Virend Somers, MD, PhD
Dr. Virend Kristen Somers received his Medicine degree from the University of Natal in South Africa. He was then awarded a Nuffield Dominion Scholarship to Oxford University where he received his Doctor of Philosophy Degree. He subsequently completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Internal Medicine Residency and Cardiology Fellowship at the University of Iowa, where he served as Director of the Cardiovascular Neurophysiology Laboratory. He is the Alice Sheets Marriott Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic, and has been appointed as a Mayo Foundation Clinical Investigator. He is Board Certified in Cardiovascular Diseases and is an American Society of Hypertension certified Consultant in Hypertension. He was elected to membership of the American Society of Clinical Investigation, the American Association of Physicians and the Association of University Cardiologists. His work examines the mechanisms influencing the brain’s regulation of the heart and blood vessels in both health and disease. His research includes sleep and its interaction with circulatory control, as well as the mechanisms linking obesity to heart disease. This research is funded by three NIH R01 grants and the Mayo Foundation.
