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71st APS President (1998-1999)
Luis Gabriel Navar
(b. 1941)
L. Gabriel (Gabby) Navar was born in El Paso, Texas, in 1941. He received
a B.S. degree from Texas A&M University in 1962 and his Ph.D. in physiology
from the University of Mississippi in 1966. Navar continued his postdoctoral
training at the University of Mississippi from 1966 to 1969. He was
appointed assistant professor at the University of Mississippi Medical
Center in 1967 and was promoted to associate professor in 1971. He then
moved to Duke University from 1972 to 1973 and then was hired at the
University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1974. He was promoted to professor
and senior scientist at UAB in 1976. He then accepted the chairmanship of
the Department of Physiology at Tulane University School of Medicine in 1988
where he currently remains.
Within the APS Navar has been active in five different sections: Renal,
Water and Electrolyte Homeostasis, Teaching of Physiology, Cell and General
Physiology, and Cardiovascular Sections. Committee membership has included
the Program Advisory and Executive Committees and the Porter Physiology
Development Committee. Navar served as Associate Editor for the American
Journal of Physiology: Renal, Fluid and Electrolyte Physiology. He was
elected to Council and served from 1991 to 1994.
Navar has also been active in other organizations. He was a member of the
IUPS Renal Commission. Navar has served as chairman of two FASEB summer
conferences, one in 1989 and one in 1992, as well as being on the FASEB
Conference Advisory Committee (1995-97). He continues to be active in the
American Heart Association, the American and International Societies of
Nephrology, AAAS, the American and International Societies of Hypertension,
ACDP (President, 1996), and the Microcirculatory Society. Navar has served
on the editorial boards of Kidney International, Hypertension
(Associate Editor, 1994), Kidney, and Clinical Science.
Navar has been a member of several review groups: NIH Pathology Study
Section and Ad Hoc Review Committees, the VA Merit Review Board, American
Heart Association's Cardio-Renal (Chairman, 1994) and Research Committee
review groups, and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Review
Committee B.
Navar has received numerous awards including a Research Career
Development Award (1974-79), National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute MERIT
Award (1988-97), AAAS Fellow (1996), and the Renal Section's Gottschalk
Distinguished Lectureship (1997).
Navar notes:
"We are entering a remarkably exciting period during which physiologists
will share the main responsibility for integrating the many discoveries made
possible by modern research approaches. An important goal is to position APS
so that it represents and serves the entire physiological constituency. We
should foster inclusiveness and embrace all levels of functional biology
ranging from molecular mechanisms to integrative functions of the intact
organism. We must encourage programs that support the training of
physiologists so that there will be physiologically oriented investigators
and educators in the next century. Our most formidable challenge is to
sponsor imaginative meetings, conferences, journals and educational programs
that are responsive to the needs of our emerging constituency. Working
together, we can ensure that APS provides the best opportunities for dynamic
discourse on the most exciting developments in the physiological sciences."
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