Elias appointed to Board of Editors of the ‘American Journal of Hypertension’

Merrill Elias, emeritus professor of psychology and Graduate School of Biomedical Science, has been appointed to the board of editors of the American Journal of Hypertension. He presently serves on the Hypertension board of editors and is a fellow on the Council of High Blood Pressure, American Heart Association. He has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and as editor-emeritus for Experimental Aging Research. He began his work on hypertension, and cognitive function and biological outcomes with animal models in 1978, subsequently conducting clinical and epidemiological studies. He is director of the Maine-Syracuse Longitudinal Study of hypertension, cardiovascular disease and cognitive function.