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APS Election Results
The American
Physiological Society announces the results of the election of officers
for 2004.
Douglas C. Eaton, Emory University School of Medicine, is the new
President-Elect.
The three newly elected Councillors taking office on April
21, 2004 are Carole Liedtke, Case Western Reserve University School
of Medicine, Thomas Lohmeier, University of Mississippi Medical
Center, and Irving Zucker, University of Nebraska College of
Medicine. The Councillors will serve for three years.
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President-Elect |
Councillors
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Douglas C. Eaton |
Carole Liedtke |
Thomas Lohmeier |
Irving Zucker |
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Introducing Kevin Kregel
 On January 1, 2004, Kevin Kregel succeeded John Stallone as
Chair of the Animal Care and Experimentation (ACE) Committee. Prior to
becoming Chair, Kregel was an ACE Committee member for three years and
recently completed a three-year term as a Councillor for the Exercise and
Environmental Physiology section. He is also currently serving as chair of
an ad hoc APS committee charged with the development of a set of
guidelines for research involving animals and exercise. He has served as a
member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Applied Physiology since
1996 and is currently an Associate Editor of Exercise and Sport Sciences
Reviews.
Kregel is a Professor in the Department of Exercise Science at the
University of Iowa (UI) in Iowa City, IA, and holds a secondary
appointment in the Free Radical and Radiation Biology Program in the
Department of Radiation Oncology at the UI. He received his doctoral
degree in Physiology & Biophysics from the UI in the laboratory of Carl
Gisolfi. He then completed a NIH-sponsored postdoctoral research
fellowship at the University of Arizona under the direction of Douglas
Seals, working closely at that time with the laboratory of Charles Tipton.
From 1990 to 1993, Kregel served as a faculty member at the University of
Arizona, as well as a visiting scientist at Humboldt University in
Heidelberg, Germany in 1992. In 1993, he joined the faculty at the UI and
was appointed full professor in 2001.
Kregel’s research focuses on the pathophysiological responses to stress,
with a primary emphasis on alterations that accompany aging. The guiding
hypothesis of his research program is that aged organisms have a reduced
ability to cope with environmental stimuli (e.g., hyperthermia, hypoxia)
due to an exaggerated production of reactive oxygen species, a blunted
stress protein response, and concomitant oxidative damage. Kregel’s
laboratory uses an integrated physiological approach that includes
whole-animal, cellular, molecular, and in vivo gene transfer techniques to
pursue basic mechanisms involved in the stress response. Specific studies
are addressing mechanistic questions involving the formation of reactive
metabolites of oxygen and associated oxidative damage, transcriptional
activation of different genes involved in the stress response (e.g.,
cytokines, stress proteins, antioxidant enzymes), and the impact of
biological aging on these responses. Kregel’s research has been funded his
entire career by NIH, AHA and other sources.
The ACE Committee is charged with overseeing all issues related to the
procurement, use and care of animals for research and teaching. The
Committee advises the APS Council on actions to take or programs needed in
these areas. Other ACE Committee duties include keeping the “Guiding
Principles of the Care and Use of Animals” up-to-date, as well as staying
apprised of legislation and the activities of various public and private
groups concerning animal care and experimentation. The ACE Committee also
acts as an arbiter for the Publications Committee when questions arise
involving experimental procedures and care of animals in submitted
manuscripts. As chair of the ACE Committee, Kregel will also be an ex
officio member of the Public Affairs Committee of the APS.
There are several projects the ACE Committee will focus on over the next
few years. The Committee is currently charged with the oversight of new
developments involving animal models in medical and veterinary education
and alternatives for animal usage. This project is being conducted in
conjunction with the APS Education Committee. There will also be efforts
to strengthen APS collaborations with state societies for biomedical
research to enhance the Society’s effectiveness in congressional advocacy
and public outreach. The ACE Committee will continue to monitor issues
involving to the management of pain and distress in animal research and
related government efforts in this area. A related topic of importance to
the APS membership that will be closely followed by the ACE Committee is
the current international efforts to “harmonize” laboratory animal welfare
requirements, which involves the potential development of science-based
guidelines for laboratory animal care and experimentation. These are
issues have broad implications for the conduct of science internationally
and will certainly have an impact on APS members.
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