The Stanford Hypertension Center

Features of the Center

  • A multidisciplinary forum for discussion of challenging cases (akin to Tumor Board for Oncology)
  • Group classes for patients
  • If needed, genetic counseling services are available
  • An avenue for clinical and translational research
  • An avenue for medical device testing

Gifts

Donations allow us to initiate and continue research to combat hypertension. There are multiple ways to give gifts.

Medical Center Development

Address for mailing gifts:
Development Services
PO Box 20466
Stanford, CA 94309
Phone: (650) 725-2504
email: medicalgiving@stanford.edu

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The Director's Mission Statement

We created this multidisciplinary Center to provide comprehensive, high-quality, and innovative care for patients with severe or refractory hypertension, including evaluation for secondary and reversible forms of hypertension. The Center integrates the referral process and provides consultation, diagnostic testing, and therapies for a variety of conditions that can cause and / or exacebate hypertension and provide feedback to referring physicians after evaluation and treatment.

Vivek Bhalla, MD, FASN; Director, Stanford Hypertension Center

Collaborative Partners

Partners in Clinical Care

We have partnered with colleagues to provide smooth transitions of care. For example, with Stanford Primary Care, to provide the next level of service if guideline and protocol-based treatment has not controlled blood pressure; and with Stanford Neurology through the nationally renowned Stanford Stroke Center, to provide a resource for blood pressure control post-stroke.

Stanford Stroke Center

The Stanford Stroke Center is a nationally recognized center of excellence for stroke care. Primary prevention of stroke by control of blood pressure is highly effective with efficacy that is well established in multiple clinical trials (reviewed by Rashid, et al, Stroke, 2003). Patients with resistant hypertension are also at higher risk of stroke than patients with less severe forms of hypertension. However, many of these patients are not receiving sufficient blood pressure lowering therapies (Calhoun, et al, Hypertension, 2014). Thus, the Stanford Hypertension Center has partnered with the Stanford Stroke Center to care for patients with resistant hypertension. Our hypertension specialists provide a comprehensive diagnostic screen for secondary causes of hypertension and use anti-hypertensive medications and complementary therapies to reduce the risk of future strokes.

Gregory W Albers, MD Director, Stanford Stroke Center Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences

Partners in Clinical / Translational Research

We have also partnered with several academic research organizations at Stanford. These innovative Centers house the infrastructure to advance clinical and translational research for hypertension, and we look forward to working with our colleagues on novel and exciting studies.  

Stanford Center for Clinical Research (SCCR)

Stanford Center for Digital Health

Stanford Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine

Stanford Kidney Clinical Research

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