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67th APS President (1994-1995)
Brian R. Duling
(b. 1937)
Brian R. Duling is the 67th President of the American Physiological
Society, succeeding William Dantzler. Duling has been active in Society
affairs since 1971.
He was born in Pueblo, Colorado, and received his bachelor's degree from
the University of Colorado. He received his PhD from the University of Iowa
in 1967. His PhD training was followed by a postdoctoral fellowship with
Robert M. Berne at the University of Virginia. Duling has remained at the
University of Virginia, where he is now Professor of Physiology and the
Director of the Cardiovascular Research Center. He is currently the holder
of the Robert M. Berne Chair in Cardiovascular Research.
Duling has been an active member of the Society, participating in a
variety of committees and in governance. He has served on the Membership
Committee, the Education Committee, the Committee on Committees, and the
Awards Committee. He was president of the Cardiovascular Section in 1986 and
served on Council from 1989 to 1992. Duling has been active in a variety of
other organizations, including the American Heart Association and the
Microcirculation Society, of which he was president in 1984. He served on
the Cardiovascular B Study Section from 1979 to 1983. Duling is the
recipient of a number of professional awards, including the Established
Investigators Award of the American Heart Association, the Robert Bennett
Bean Award for Teaching Excellence, Von Humboldt Fellowship, the Philip P.
Dow Award, the Philip Bard Award, the George Brown Award, the Eugene Landis
Award, the Abbott Award, and recently, a MERIT Award from the National
Institutes of Health.
Duling has been active in both research and teaching. His classroom
activities include the teaching of renal, cardiovascular, and respiratory
physiology to medical students, and a variety of graduate courses on the
microcirculation and on vascular biology. Duling's research has focused on
the interaction between oxygen utilization and regulation of blood flow. He
has authored 130 publications in the field. His particular contributions
have focused mainly on the role of oxygen in regulating vasomotor tone and
on the microvascular determinants of tissue oxygen delivery. The most recent
research concerns the role of the glycocalyx in regulating red cell
distribution, the cellular basis for conducted vasomotion in the arteriolar
wall.
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