Domenic A. Sica, M.D.

Domenic A. Sica, M.D.

Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, Virginia Commonwealth University Health System

Dr. Sica obtained his medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia; he completed his medicine training at the Medical College of Virginia and a three-year nephrology fellowship at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. Dr. Sica returned as faculty member at the Medical College of Virginia in 1981 where he is currently Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology and also serves as the Chairman of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Hypertension. Dr. Sica is board certified in medicine, nephrology, hypertension, and clinical pharmacology and has published extensively in the area(s) of hypertension, renal disease, and drug pharmacokinetics with over 650 abstracts, publications, and chapters to his credit. Research areas of interest include the pharmacotherapy of hypertension, cardiovascular risk factors in adolescent African-Americans, circadian variation in disease states, the pharmacokinetics of drugs in renal failure, as well as the role of the renin-angiotensin axis in disease state presentation and/or progression. He was the recipient of the ASH Marvin Moser Clinical Hypertension Award in 2009.