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Martin G. Myers, MD, FRCP(C), is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto, where he taught for many years, and remains an affiliate scientist with the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, where he carried out research on hypertension and other areas of cardiology for more than four decades. He received his medical degree from the University of Toronto and completed postgraduate training in internal medicine and cardiology in Toronto. He developed an interest in hypertension during a research fellowship in clinical pharmacology at the Hammersmith Hospital in London, England. Dr. Myers has been active in hypertension research at both the national and international level. He originated the idea of the Canadian Hypertension Society in 1977 and has been a member of the International Society of Hypertension since 1978. Over the past two decades his research interests have encompassed a wide range of topics. He was among the first to describe the dose-response characteristics of antihypertensive drugs. He introduced 24-hour ambulatory BP monitoring into Canada in 1985 and in 1991 proposed the concept of the "white-coat effect" to describe office-induced hypertension in treated patients. A key research interest has been blood pressure measurement, especially the development of automated office blood pressure measurement as a replacement for the traditional manual measurement of blood pressure.

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