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Dr. de Groat is professor of pharmacology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical School. He received a Ph.D. in pharmacology at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. Dr. de Groat obtained postdoctoral training in pharmacology at the University of Pennsylvania and in Neurophysiology at the John Curtin School for Medical Research in Canberra, Australia. He joined the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh in 1968. He has been a visiting scientist at the National Institutes of Health and a visiting professor at the University College London. Dr. de Groat is a member of various societies and he has served on numerous editorial boards of such journals as: Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, American Journal of Physiology, Urology, Neurourology and Urodynamics, Autonomic Neuroscience, Life Sciences and Current Opinion in Central and Peripheral Nervous System Investigational Drugs. He has been treasurer and a member of the Executive Council of the Society for Neuroscience and the executive vice president of the International Society for Autonomic Neuroscience. Dr. de Groat has a long list of awards, including an NIH MERIT Award, as well as catalog of over 300 published papers in the fields of autonomic neuroscience and neurourology. | 