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Center for Pediatric Hypotensive Disease

Founded in 1988, the Center for Pediatric Hypotensive Disease aims to study physiological processes related to orthostatic intolerance and other transient hypotensive states in children, adolescents, and young adults, including postural tachycardia syndrome (POTS), postural hyperpnea, and vasovagal faint.

Research Focus

  • Measures of central and peripheral blood flow and blood volume, and their control by the autonomic nervous system and factors which modulate autonomic regulation. This includes circulatory dysfunction in chronic fatigue syndrome, circulatory control in forms of orthostatic intolerance, studies of the interactions between chemoreceptors and baroreceptors in conscious humans, measurements, and control of the sympathetic nervous system in childhood obesity.
  • The development of practical tools to assess microvascular function and fluid flow in patients with renal failure.

Contacts

Julian M. Stewart M.D., Ph.D.
Center Director 
Professor of Pediatrics, Physiology, and Medicine
Center for Hypotension 
Telephone: (914) 594-4370
Fax: (914) 593-8890
E-mail: julian_stewart@nymc.edu

Marvin Medow
Associate Director
Professor of Pediatrics and Physiology 
Center for Hypotension 

Telephone: (914) 593-8888
Fax: (914) 593-8890
E-mail: marvin_medow@nymc.edu