John Chalmers

John Philip Chalmers (born 12 January 1937) is an Australian medical researcher, best known for his work in the field of cardiovascular physiology, specifically for his research into hypertension. He is an Emeritus Professor of Medicine at both the University of Sydney and Flinders University in Adelaide and a professor of medicine at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Chalmers is also a senior director at the George Institute for Global Health. Education Chalmers graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Science in 1960, followed by a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery in 1963. In 1967, he completed a PhD at the University of New South Wales, researching the control of blood pressure by the nervous system which he then pursued as an overseas research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston and the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London.