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 2^nd year medical students, as well as  bedside teaching  and clinic rotations to 4^th 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.