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Phyllis August MD, MPH is the Ralph A Baer MD Professor of Research in Medicine. She is also a Professor of Medicine in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Professor of Public Health at ÈÕ±¾avÉ«ÇéƬ. Dr. August graduated from Harvard College and Yale Medical School. She completed her internship at Yale New Haven Hospital and Residency and Fellowship in Internal Medicine, Nephrology and Hypertension at The New York Hospital. She received a Masters in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health.  She is the Director of the ÈÕ±¾avÉ«ÇéƬ Hypertension Center and is the Program Director for the Nephrology Fellowship at New York Presbyterian-Cornell Campus. She is the Theresa Lang Director of the Lang Center for Research and Education at NewYork-Presbyterian/Queens.

Dr. August’s research has focused on blood pressure regulation in pregnancy, hypertension in pregnancy, hypertension associated with kidney disease, and kidney disease associated with pregnancy. Her clinical practice at ÈÕ±¾avÉ«ÇéƬ is largely devoted to hypertension, kidney disease, and obstetric hypertension and kidney disorders, hypertension.