D. Walter Wray, Ph.D., is a Professor of Internal Medicine in the Division of Geriatrics, an Adjuct Professor in the Department of Nutrition & Integrative Physiology, and a VA Investigator at the SLC VA Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center. He is a founding member of the Utah Vascular Research Laboratory (www.uvrl.org), a consortium that is affiliated with both the University of Utah and the SLC VA Medical Center. Dr. Wray maintains an active, extramurally-funded research program within the UVRL that is broadly focused on vascular and autonomic physiology, with an emphasis on aging and age-related diseases such as chronic heart failure (HF). Current projects include studies examining neurohumoral control of muscle blood flow at rest and during acute exercise, and studies focused on determining the causes and consequences of chronic sympathoexcitation in HF.