Learning Systems in Japan

Dr. Michael Moore, Founder and President of Learning Systems, Inc., was an invited speaker at the Japanese Circulation Society Annual Meeting in Asahikawa, Japan, on September 16, 2005. Dr. Moore’s topic was “Total Hypertension Management—Combining Treatments to Improve Outcomes”. His presentation stressed the importance of reaching goal blood pressures and the need for combinations of antihypertensive drugs to do so.

During the meeting, Dr. Moore, a Clinical Professor and member of the Hypertensive and Vascular Disease Center of the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, also participated in a roundtable discussion for the Medical Tribune on Changes in Guidelines on Antihypertensive Therapy. As a participant in the development of several National Heart Lung and Blood Institute Reports on the Detection, Evaluation, and Management of Hypertension (JNCs), Dr. Moore presented the differences between the recommendations of the JNC 6 and JNC 7 Reports.

 The Roundtable was chaired by Dr. Hiroaki Matsuoka, of the Department of Hypertension and Cardiorenal Medicine, Dokkyo University School of Medicine. Other participants were Dr. Satoshi Umemura of  the Department of Medical Science and Cardiorenal Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, and Dr. Akira Nishiyama, of the Department of Pharmacology, Kagawa Medical University. Dr. Umemura discussed the Japanese Hypertension Society recommendations for hypertension treatment, and Dr. Nishiyama reviewed the role of angiotensin receptor blockers in the new hypertension treatment guidelines. The Roundtable discussion will be published in an upcoming edition of the Medical Tribune.

 

American Heart Association Physician of the Year 2004

Michael A. Moore, MD, FACP, FAHA was named Physician of the Year by the American Heart Association (AHA) at the AHA National Volunteer Conference in Washington, DC, on April 26, 2004.  The Award was in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the accomplishment of the Association's mission as a practicing physician.  He has worked to reduce disability and death from cardiovascular disease through multiple efforts at primary and secondary prevention -- through the clinical practice of nephrology and hypertension, as a medical educator, through his volunteer work with the AHA, and in founding two voluntary cardiovascular health organizations.

In receiving the award, Dr. Moore acknowledged the contributions of many others who have worked with him in these efforts during his 29 years of clinical practice.

Dr. Moore received his medical education at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and served a Medicine Internship/Residency and Fellowship in Hypertension Research and Clinical Nephrology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.  He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Nephrology, and the American Society of Hypertension has designated him as a Hypertension Specialist. 

For the past 24 years, Dr. Moore has been in practice in Danville, Virginia, as a nephrologist specializing in hypertension management for 21 years and currently operating the Hypertension Clinic within the Family Healthcare Clinic in Danville.  He also has been a member of the faculty of the Wake Forest University School of Medicine (WFUSM) since 1976 where he is a Clinical Professor of Medicine/Nephrology and a member of the Hypertension and Vascular Disease Center.  He has an active teaching role for medical students, residents, and physician assistants.  His interest and expertise in the field of hypertension is evidenced by being a member and the AHA’s representative to the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Joint National Committees on the Detection, Evaluation and Management of High Blood Pressure (JNCs) and serving as a reviewer for the Seventh.

In the award ceremony, the Heart Association also cited his work as a medical educator.  In addition to his teaching at WFUSM, he has been an active national lecturer speaking on hypertension/cardiovascular and renal topics and has taught for the AHA and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Canada, Brazil, and several European countries.  He has also published basic research reports, review articles, monographs, internet based and video healthcare provider educational materials.  WFUSM recognized his teaching and honored him with the Teaching Excellence Award for 1979.  He has served as the Director of Continuing Medical Education at the Danville Regional Medical Center for the past 13 years.

Volunteer work for the AHA has been an important part of his professional life and was recognized at the April 26 ceremony.  Beginning in 1972 in the Maryland Affiliate and continuing through the present, his volunteer efforts have spanned the local, state, and national levels of the organization.  He was president of the AHA Virginia Affiliate in 1982 and moved on to serve as the AHA representative to the National High Blood Pressure Education Coordinating Committee from 1984 through 1989, receiving the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s (NHLBI) Recognition Award for his contributions to hypertension management in the United States.  He continues as a consultant to the National High Blood Pressure Education Program at the NHLBI and as a Fellow in the AHA High Blood Pressure Research Council, serving as chairperson of the Council’s Committee on Professional and Public Education.

Dr. Moore has developed two major non-profit voluntary cardiovascular health organizations.  He co-founded with Dr. Carlos Ferrario in 1994 the Consortium for Southeastern Hypertension Control (COSEHC) which has developed 21 Cardiovascular Centers of Excellence and the first regional cardiovascular database.  In 1999, Dr. Moore and three other health care professionals organized the Dan River Region Cardiovascular Initiative Program (DRchip).  DRchip’s mission is to develop community methods to improve cardiovascular health.  It has developed a unique public middle school program to educate and to screen the children for cardiovascular risk, and it also provides extensive public and focused minority population screening and education.  The work of DRchip has been nationally recognized, and it received the International Society of Hypertension in Blacks (ISHIB) 2003 Community Service Award.

Dr. Moore and his wife, Janet, have two sons and a daughter-in-law, David Moore and wife Lisa of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Allan Moore of Boston, Massachusetts.