These physiologists would like to tell you about their careers.
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Magdalena Alonso-Galicia
does research to help find new drugs for people with heart
disease (read more about Dr. Alonso-Galicia) |
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Paco Andrade always
wanted to do research even though he didn’t know anyone like that
growing up. He now studies the muscles of the eyes and voice box at
a major research school (read more about
Dr. Andrade) |
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Susan Barman studies the brain but never imagined that she’d be a scientist (read more about Dr. Barman) |
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Kim Barrett loved
doing chemistry experiments. But when she got to do physiology
experiments studying diseases in the gut, she found her true career
(read more about Dr. Barrett) |
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Dale Benos
wanted to be a doctor until he tried research. He works with cells
and what goes wrong when cells don’t work right (read
more about Dr. Benos) |
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Hannah Carey
wanted to be a vet. But she discovered that studying how animals
hibernate (sleep all winter) was more exciting than treating sick
animals (read more about Dr.
Carey) |
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Robert Carter
III joined the US Army Reserves in school. Now that he has his
degree, he does research in the Army on how well humans work in hot
and cold weather and whether they get sick more often (read more about Dr.
Carter) |
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Greg Florant studies whether
animals that get fat for the winter show the same health problems as
fat people (read more about Dr.
Florant) |
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Martin Frank runs the American Physiological Society
(read more about Dr.
Frank) |
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Bill Galey was a
teacher/researcher for 25 years at the University of New Mexico. Now
he’s trying a new career helping to fund students and schools (read more about Dr. Galey) |
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Barb Goodman
started out wanting to be a doctor, then decided she wanted to study
the lungs, and now helps teach students and teachers about
physiology (read more about Dr.
Goodman) |
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Andrea Gwosdow
did research and then started her own company to help scientists,
doctors, and nurses explain what they do to reporters, teachers and
other people (read more about Dr. Gwosdow) |
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Thomas Herzig is in the military and does research on
exercise in extreme conditions (read
more about Dr. Herzig) |
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John “Wick” Johnson
studied diabetes for many years. Now he helps find new drugs and
works with a drug company to get them to doctors to help make people
feel better (read more about Dr. Johnson) |
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Keri Kles is just starting her career.
She is working at Eli Lilly & Company (a drug company) as a
scientific writer. She writes about drugs for people with diabetes
(read more about Dr. Kles) |
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Carole Liedtke teaches students and studies how the lungs handle fluids
both in healthy and sick people. She works a lot for APS and just
got elected to be on the APS Council and help run it
(read more about Dr. Liedtke) |
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Scott Mittelstadt loves sports.
He works for a drug company to find out how new medicines work on
the heart, lungs, brain, and nerves of sick and healthy people over
time (read more about Dr.
Mittelstadt) |
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Karen Mittleman
started out studying exercise and how the body keeps its temperature
up even in the cold. Now she oversees medical/scientific writing for
a drug company, helping them let people know about new drugs (read more about Dr.
Mittleman) |
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Evangeline Motley studies high blood pressure and
encourages minority students to become scientists (read
more about Dr. Motley) |
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L. Gabriel Navar grew up learning about farming and ranching
but then wanted to be a veterinarian. He became more interested in
how the body functions which is called Physiology. Now he is chair
of a large physiology department at a big medical school (read more
about Dr. Navar) |
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James Norton
teaches medical students all about physiology. He also does research
on dinosaurs and how they breathed, trying to figure out if they
were warm-blooded (read more about
Dr. Norton) |
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Kathy O’Hagan decided that she
liked teaching as much as research, so she looked for a job that
would let her do both. She looks at how blood flow in the heart and
kidneys works during exercise (read more about Dr. O'Hagan) |
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Barry Peterson develops new drugs for lung diseases at
a drug company after working and teaching a long time at a college (read more about
Dr. Peterson) |
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David Pollock started out working for a
drug company trying to find new drugs to fight diseases and then
decided to try teaching at a college (read more about Dr.
Pollock) |
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Thomas Pressley wanted to study
animals that lived in the ocean. Then he decided that learning about
cells was more interesting (read more about Dr.
Pressley) |
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Hector Rasgado-Flores loves
music, both playing and writing it. He studies how muscle cells
change when you move your arm (read more about
Dr.
Rasgado-Flores) |
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Michael Romero studies cells and is married to another
physiologist (read
more about Dr. Romero) |
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Jeff Sands wanted
to do research on the kidney. He did it by getting an M.D. instead
of a Ph.D. degree, so he also gets to help people who are sick (read more about
Dr. Sands) |
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Caroline Sussman wanted to be a dancer but decided instead to find out how cells
determine their identities, for example, become brain cells instead
of skin or muscle cells (read more about
Dr. Sussman) |
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John West
not only does research on the lungs on high mountains and in deep
space, but also likes history, teaching, and writing books (read more about Dr.
West) |
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Irving Zucker
decided studying physiology was the best way to get the answers to
all the questions he had about how the body worked when healthy or
sick. He is the Chair of a department at a big school in Nebraska (read more about
Dr.
Zucker) |
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