Babbette LamarcaDr. Babbette LaMarca completed her Ph.D. in 2004 from Microbiology/Immunology, postdoctoral training in Physiology and joined the UMMC faculty in 2008. She is a professor in Pharmacology and Toxicology with a secondary appointment in Ob/Gyn, as Thesi Director of Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellowship Program. She serves as peer reviewer for the AHA/Immunology Section, Preeclampsia Foundation, NIH/NHLBI since 2014 and was Chair-AHA Clinical Endothelial Vascular Biology Clinical 2014-2017. Dr Lamarca has published over 100 peer review articles and presented 150 abstracts at national or international meetings. She is active in the American Physiological Society and was the At-Large Councilor for Membership 2012-2016 for the Water and Electrolyte Homeostasis Section and has served on Committee on Careers in Physiology and currently serves on the Awards Committee 2016-2019, she is currently the Basic Science Councilor for Perinatal research society. Dr. LaMarca serves on Editorial Boards for Hypertension, AJP-Regu and Clinical and Experimental Hypertension. She is a mentor for UMMC Base Pair program, member of Institutional Biosafety Committee, Graduate Faculty, Research Advisory Committee, the Women's Health Research Center, at UMMC. Her previous awards include the Young Investigator from Inter-American Society of Hypertension, 2012 Young Scholars from American Society of Hypertension, a recipient of Excellence in Research from UMMC (Bronze 2010, Silver 2012 and Gold 2013) and the 2015 recipient of the Henry Pickering Bowditch lectureship from the APS. Dr LaMarca utilizes various animal models of preeclampsia to examine mechanisms of this disease. Dr. LaMarca combines basic science with clinical research to investigate how inflammation mediates renal and placental dysfunction leading to hypertension during preeclampsia. Read More Read Less