Irene Gavras MD is a Professor of Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine and attending physician at the Boston Medical Center, where she is in charge of the Hypertension clinic. She obtained her medical degree from the Athens University School of Medicine and her postgraduate training in the Hippocrateion and the Evangelismos hospitals in Athens, Greece, and the Royal Infirmary in Glasgow, Scotland and completed a 3-year Fellowship in Hypertension at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York. She has been on the faculty of the BUSM since 1975 , has taught cardiovascular pharmacology to the 2nd year medical students, as well as bedside teaching and clinic rotations to 4th year students and house staff. She has contributed to numerous experimental and clinical studies on the pathophysiology and treatment of hypertension, and, in collaboration with her husband Dr Haralambos Gavras, conducted the first clinical trials that introduced the angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers for the treatment of hypertension and heart failure. She is author or co-author of over 360 publications.
