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Faculty
William B. White, MD, FACP
University of Connecticut Health Center
Dr. William White is Professor in the Department of Medicine and Chief of the Section of Hypertension and Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine where he has worked for over 20 years. In addition, he is an attending physician at the John Dempsey Hospital in Farmington, Connecticut and a consulting physician in hypertension and vascular diseases at the Newington V.A. Medical Center (Newington, CT) and the Connecticut Children's Medical Center (Hartford). In 2000, Dr. White became the Director of the Clinical Trials Unit at the University of Connecticut Health Center.
After receiving his medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia, Dr. White completed his residency and chief residency at the University of Connecticut Consortium Hospitals in the greater Hartford area. Dr. White also completed a research fellowship in cardiovascular pharmacology at the University of Bergen in Norway under the leadership of Professor Per Lund-Johansen. Dr. White is U.S. board certified in both internal medicine and clinical pharmacology. He is also a certified clinical hypertension specialist by the American Society of Hypertension.
Dr. White is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the Council for High Blood Pressure Research of the American Heart Association and the International Society for Hypertension in Blacks and a charter member of the American Society of Hypertension.
Dr. White has a longstanding interest in clinical hypertension, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and clinical trials of antihypertensive drugs. In 1981, he founded a hypertension unit at the University of Connecticut Health Center that included a faculty consultant practice as well as a clinical trials unit. He is the author or co-author of over 270 articles and book chapters in the field of hypertension and clinical pharmacology. Dr. White recently published the book , Blood Pressure Monitoring in Cardiovascular Medicine and Therapeutics (Humana Press, Inc) in November 2000.
In 1996, Dr. White developed the peer-reviewed, international journal Blood Pressure Monitoring which is devoted to original research in the area of blood pressure measurement and variability. The Journal is entering its 7th year of publication and is indexed by EMBASE/Excerpta Medica and MEDLINE. He also serves on numerous editorial boards including the American Journal of Hypertension, American Journal of Cardiology, American Journal of Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Ethnicity and Diseases, Journal of Human Hypertension, Journal of Clinical Hypertension and Heart Disease.
Domenic Sica, MD
Medical College of Virginia of Virginia Commonwealth University
Dr. Domenic Sica is Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology at the Medical College of Virginia of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia where he also serves as the Chairman of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Hypertension. Dr. Sica completed his undergraduate training at Fordham University and subsequently obtained his medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia. Thereafter, he completed his medicine training at the Medical College of Virginia and a three-year nephrology fellowship at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. Dr. Sica returned on faculty at the Medical College of Virginia in 1981 where he currently holds the aforementioned appointments. Dr. Sica is board certified in medicine, nephrology, hypertension, and clinical pharmacology. Dr. Sica has published extensively in the area(s) of hypertension, renal disease, and drug pharmacokinetics with over 500 abstracts, publications and chapters to his credit.
Dr. Sica's research areas of interest include the pharmacotherapy of hypertension, cardiovascular risk factors in adolescent African-Americans, the pharmacokinetics of drugs in renal failure, as well as the role of the renin-angiotensin axis in disease state presentation and/or progression. Dr. Sica has been extensively involved in a service and leadership capacity with a number of the nephrology, clinical pharmacology, and hypertension organizations. Dr. Sica has several times been awarded the Best Teaching Attending award by the medicine housestaff and/or the medical student classes at the Medical College of Virginia. In addition, he has received a number of awards in the City of Richmond for his commitment to the community and his involvement with youth.
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