Dr. McCormick completed his PhD in the laboratory of Dr. Jonathan Seckl in Edinburgh, UK.  During his graduate work, he focused on transcriptional regulation of the  glucocorticoid receptor, a key mediator of perinatal “programming” of adult  diseases such as hypertension and dementia. He completed an American Heart  Association-funded postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. David Pearce in the  Division of Nephrology at UCSF, studying the physiological roles of serum and  glucocorticoid-induced kinase (SGK)  isoforms, and how they differentially regulate renal sodium transport. He  joined the Division of Nephrology & Hypertension at OHSU in 2005. His  current work uses mouse models to examine mechanisms of blood pressure regulation.