Leopoldo Raij, M.D., FAHA, professor of medicine and a nationally recognized hypertension researcher, has been selected to receive the 2009 Irvine Page-Alva Bradley Lifetime Achievement Award in Hypertension. The prestigious award, sponsored by the American Heart Association's Council for High Blood Pressure Research, is presented annually to an individual who has shown a lifetime of outstanding achievements in the field of hypertension and has served as a role model through service, research, teaching and training--a description Raij exemplifies.

"Just imagine how flattered I am to receive such a prestigious national award, and it is given to me by my peers, which is so important, because my peers are the ones who can best evaluate my accomplishments," said Dr. Raij. "I'm very, very happy."