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Hannah V. Carey |
On January 1, 2005 Hannah V. Carey
succeeded Andrea Gwosdow as Chair of the Communications Committee. Prior to
becoming Chair, Carey was a Communications Committee member and served
previously as Chair of the Task Force on Communications that led to the
establishment of the Committee in 2002. She has participated in APS
activities since joining the Society as a postdoctoral fellow in 1984. Carey
was a member and Chair of several APS committees including the Women in
Physiology Committee; Membership Committee; Gastrointestinal and Liver
Section Steering Committee; the Committee on Committees; and the FASEB
Excellence in Science Committee. She served a three-year term on APS Council
from 1999–2002, and was a member of the US Scientific Programming
Committee for the 2005 IUPS Congress.
Carey has served on the editorial boards of AJP: Regulatory, Integrative
and Comparative Physiology, Physiological Biochemistry and
Physiology, and is currently a member of the editorial board of AJP:
Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology. She is an Editor of the Journal
of Comparative Physiology B, and a member of the Faculty of 1000 for
Gastrointestinal Physiology. Carey has also been active in the American
Gastroenterological Association including a recent four-year term on the AGA
Council, representing the Nutrition and Obesity Section.
Carey is a Professor in the Department of Comparative Biosciences in the
School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She
received her BS from the State University of New York at Binghamton and
completed her PhD at the University of California, Davis in 1983. Carey did
postdoctoral training with Helen Cooke, first in the Physiology Department
at the University of Nevada, Reno and subsequently at Ohio State University.
Carey credits Cooke with providing the excellent mentorship that influenced
her professional life as a physiologist, including being an active member of
the APS. After a stint as Research Assistant Professor at Ohio State she
joined the University of Wisconsin in 1989 as Assistant Professor, and moved
through the rank of Associate Professor (1995) to achieve her current
position as Professor (2001). She is also an affiliate member of the
University of Wisconsin Departments of Nutritional Sciences and
Pediatrics.
Carey conducts research in gastrointestinal physiology and hibernation
biology. Identification of mechanisms by which the gut responds to normal
physiological change, as well as pathophysiological states, is a major focus
for both research areas. One line of research has used piglets as a model
for understanding processes of intestinal absorption and secretion in
mammalian neonates, including the effects of feeding and fasting on
intestinal structure and function, and the role of insulin-like growth
factor in intestinal adaptation. Carey is particularly passionate about her
work in hibernation biology, which she has pursued since graduate school.
Her laboratory has made important contributions to the understanding of
gastrointestinal and nutritional physiology of hibernating mammals. Along
with her students and collaborators, Carey examines how the intestine
responds to the nutritional, metabolic and circulatory changes associated
with hibernation, including effects on mucosal structure and function, gene
expression, enterocyte proliferation and apoptosis, and the mucosal immune
system. Results of these studies are revealing mechanisms that hibernators
use to protect the gut from the physiological extremes associated with
torpor-arousal cycles. In recent years Carey has helped pioneer the use of
hibernators as models for endogenous protection against stress and trauma
states. Her laboratory is currently working towards translating insights
from the hibernation phenotype to novel approaches to improve survival after
trauma states including organ preservation, intestinal ischemia-reperfusion
and hemorrhagic shock. Carey has received research funding from several
sources including the NIH, NSF, USDA, the US Army Research Office and the
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Carey has had a long-standing interest in promoting biomedical science and
physiology at the local, state and national levels. She has served on the
Board of Directors of the Wisconsin Association for Biomedical Research and
Education (WABRE) since 1995, and began a term as President of WABRE in
January 2005. She has engaged in science-related outreach presentations to
grade school and senior citizens groups as well as local community
organizations and the media. Thus, her new position as Chair of the
Communications Committee is a natural extension of these interests. During
her tenure as Chair, Carey’s goals for the Committee are to strengthen
existing programs and develop new initiatives to fulfill the Committee’s
mission of enhancing the visibility of the physiological sciences and the
APS to the public. She will help guide Committee activities that support the
in-house Communications Office, which is actively working to focus attention
on Society programs, the research accomplishments of APS members and the
science produced through APS journals and meetings.
Carey notes that increasing the public’s awareness of the discipline of
physiology is an activity in which all APS members can participate, and that
even small contributions to this effort can together make a difference to
the overall mission. She invites members to work with the Committee and the
Communications Office to promote their own work and the discipline of
physiology to the public.
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