His recent professional committee assignments include the Coordinating Committee of the National High Blood Pressure Education Program of the NHLBI, the Executive Committee of the JNC 7, the Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Expert Adisory Panel of the U.S. Pharmacopeia, the Program and Finance Committees of the AHA’s Council on High Blood Pressure Research, and the Professional Education Committee of the American Society of Hypertension. He is a member of many national and international medical societies, serves on the Editorial Board or as a reviewer for numerous journals, is widely published in books and journals, and is Senior Editor of the AHA’s Hypertension Primer, now in its 3rd edition.

Dr. Izzo continues to practice clinical medicine and has research interests that include the mechanisms of systolic hypertension and vascular stiffness, the role of the sympathetic nervous system in blood pressure homeostasis, and the clinical pharmacology and treatment of hypertension. He received his MD from Johns Hopkins University Medical School, later completing his Internal Medicine internship and residency at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Izzo subsequently trained in experimental therapeutics in the Hypertension-Endocrine Branch of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute in Bethesda and received nephrology certification at the University of Rochester.