotope metabolism
indirect calorimetry
measurement of regional blood flow
measurement of glomerular filtration
rate (GFR)

Description of Clinical Expertise

hypertension
hypertension with adrenal tumors
pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma
conn's syndrome
aldosterone excess
hypertension with renal vascular disease

Selected Publications

Townsend, R.R., DiPette, D.J., Lieux, T.R., Wolfe, R.R. : The role of the renin-angiotensin system in insulin sensitivity in normotensive subjects. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences 305: 67-71, 1993.

Townsend, R.R., DiPette, D.J.: : Evaluation of elevated blood pressure. Clinics in Laboratory Medicine 3: 287-302, 1993.

Townsend, R.R., DiPette, D.J.: Pressor doses of angiotensin II increase insulin-mediated glucose uptake in normotensive man. American Journal of Physiology (Metabolism and Endocrine) 265: E362-E366, 1993.

Townsend, R.R., Evans, R., Due, D., Peng, A: The effects of antihypertensive therapy on serum lipids in older white women. Cardiology in the Elderly 1: 429-434, 1993.

The Treatment of Mild Hypertension Research Grou: The Treatment of Mild Hypertension Study. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA 270: 713-724, 1993.

Townsend, R.R,. Yamamoto, R., Nickols, M., DiPette, D.J., Nickols, G.: Insulin Enhances Pressor Responses to Norepinephrine in Rat Mesenteric Vasculature. Hypertension 19(SuppII): II105-II110, 1992.

Yamamoto, R., Nickols, G.A., Nickols, M., DiPette, D.J., Townsend, R.R., Takasaki, Y: Reassessment of noradrenergic function in salt-induced hypertension in Dahl rats. Japanese Journal of Pharmacology 58(suppII): 274, 1992.

Rude, B., Townsend, R.R., DiPette, D.J: Simulation of severe hypertension as a means of malingering. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences 304: 258-260, 1992.

Townsend, R.R., Head, P.A.jr, Lieux,, T.R., DiPette, D.J: Insulin resistance in essential hypertension: Effects of antihypertensive drug therapy. Current Topics in Pharmacology 1: 69-82, 1992.

Townsend, R.R., DiPette, D.J., Evans, R.R., Davis, W.R., Green, A., Graham, G.A., Wallace, J.M., Holland, O.B. : Effects of Calcium Channel Blockade on Calcium Homeostasis in Mild to Moderate Essential Hypertension. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences 299: 113-137, 1991.

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