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Newly Elected APS Officers Announced for 2006-2007
APS Welcomes New Additions to Its Governance
Incoming president Benos: ‘member activism’ the call to action
Bethesda, Md. – New members of the American
Physiological Society’s (APS) governing body will be installed in San
Francisco, at the APS annual meeting April 5, held in conjunction with the
Experiment Biology 2006 meeting: Advancing the Biomedical Frontier.
New 2006 APS Officers
Dale J. Benos, Ph.D. – President, 2006-2007
Benos is the Endowed Professor of Physiology and
Biophysics as well as the chairman of the Department of Physiology and
Biophysics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The main research
objective of his laboratory is elucidating the molecular basis of operation
of epithelial and astrocyte ion channels and transporters.
An active APS member since 1982, Benos recently ended a
six-year term as chairman of the APS Publications Committee. He has served
as an Awards Committee member and chair, has been a member of the Program
Advisory Committee, and has served as an APS Councilor. Benos has also
served as editor of the American Journal of Physiology–Cell Physiology
and is a current member of the journal’s editorial board.
Benos “would like to make member activism the defining
phrase of my year as APS President. Science in general and physiology in
particular are at a crossroads. Never before in history have scientists
possessed the tools to address so many sophisticated and important
questions. If you are an APS member who wants to promote the discovery and
dissemination of acquired knowledge to the scientific and lay communities,
you are the kind of active participant in the Society that will help make a
difference for APS and the physiological sciences.”
Hannah V. Carey, Ph.D.
– President-Elect, 2006-2007
Carey is a professor of comparative biosciences at the
University Of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine. Her current research
program focuses on adaptations of the gastrointestinal tract to hibernation
in mammals, and the translation of hibernation-based protection to
biomedical issues such as organ preservation, ischemia-reperfusion injury
and hemorrhagic shock.
An active APS member since 1985, Carey has served as a
member and chair of the Women in Physiology Committee, Membership Committee,
GI and Liver Section Steering Committee, and the Communications Committee.
She also served as an APS Councilor and as chair of the Committee on
Committees. Carey served as a member of the editorial board of the
American Journal of Physiology–Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative
Physiology and is currently a member of the editorial board of the
American Journal of Physiology– Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology.
Douglas C. Eaton, Ph.D.
– President, 2005-2006
Eaton is a Distinguished
Professor of Physiology at Emory University School of Medicine and is
director of Emory's Center for Cell and Molecular Signaling. His research
focuses on the process cells use to recognize and respond to external
events, and how abnormalities in cellular signaling are associated with
specific disease processes. Eaton also directs the FIRST Program (Fellows
in Research and Science Teaching), an NIH-funded initiative that pairs Emory
University with the three Atlanta minority-serving institutions, Spelman
College, Morehouse College, and Clark-Atlanta University.
Since joining APS in 1981,
Eaton has been an active member, most recently serving as a Councilor and as
President for 2005-2006. He has been a steering committee member and Chair
of the Epithelial Transport Group, and has served as a member of the Program
Advisory and Porter Physiology Development committees. Eaton has also
participated in the APS Frontiers of Physiology as a research host
for K-12 science teachers. He has previously been an associate editor for
the American Journal of Physiology – Cell Physiology and is currently
an associate editor for American Journal of Physiology – Renal Physiology.
During his tenure, the APS
has developed a new Strategic Plan which will guide the Society for the next
five year period. Also, in response to the devastation caused by hurricane
Katrina to the Gulf coast including the Departments of Physiology at
universities within the affected area, the APS sponsored a grant-in-aid
program to help junior scientists recover from storm losses. Finally, the
APS has begun to take a more active role in promoting to Congress and the
Administration the value of biomedical research as a source of improved
healthcare for all Americans.
James W. Hicks Ph.D. – APS Councilor, 2006-2009
Hicks is a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology, University of California–Irvine. His research is divided among
three broadly defined areas: examining evolutionary aspects of the
vertebrate cardiopulmonary system with an emphasis on determining the
functional role of central vascular shunts in "lower" vertebrates, studies
on comparative aspects of vertebrate gas exchange with specific emphasis on
the cardiopulmonary response to elevated metabolic states associated with
temperature, activity and digestion; and investigating the effects of
gravity on the vertebrate cardiovascular system. His laboratory provides a
phylogenetic perspective into circulation and respiration and seeks to
discover not only differences among organisms, but the unifying principles
shared by diverse organisms. He is the chair of the APS Comparative and
Evolutionary Physiology Section and previously served as a member of the
Joint Program Committee.
Dee U. Silverthorn, Ph.D. – APS
Councilor, 2006-2009
Silverthorn is a senior lecturer in
Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. Her bench research
interest is epithelial transport but in recent years she has concentrated on
the development of inquiry-based student laboratories and strategies for
incorporating active learning into traditional lecture classrooms. Since
joining APS in 1977, Silverthorn has served as Chair of the Teaching Section
and was on the APS Archives Undergraduate Collection Development Committee
and the Task Force on Animals in Education. She is currently editor-in-chief
of Advances in Physiology Education.
Michael J. Wyss, Ph.D. – APS Councilor, 2006-2009
Wyss is professor of Cell Biology, Medicine,
Neurobiology and Psychology and director of the Center for Community
OutReach Development at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is on
the editorial board of the
American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative
Physiology and the Education Committee of the APS. He
has also served on the CNS Section Steering Committee as secretary and
chair, on the Joint Programming Committee and on the Section Advisory
Committee of APS. He is also a member of the Council on Accreditation of
AAALAC International.
His research includes two
major areas. The first research focus is on neuronal plasticity, especially
related to diseases of aging. These studies have demonstrated dynamic
interplay between neuromodulators in the brain, calcium regulation by
neurons and the structural alterations of neurons that occur in these
age-related diseases. The second focus of his research involves the role of
the central nervous system in the pathogenesis of hypertension. In these
studies his group is testing the mechanisms by which a decrease in
norepinephrine release in the anterior hypothalamic nucleus leads to
salt-sensitive hypertension.
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http://www.the-aps.org/about/governance.htm.
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