Adam Greenstein

Overview

Dr Adam Greenstein is a consultant physician with responsibility for general medicine,geriatrics and hypertension. 

Dr Greenstein leads a laboratory research programme investigating why people develop hypertension when they put on weight. Adam's work builds on discoveries made in 2009 demonstrating that fat surrounding blood vessels secretes hormones which lower blood pressure. However, in obese patients, the secretory profile of the fat changes and loss of these hormones leads to abnormal vascular function and hypertension.

Biography

Dr Adam Greenstein trained in medicine at the University of Manchester, during which he also completed an undergraduate degree in Pharmacology. After completion of junior doctor posts in Manchester, he trained in general and geriatric medicine at Leeds General Infirmary. His PhD, undertaken at the university of Manchester investigated the interplay between adipose tissue and small resistance arteries in obesity and hypertension.

Dr Greenstein has published his work in journals such as Circulation, Hypertension and the journal of Hypertension in addition to presenting workshops and new data on the microcirculation at major international conferences. His work is funded in its entirety by the British Heart Foundation. His focus of the lab is on the mechanisms by which adipose tissue (fat) influences blood vessel function, how this adipose-vascular coupling is dysregulated in obesity and subsequently why hypertension develops following weight gain.