Professor Schlaich is a renal physician and an ESH accredited hypertension specialist. He has a specific interest in treatment modalities targeting the sympathetic nervous system and has contributed to the development of renal denervation as a novel therapeutic approach to hypertension. He has authored more than 340 articles and book chapters in peer reviewed journals and serves as President of the High Blood Pressure Research Council of Australia and on the Executive Committee of the International Society of Hypertension. He holds the inaugural Dobney Chair in Clinical Research at the Royal Perth Hospital and the University of Western Australia.