Shawna Nesbitt, M.D.

Shawna D. (Smith) Nesbitt, M.D., M.S., is an Associate Professor in Internal Medicine-Hypertension at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. She serves as the Medical Director of the Parkland Hypertension Clinic. Her research interests include clinical trials and epidemiology of hypertension and cardiovascular risk. Her area of research is hypertension in African Americans, insulin resistance, and hyperlipidemia. Dr. Nesbitt is the National Coordinator for the TROPHY Study (Trial of Prevention Hypertension). The study is a 4-year trial which includes over 71 sites and more than 800 patients. She is funded by the National Institutes of Health to study the relationship of oxidative stress and genetics in the development of hypertension. She is the secretary treasurer for the International Society of Hypertension in Blacks (ISHIB). She is also Chairperson of the ?Children Are Our Messengers? Initiative sponsored that organization. She is also Director of Cohort Follow-up for the Dallas Heart Study, funded by the Donald Reynolds Foundation. Dr. Nesbitt is a Fellow of the American Heart Association and the Council for High Blood Pressure Research. She also serves as an Advisory Panel member for the Red Dress Campaign sponsored by the National Institutes of Health.

University	Gannon University (1988)
University	Hahnemann University College of Medicine (1988)
Internship	Allegheny General Hospital (1989)
Residency	Allegheny General Hospital (1991)
Fellowship	University of Michigan Hospitals & Health Centers (1992)
University	University of Michigan, School of Public Health (1999)

• Hypertension

• Primary Interests
• Atherosclerosis
• Diabetes & Heart Disease
• Diabetes & High Blood Pressure

• Hyperlipidemia
• Hypertension
• Hypertension in African-Americans
• Oxidative Stress and Genetics of Prehypertension

Featured Publications

Mild Hypertension: An Importance Frontier in Therapy of Hypertension.

Julius S, Nesbitt SD, Brook R in Oparil S, Weber M (ed), Hypertension: A Companion to Brenner and Rector's "The Kidney" 2000 Chapter 42 398-404

Stroke. Increasing the odds in your favor.

Nesbitt S, Baganz M In: Crute S (ed), Health and Healing for African Americans. Pennsylvania, Rodale Press, Inc. 1997 1st ed. 428-433

Home blood pressure as a predictor of future blood pressure stability in borderline hypertension.

Nesbitt SD, Amerena JV, Grant E, Jamerson KA, Lu H, Weder A, Julius S Am J Hypertens 1997 10(11) 1270-1280

Hematocrit levels and physiologic factors in relationship to cardiovascular risk in Tecumseh, Michigan.

Smith [Nesbitt] S, Julius S, Jamerson K, Amerena J, Schork N J Hypertens 1994 12(4) 455-462

Genetic contribution to the variance in left ventricular mass: the Tecumseh offspring study.

Palatini P, Tikhonoff V, Krause L, Amerena J, Nesbitt S, et al. J Hypertens July 2002 19(7) 1217-1222

Can hypertension be prevented? The Danish Hypertension Prevention Project and the Trial of Prevention of Hypertension studies.

Skov K, Julius S, Nesbitt S, Mulvany MJ Curr Opin Cardiol July 2002 17(4) 380-384

Obesity: Putting Our Children at Risk.

Nesbitt, S Ethn & Dis Summer 2002 12(3) 320-321

Prehypertension: A Possible Target for Antihypertensive Medication.

Nesbitt SD, Julius S Curr Hypertens Reports 2000 2(4) 356-361

• Fellow of the American Heart Association and the Council for High Blood Pressure Research
  (2002)
• Professional Development Seminar for Junior Women Faculty
  (2000)
• American Heart Association Teaching Seminar on Cardiovascular Epidemiology
  (1994)

• Member, American College of Physicians
• Member, American Heart Association
• Member, American Society of Hypertension
• Member, Association of Black Cardiologist
• Member, International Society of Hypertension in Blacks