Medical Advisory Board

SunTech®'s highly regarded Medical Advisory Board guides the development of new approaches to address unmet needs in diagnostic monitoring. Board members collaboratively lend their clinical knowledge and expertise in blood pressure monitoring and patient treatment across a broad spectrum of medical specialties.

Dr. William White

Chair of SunTech's Medical Advisory Board, a Professor in the Department of Medicine and Chief of Hypertension and Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine where he has worked for over 20 years. In addition, he is the founding editor of Blood Pressure Monitoring and a member of 9 editorial boards, including The American Journal of Cardiology, The American Journal of Medicine, and The American Journal of Hypertension. Dr. White has a long-standing interest in clinical hypertension, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, and clinical trials of antihypertensive drugs.

Dr. Bruce Alpert

Dr. Bruce Alpert is on staff at the Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center and is the Plough Foundation Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.  He is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics, Sub Board of Pediatric Cardiology.  Dr. Alpert co-Chairs the AAMI Sphygmomanometer Committee and served as the Program Director of the UTHSC General Clinical Research Center for a decade.  Dr. Alpert has devoted his career to extensive cardiovascular research, leading or contributing to over 150 research studies and has had NIH R01 funding for 22 out of the last 26 years.  He has published more than 400 manuscripts, abstracts and book chapters.

Dr. Sandeep Gavankar

Currently in private practice in Cary, North Carolina, is board certified in Family Medicine and holds a Certificate of Added Qualification in Sports Medicine. He is the head team physician for Raleigh Rugby and SE Raleigh HS. He is also the assistant team physician for the Carolina Hurricanes and the Carolina Ballet. Dr. Gavankar is a community preceptor for the Family Medicine residency at UNC, Chapel Hill.

Dr. Robert E. Gwyther

Formerly a Professor of Family Medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, is currently Director of Medical Student Programs. He is also the past President of the NC Academy of Family Physicians. Dr. Gwyther is a charter member of the Society of Addiction Medicine and has served as Secretary and Vice President.

Dr. Ron Prineas

Dr. Ron Prineas has extensive experience in cardiovascular disease epidemiological studies particularly with high blood pressure methodology and population electrocardiology. He is the senior author of the Minnesota Code Manual of Electrocardiographic Findings and has chaired or is a member of all committees as they relate to the longitudinal epidemiologic studies conducted by NHLBI over the past 30 years. Dr. Prineas holds a M.B.B.S. (MD equivalent) from the University of Sydney, Australia, a Ph.D. from the University of London, and was a fellow at the prestigious London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Dr. L. Michael Prisant

Dr. L. Michael Prisant is a noninvasive cardiologist at the Medical College of Georgia and a Professor of Medicine and the Director of Hypertension and Clinical Pharmacology. He is a certified American Society of Hypertension Specialist in Clinical Hypertension and is on the Editorial Board of Blood Pressure Monitoring, Heart Disease, and Journal of Clinical Hypertension. His primary research interests include the pharmacological treatment of hypertension and lipid disorders, heart failure, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and vascular compliance.

Dr. Domenic Sica

Dr. Domenic Sica is a Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology at the Medical College of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia where he also serves as the Chairman of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Hypertension. Dr. Sica's research areas of interest include the pharmacotherapy of hypertension, cardiovascular risk factors in adolescent African-Americans, circadian variation in disease states, the pharmacokinetics of drugs in renal failure, as well as the role of the renin-angiotensin axis in disease state presentation and/or progression.

Dr. Andrew Sherwood

Dr. Andrew Sherwood is Professor of Medical Psychology and Director of the Biobehavioral Research Laboratory at Duke University Medical Center. He is a fellow of the Society of Behavioral Medicine and the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research.His research focuses on physiological pathways linking behavior and lifestyle factors to cardiovascular disease. Dr. Sherwood is currently Principal Investigator of studies at Duke examining vascular regulation in postmenopausal women, biobehavioral aspects of prognosis in heart failure, and the causes and consequences of high nighttime blood pressure. He is also Co-Principal Investigator of an ongoing randomized clinical trial evaluating diet and exercise interventions for the treatment of hypertension.