Daniel T. Lackland is Professor of Epidemiology at the Medical University of South Carolina. He is a Fellow in the American College of Epidemiology and American Heart Association. He directs the Division of Translational Neuroscience and Population Studies, and the Master of Science in Clinical Research Program. Dr. Lackland was appointed to the panel for the Eighth Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC 8), and the work group for the NHLBI Clinical Guidelines for Cardiovascular Risk Reduction (Global Risk Assessment). He also served on the Evidence Rating Committee of the ACC/AHA Clinical Practice Guidelines (Hypertension). He chairs the Oversight Committee for AHA Strategically Focused Research Network on Hypertension and serves on the Data Safety Monitoring Board for several ongoing NIH sponsored clinical trials. In 2021, he was appointed the chair of the Executive Committee and Steering Committee for NHLBI Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study. Much of his research interest involves the population risk assessment of cardiovascular disease, stroke and hypertension. He is the principal investigator for the NIH-funded Black Pooling Project assessing the disparities in cardiovascular diseases and hypertension and is subcontract PI for “Impact of Nativity on Cardiometabolic Syndrome Factors” in the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) study. For more than two decades, he worked closely with the late Professor David Barker on the fetal and early life origins of high blood pressure and hypertension-related outcomes. In addition to these epidemiological investigations, Professor Lackland is involved in population high blood pressure control efforts with over 300 scientific journal publications. He is Immediate Past President of the World Hypertension League and serves on the boards of the World Hypertension League, Consortium for Southeastern Hypertension Control (COSEHC), and Charleston Chapter of American Heart Association, with past service on the boards of American Heart Association-Mid-Atlantic Affiliate (President) and Carolina Centers for Medical Excellence (Secretary). He is former Deputy Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Clinical Hypertension, Associate Editor for Ethnicity and Disease, and member of the editorial boards of Hypertension, and Advances in Cardiovascular Therapeutic.