Membership

As originally published in The Physiologist
Volume 45, Number 2, April 2002, page 104

New Regular Members
New Student Members
Deceased Emeritus Members

New Regular Members
*transferred from Student Membership

Adwoa Dansoa Aduonum 
  Emory Univ. School of Medicine, GA
Lorraine M. Albritton 
  Univ. of Tennessee Health Sci. Ctr.
Nicholas Ashton 
  Univ. of Manchester, England
Anand R. Asthagiri 
  California Inst. of Technology
Anthony Auerbach 
  Univ. of Buffalo
Robert A. Augustyniak* 
  Univ. of Texas SW Medical Center
Mahmoud Bahmani 
  Int’l Surgeon Res. Inst, Iran
Ratan Kumar Banik 
  Riem Negoya Univ., Japan
Gary F. Baxter 
  Univ. of London, Royal Vet College, England
Carlos Raul Cassanello 
  Univ. of California, San Francisco
Paul Steven Cooke 
  Univ. of Illinois
Constance B. Corll 
  LSU Health Science Center
Maria J.A. Da Rocha 
  Univ. of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Alexandr M. Degtyarenko 
  Univ. of California, Davis
Barbara Driscoll 
  CHLA Research Inst, Los Angeles, CA
Dayue Duan 
  Univ. of Nevada, Reno
Brian Donovan Eads 
  Univ. of Wisconsin
Susan L. Edwards 
  Georgia Southern Univ., Statesboro
Zoltan H. Endre 
  Univ. of Queenland, Australia
Kathleen M. Eyster 
  Univ. of South Dakota
Robert A. Fenton 
  NIH, Bethesda, MD
Ryan Michael Fryer 
  Brigham Women’s Hosp/HMS, MA
J. David Furlow 
  Univ. of California, Davis
Lara Renee Gawenis 
  Univ. of Missouri, Columbia
Peter L. Goldberg* 
  Brigham Women’s Hosp/HMS, MA
Eileen Frances Grady 
  Univ. of California, San Francisco
Arie B.J. Groeneveld 
  VU Med Center, Netherlands
Theresa R. Grover
  Univ. of Colorado
Kamalesh K. Gulia 
  All India Inst of Med Scis, New Delhi, India
Thomas Vincent Hancock 
  James Madison Univ., VA
Jeffrey R. Henegar* 
  Univ. of Missisippi Med Ctr
Merrill Burr Hille 
  Univ. of Washington
Serabi Hirasawa 
  Johns Hopkins Univ., MD 
Paul A. Iaizzo 
  Univ. of Minnesota
Immaculata Ngozi Igbo
  Prairie View A&M Univ., TX
Joanna B. Kitlinska
  Georgetown Univ. Med. Ctr.,DC
Patrick E. Kudlacek 
  Univ. of Nebraska Medical Center
Gerald D. Larson 
  Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City
Claude Leoty
  Univ. of Nantes, France
Pin-Lan Li
  Medical College of Wisconsin
Jiankang Liu
  Univ. of Mississippi Medical Center
Milos Ljubisavljevic 
  United Arab Emirates Univ.
Luis A. Martinez-Lemus
  Texas A&M Univ. 
Donogh F. McKeogh 
  Oregon Health & Sciences Univ.
Sanjay Mehta 
  London Health Sciences Ctr, Canada
Igor B. Mekjavic 
  Inst. Jozef Stefan, Slovenia
Lizbeth M. Mino 
  Concordia Univ. of Wisconsin, Mequon
Julia Ann Moffitt* 
  Wartburg College, IA
A P. Naren
  Univ. of Tennessee Health Sci. Ctr.
Jenny Oldham 
  Agresearch, New Zealand
Sandrine V. Pierre 
  Texas Tech Univ. Health Sci. Ctr.
Philip Posner 
  Auburn Univ., AL
Helle A. Praetorius 
  Univ. of Aarhus, Denmark
Sasanka Ramanadham 
  Washington Univ. School of Medicine
Andrew F. Russo
  Univ. of Iowa
Amal M. Saeed
  Univ. of Khartoum, Sudan
Susmu Sakata 
  Nara Med Univ., Japan
Jun-ichi Satch 
  Case Western Univ. School of Med., OH
Kenneth A Schenkman
  Univ. of Washington 
Barry W. Scheuermann* 
  Texas Tech Univ.
Anne-Marie L. Seymour
  Univ. of Hull, England 
Vijay Prem Singh 
  Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Ctr.
Craig Smith 
  Univ. of Manchester, England
Arthur R. Strauch 
  Ohio State Univ. College of Medicine
Adam Parsons Summers 
  Univ. of California, Irvine
Qingmua Sun 
  Columbia Univ., NY
H. Lee Sweeney 
  Univ. of Pennsylvania School of Med.
Kirti P. Tewari 
  Univ. of Cincinnati College of Med.
Chinnaswamy Tiruppathi
  Univ. of Illinois 
David W. Towle 
  Mt Desert Island Biological Lab, Salsbury Cove, ME
Jeffrey Scott Upperman
  Univ. of Pittsburgh 
Ivana Vaneckova 
  Inst. for Clinical & Experimental Medicine, Czech 
  Republic
Carlos G. Vanoye 
  Vanderbilt Univ. Medical Center, TN
Jacques Van Rooyen 
  Univ. of Stellenbosh, South Africa
Mitchel L. Villereal 
  Univ. of Chicago
Linda Vona-Davis 
  West Virginia Univ.
Anagela Wandinger-Ness
  Univ. of New Mexico 
Jun Wang
  Univ. of California, Berkeley
Peipei Wang 
  Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham
Peiyi Wang 
  Johns Hopkins Univ., MD
Yungeng Wang 
  Inst. of Oceanology, P.R. China
Zhongbiao Wang 
  Mercer Univ. School of Medicine, GA
Christian Wegener 
  Stockholm Univ., Sweden 
Hui Xu 
  Michigan State Univ.
Peixin Yang 
  Univ. of Nebraska Medical Center
Yan Yang 
  Univ. of Missouri
Dan Ye
  Mayo Clinic, MN
Hironobu Yoshimatsu 
  School of Med. Oita Med Univ., Oita, Japan
Yong Yuan 
  Univ. of Cincinnati, OH
Tania Zenteno-Savin* 
  Cibnor, Mexico
Xin-Zhou Zhang 
  Shenzhen Peoples Hosp-Jinan Univ.
  Peoples Republic of China
Jia Zhuo 
  Henry Ford Health Sci. Ctr., MI
Yun-Ping Zhou 
  Metabolex Inc, Hayward, CA
Lea Ziskind-Conhaim 
  Univ. of Wisconsin Medical School

New Student Members

Misty M. Becerra 
  Florida Atlantic Univ.
Pamela Janet Boyd
  York Univ., Ontario, Canada
Kenneth Joseph Cavanaugh
  Univ. of Pennsylvania
Song Yang Chen
  Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY
Bill Drougas
  Univ. of Ioannina, Greece
Joseph Gerald Duman
  Univ. of California, Berkeley
Russ D. Ensign
  Univ. of Akron, OH
Niels Hadrup
  Univ. of Copenhagen, Denmark
Surovi Hazarika 
  East Carolina Univ., NC 
Lisa Lesniewski 
  Texas A&M Univ.
Timothy Eric Lindley
  Univ. of Iowa
James Joseph Mann
  Michigan State Univ.
Fernando Luis Martin 
  Inst Privedo Esp Med Cordoba, Argentina
Liliana Martinez 
  Benemerita Univ. 
Autoromade Puebla
  Puebla, Mexico
Kellie A. Merrigan 
  Univ. of Nebraska
Aimee Jennifer Nelson
  Univ. of Toronto Inst. Med. Sci.
Tung Hoang Ngo 
  Univ. of California, Los Angeles
Rebecca Lynn Nolan 
  East Carolina Univ., NC
Alexander V. Ovechkin
  Univ. of Louisville, KY
Fredrik N.A. Palm
  Uppsala Univ., Sweden
Amy M. Pastva
  Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham
Todd Allan Ponzio 
  Univ. of California, Riverside
Sylvia Quant
  Univ. of Toronto
Pascale M. Rabbah
  Rutgers Univ.
Sripriya Raman
  Lousiana State Univ. Health Sci. Ctr.
Stacy Richards 
  Florida Atlantic Univ.
Vandana Sarin 
  Texas A&M Univ. Health Science Ctr.
Christopher D. Sharp 
  Lousiana State Univ. Health Science Ctr.
Kennie Raviie Shepherd
  Florida A&M Univ.
Zohreh Nemati Sirous 
  Univ. of Mississippi Medical Center
James A. Supak 
  Univ. of Texas
Rebin Thomas Titus
  Texas Tech Univ.
Nicole H. Urban 
  Eastern Virginia Medical School
Yan Wang
  Kansas State Univ.
Michael L. Weldy 
  Univ. of Mississippi
Linda D. Wilkin 
  Ohio State Univ.
Kylie Ann Woods
  Univ. of Nebraska Medical Center
Yi Xie
  Univ. of Alabama At Birmingham
John K. Zehmer 
   Arizona State Univ.

Deceased Emeritus Members

Harry F. Adler 
  San Antonio, TX 
Willard M. Allen 
  Baltimore, MD 
Kenneth A. Arendt 
  Loma Linda, CA 
William S. Battersby 
  East Northport, NY 
Harry D. Bouman 
  Phoenix, AZ 
Ernest B. Brown 
  Lehigh Acres, FL 
Carl A. Bunde 
  Milford, OH 
Alfred H. Chambers 
  Jericho, VT 
Aurin M. Chase 
  Jamesburg, NJ 
Leon C. Chesley 
  Valley Stream, NY 
Hugo P. Chiodi 
  Chatsworth, CA 
Leon Churney 
  New Orleans, LA 
Rollin H. Denniston 
  Laramie, WY 
John F. Dimmick 
  Winston-Salem, NC
Robert W. Dougherty 
  Ames, IA 
Charles H. Ellis 
  Lynn, MA 
Thomas E. Emerson, Jr.
  Sacramento, CA 
B. Raymond Fink 
  Seattle, WA 
Anthony P. Fletcher 
  St. Louis, MO 
Gordon N. French 
  West Grove, PA 
Dale P.J. Goldsmith 
  Omaha, NE 
Helmut A. Gordon 
  San Diego, CA 
Francisco Grande 
  Zaragoza, Spain 
Victor Guillemin 
  Kingston, MA 
Henry Haimovici 
  New York, NY 
Stephen Hajdu 
  Bethesda, MD 
Franz X. Hausberger 
  Philadelphia, PA 
Russell A. Huggins 
  Houston, TX 
Robert A. Kehoe 
  Cincinnati, OH 
Daniel L. Kline 
  Cincinnati, OH 
Eszter B. Kokas 
  Chapel Hill, NC 
Charles E. Lane 
  Vero Beach, FL 
Stanley Lang 
  St. Louis, MO 
Paul S. Larson 
  Richmond, VA 
Harry H. LeVeen 
  Camden, SC 
Melvin Levitt
 
  Winston-Salem, NC 
John C. Lilly 
  Malibu, CA 
Rafael Lorente De No 
  Tucson, AZ 
Martin B. Macht 
  Cincinnati, OH 
Emanuel E. Mandel 
  Great Neck, NY 
Frank J. McGuigan 
  San Diego, CA 
Jack Metcoff 
  N. Chicago, IL 
George W. Molnar 
  Little Rock, AR 
Hurley L. Motley 
  Newport Beach, CA 
Joseph J. Peters 
  Cincinnati, OH 
Irwin J. Pincus 
  Beverly Hills, CA 
Gilbert D. Potter 
  Richmond, CA 
Elmer B. Pratt 
  Denver, CO 
Jonas E. Richmond 
  Munford, AL 
Richard Lord Riley 
  Petersham, MA 
Guilford G. Rudolph 
  Shreveport, LA 
Ernesto D. Salgado 
  Neward, NJ 
Bradley T. Scheer 
  Pacific Grove, CA 
Otto H. Schmitt 
  Chester, IL 
William W. Scott 
  Baltimore, MD 
Edwin L. Smith 
  Houston, TX 
Falconer Smith 
  Charles Town, WV 
Maurice F. Sullivan 
  Richland, WA 
Theodore N. Tahmisian
  Fresno, CA 
Isaac M. Taylor 
  Boston, MA 
Robert D. Teasdall 
  Detroit, MI 
Constantin V. Teodoru 
  Jackson Hts, NY 
Henry G. Wagner 
  Bethesda, MD 
Sheppard M. Walker 
  Louisville, KY 
Floyd J. Wiercinski 
  Woods Hole, MA 
Walter S. Wilde 
  Traverse City, MI 
Paul N. Yu 
  Rochester, NY

Membership Statistics

Total Membership 10,354
Distribution by Employment 
(7,627 respondents) 
                                   No.            %
Physiology depts.         2,373         31.1
College or university    1,560          20.5
Clinical                        1,556          20.4
Other preclinical depts.   585            7.7
Government                   329            4.3
Hospitals and clinics       311            4.1
Institutes and foundations 204           2.7
Commercial companies    187           2.5
Veterinary schools           163           2.1
Public health and 
     graduate schools         131           1.7
Medical schools                63            0.8
Other, emeritus, inactive 
  or unidentified:                63            0.8
Administration                  36            0.5
Dental Schools                 34            0.4
Private Practice                32            0.4

Distribution by Racial Background and Heritage 
(optional personal data)
Total respondents
White 1,202
Asian or Pacific Islander 313
Hispanic 72
Black 33
Other 8
American Indian 4
Multiracial 2

Distribution by Earned Degree
(7,366 respondents—includes 1,138 individuals with multiple doctorate degrees)

PhD 5,155
MD 2,847
DVM 226
ScD 141
Cand. Med 58
EDD 24
DDS 37
Other 9
Dr. Med. 4
Dr.Phil. 3

Distribution by Gender 
(optional personal data)
Male 6,514
Female 1,619

Distribution by Age
(optional personal data)

70+ 1,345
60-69 1,363
50-59 2,254
40-49 2,281
30-39 1,790
20-29 1,004
Principal Type of Work 
(7,658 respondents)
%
Research 78
Teaching 11
Clinical 6.5
Administration 4.2

Distribution by Primary Section Affiliation 
(7,330 respondents)
%
Cardiovascular 24.6
Cell & Molecular Physiology 12.3
Central Nervous System 8.1
Comparative Physiology 4.2
Endocrinology & Metabolism 9.2
Environmental & Exercise 8.1
Gastrointestinal 5.6
Neural Control & Autonomic Regu. 4.1
Renal 7.6
Respiration 10.9
Teaching of Physiology 2.8
Water & Electrolyte Homeostasis 2.4

Distribution by Group Affiliation 
(3,393 respondents)
%
Epithelial Transport Group 35.2
History of Physiology Group 20.5
Hypoxia Group 24.5
Muscle Biology (MyoBio) Group 38.2
Members in Industry Group 11.2
Physiological Genomics Group 2.5
Translational Research Group 1

Distribution by Primary Interest Area (4,772 respondents)
%
Anatomy and embryology 0.5
Biochemistry 2.0
Biophysics 0.1
Cardiovascular 35.1
Cellular and tissue 5.8
Comparative physiology 3.2
Electrolytes and water balance 3.6
Endocrines 8.8
Environment 2.6
Exercise 0.4
Gastrointestinal 2.8
Immunology 0.7
Lipids and steroids 1.1
Liver and bile 0.9
Minerals, bone and teeth 1.0
Muscle 13.7
Neural control and autonomic regu. 0.4
Neurosciences 4.8
Renal 1.0
Reproduction 1.8
Respiration 8.7
Teaching 0.1
Transport 0.1
Other 0.8



APS Membership in The Americas

US 8,259 
Canada 483 
Brazil 82 
Mexico 25 
Argentina 18 
Chile 17 
West Indies 5 
Jamaica 4 
Venezuela 4 
Colombia 2 
British West Indies 1 
Costa Rica 1 
Cuba 1 
Dominican Republic 1 
Honduras 1 
Uruguay 1 

US States with More than 100 Members
(50 states plus District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands)
California 899
New York 623
Texas 521
Pennsylvania 441
Florida 408
Massachusetts 389
Maryland 374
Illinois 361
Ohio 329
Michigan 240
North Carolina 212
Georgia 197
Wisconsin 196
Missouri 190
Connecticut 177
New Jersey 176
Virginia 171
Tennessee 156
Minnesota 149
Louisiana 148
Colorado 147
Alabama 146
Indiana 144
Iowa 142
Washington 133
Arizona 110
Kentucky 105

APS Membership Outside The Americas
(countries with five or more members)
Japan 230 
England 135 
Germany 115 
France 100 
Australia 89 
Italy 58 
Denmark 56 
Netherlands 49 
South Korea 48 
Sweden 43 
Switzerland 38 
Taiwan 36 
Belgium 33 
Spain 32 
New Zealand 31 
Israel 27 
Norway 25 
Scotland 22 
India 18 
Ireland 18 
Greece 17 
Peoples Republic of China 16 
South Africa 15 
Hong Kong 12 
Democratic People’s 
Republic of Korea 12 
Austria 11 
Turkey 10 
Finland 8 
Poland 8 
Portugal 8 
Thailand 8 
Czech Republic 7 
Peru 7 
Hungary 6 
China 5 
Lebanon 5 
Russia 5 
United Kingdom 5 
Wales 5 

Other Countries Represented: Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, Herzegovina, Iceland, Indonesia, Iran, Luxembourg,, Mozambique, New Guinea, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Rep of Macedonia, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sudan, Tanzania, The Netherlands, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Yugoslavia.

Canadian Provinces with Five or More Members

Ontario 211
Quebec 101
Alberta 76
British Columbia 41
Manitoba 22
Nova Scotia 14
Saskatchewan 8
Newfoundland 8
New Brunswick 2