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Casey A. Kindig, Ph.D.
August 27, 1970 - April 24, 2004
It is with great sadness that we have to report the
tragic and untimely death in an automobile accident of Casey Kindig, Ph.D.
in San Diego on Saturday, April 24th. Casey was a Parker B.
Francis fellow and an Assistant Project Physiologist in the Division of
Physiology and the Department of Medicine. He came to UCSD in 2001 as an
NIH NRSA post-doctoral fellow to work with Dr. Michael C. Hogan. He
received his Parker B. Francis award in 2003 to utilize molecular techniques
using single skeletal muscle fibers to answer fundamental questions related
to cellular energetics. His doctoral training was at Kansas State
University in the Departments of Kinesiology, Anatomy and Physiology in the
areas of pulmonary and muscle gas exchange and microcirculation with Drs.
David C. Poole and Timothy I. Musch. He possessed tremendous drive and
abilities that encompassed integrated physiology in the whole animal and at
the muscle and cellular levels. As a rising star in the physiological
sciences, Casey has published more than 36 peer-reviewed papers (26 as a
graduate student!) and presented over 60 abstracts nationally and
internationally. He was amazingly successful in winning grant funding with
over $400,000 to his credit whilst at Kansas State University. Casey was
the winner of the 2004 American College of Sports Medicine New Investigator
Award to be conferred in Indianapolis at the annual meeting in June where he
was due to deliver a symposium presentation on single-fiber energetics. In
addition, Casey was an avid athlete and had competed in full Ironman
competitions and had run the Boston Marathon. He also played college
baseball at the University of Nebraska. Casey had accepted an assistant
professor position at the University of Kansas Medical Center in the
Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology. He, his fiancée, Dr.
Melissa Finley and their unborn son (to be named Casey) were to move to
Kansas in January, 2005. It is Casey’s parents (Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Kindig)
wishes that donations go towards a trust fund that will be set up in Casey
and Melissa’s son’s name. Mr. and Mrs. Kindig’s address is 1310, Branding
Iron Lane, Grand Island, Nebraska 68803.
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