Academia: Research focus
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Paco
Andrade always wanted to do biomedical research even though he
didn’t know anyone like that growing up. He now studies the muscles
of the eyes and voice box under normal conditions and during disease
at a major research university (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
wanted to be a chemist. But when she started working on physiology
problems and 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
studies the movement of ions in and out of cells, especially when it
doesn’t work right in some diseases (read more about
Dr. Benos) |
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Hannah Carey
wanted to be a vet. When she discovered research would let her study
how animals hibernate, that was much more exciting than treating
sick animals (read more about Dr.
Carey) |
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Greg
Florant studies hibernating marmots to find out whether their
increase in body fat for the winter causes them to show the health
consequences of obesity
(read more about Dr. Florant) |
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Carole Liedtke teaches students and does research on how the lungs
handle fluids, how this is changed by genetic diseases, and how to
correct this mistake so that the lungs can function normally. She
works hard for APS and just got elected to be on the APS Council and
help run the Society (read more about Dr. Liedtke) |
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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 started out studying agriculture and decided
to go to veterinary school. While in veterinary school, he became
more interested in the study of how the body functions which is
called Physiology. He then went to graduate school and specialized
in the function of the kidney and blood vessels and on the causes of
high blood pressure. Now he is Chair of the Physiology Department at
Tulane University (read more about
Dr. Navar) |
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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 studies the effect
pregnancy has on the regulation of blood flow in the uterine artery
during exercise (read more about Dr. O'Hagan) |
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David Pollock wanted to work for a drug
company finding new drugs to fight diseases and then decided to try
teaching and research at a college
(read more about Dr.
Pollock) |
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Thomas
Pressley wanted to study marine biology. Then he decided that
the physiology of cells was more interesting
(read more about Dr. Pressley) |
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Hector
Rasgado-Flores loves playing and composing music. His research
is on the movement of ions and volume regulation in muscle cells
during contraction
(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 how urine is concentrated in a
specific portion of the kidney. He did it by getting an M.D. instead
of a Ph.D. degree, so he also gets to treat patients (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 explores physiology of the
lungs at high altitude (Mt. Everest) and in deep space. He also
studies history, teaches, and writes books on all those subjects
(read more about Dr. West) |
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Irving Zucker
decided on career in physiology and studies what regulates certain
kinds of nerve activity in diseases like heart failure,
hypertension (high blood pressure), and diabetes. He is Chair of
the department at the University of Nebraska (read more about
Dr.
Zucker) |
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Academia: Teaching focus
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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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Greg
Florant studies hibernating marmots to find out whether their
increase in body fat for the winter causes them to show the health
consequences of obesity
(read more about Dr. Florant) |
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Barb Goodman
wanted to be a doctor, then decided to become a researcher studying
the lungs, and now enjoys working with South Dakota science teachers
and students
(read more about Dr.
Goodman) |
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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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James Norton
teaches physiology to medical students. He also does research on
dinosaurs and is trying to reconstruct their breathing apparatus to
figure out whether or not they were warm-blooded and more active
than modern reptiles (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 studies the effect
pregnancy has on the regulation of blood flow in the uterine artery
during exercise (read more about Dr. O'Hagan) |
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David Pollock wanted to work for a drug
company finding new drugs to fight diseases and then decided to try
teaching and research at a college
(read more about Dr.
Pollock) |
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Hector
Rasgado-Flores loves playing and composing music. His research
is on the movement of ions and volume regulation in muscle cells
during contraction
(read more about Dr.
Rasgado-Flores) |
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Jeff
Sands wanted to do research on how urine is concentrated in a
specific portion of the kidney. He did it by getting an M.D. instead
of a Ph.D. degree, so he also gets to treat patients (read more about
Dr. Sands) |
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John West explores physiology of the
lungs at high altitude (Mt. Everest) and in deep space. He also
studies history, teaches, and writes books on all those subjects
(read more about Dr. West) |
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Industry (Pharmaceutical or Biotech)
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Magdalena
Alonso-Galicia does research for a drug company to help discover
new and better drugs for people with cardiovascular diseases (read
more about Dr. Alonso-Galicia) |
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John
“Wick” Johnson studied diabetes for many years. Now he works for
a drug company helping to find potential new drugs and then work
them through the approval process to get them into doctors hands
(read more about Dr. Johnson) |
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Keri Kles is just
starting her career. She is working at Eli Lilly & Company (a
pharmaceutical company) as a scientific writer. She has the
opportunity to write about clinical trials that investigate
therapies for people with diabetes
(read more about Dr.
Kles) |
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Scott
Mittelstadt loves sports. He works for a drug company testing
how new drugs work on the heart, lungs, brain, and nerves of both
sick and healthy people over time
(read more about Dr.
Mittelstadt) |
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Karen Mittleman
started out studying exercise physiology and how the body regulates its
temperature even in the cold. Now she oversees medical/scientific writing
for a drug company, helping them publish results on new drugs
(read more about Dr.
Mittleman) |
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Barry Peterson develops new drugs for lung
diseases at a drug company after a career teaching at a university (read more about
Dr. Peterson) |
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Government and/or Military
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Robert Carter III
joined the US Army Reserves in graduate school. Now that he has his
Ph.D., he does research in the Army on human performance in hot and
cold weather and studies whether the injury and disease rates rise
because of the climate (read more about
Dr. Carter) |
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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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Non-profit
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Martin Frank manages 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 at the Howard Hughes
Medical Institute helping to fund students and schools
(read more about Dr. Galey) |
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Consulting
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Andrea Gwosdow did research but
decided she could do more by starting her own consulting company.
She helps scientists and health professionals (doctors, nurses,
pharmacists) explain what they do to reporters and other people and
bring better science education into the classroom (read more about Dr. Gwosdow) |
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