Tonya Breaux-Shropshire

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Tonya Breaux-Shropshire

Tonya Breaux-Shropshire is IN! Dr. Tonya Breaux-Shropshire is a Clinical Scientist specializing in Hypertension Research and a Certified Family Nurse Practitioner at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She also works at the Women’s Infant Center and hosts the Mother Baby Daddy Podcast. Additionally, Dr. Breaux-Shropshire hosts the Hypertension Resistant to Treatment Podcast. A former postdoctoral scholar in the School of Medicine and a VA Quality Scholar, she led critical improvements in hypertension management metrics in primary care clinics. She was also the lead coordinator for the SPRINT Study, the landmark trial that influenced the 2017 hypertension guidelines. Dr. Breaux-Shropshire was the first to study home blood pressure monitoring and medication adherence at UAB. Her doctoral nursing project was entitled “Use of Automated Office Blood Pressure Monitoring.”