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)

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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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)

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)

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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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)

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)

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) 

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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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 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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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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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) 

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)

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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Barry Peterson develops new drugs for lung diseases at a drug company after a career teaching at a university (read more about Dr. Peterson)

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) 

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)

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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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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