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New Regular Members

New Student Members

Recently Deceased Members

Autar Singh Paintal (1925-2004)


New Regular Members
*transferred from Student Membership

Sudha Agarwal 
Ohio State Univ.

Sudar Alagarsamy 
Ferring Research Inst., CA

Khalid A. Al-Regaiey 
King Saud Univ., Saudi Arabia

Markus Amann 
Univ. of Wisconsin 

Sulayma Amur Albarwani 
Sultan Qaboos Univ., Oman

Danilyn Angeles 
Loma Linda Univ., CA 

Piero Anversa
New York Medical College

Naohiko Anzai 
Kyorin Univ. Sch. of Med., Japan

Greg Atkinson 
Liverpool John Moores Univ., UK

Elisabeth R. Barton 
Univ. of PA Sch. of Dental Med. 

Brad Jon Behnke*
Texas A&M Univ. 

Helmi Ben Saad 
Faculty of Med. of Sousse, Tunisia

Robert Brenner 
Univ. of Texas Health Sci. Ctr.

Brad R.S. Broughton 
Univ. of New Mexico 

Brian D. Burrell 
Univ. of South Dakota 

Shannon Campbell 
Tyco Healthcare, CA

Antonio Canedo
Univ. of Santiago De Compostela, Spain

Luis F. Canosa 
Univ. of Alberta, Canada

Francisco C. Sanchez 
Max Planck Inst., Germany

Ming-Lung Chuang 
Buddhist Tsu Chi Gmmel Hosp., Taiwan

Neva Ciftcioglu 
NASA Johnson Space Ctr., TX 

Maurizio Corbetta 
Washington Univ. Sch. of Med., MO

Horace M. DeLisser 
Univ. of Pennsylvania 

Krishnan M. Dhandapani*
Univ. of Connecticut 

Carsten J. Duch 
Freie Univ., Berlin, Germany

Zeljko Dujic 
Univ. of Split Sch. of Med., Croatia

Marshall B. Dunning 
Med. College of Wisconsin 

Patrizia Ferrari 
Prassis Res. Inst. Sigma-Tau S.P.A., Italy

Albert F. Fuchs 
Univ. of Washington

Peter A. Goldstein 
Cornell Univ., NY

Helmut B. Gottlieb
Univ. of Texas

Lei Guo 
Harvard Med. School, MA 

Charles H. Halsted 
Univ. of California, Davis 

Cathy J. Hatcher*
Cornell Univ., NY

Hal K. Hawkins
Shriners Burns Hosp., TX

Timothy Edwin Hewett*
Cincinnati Children’s Hosp., OH

Scott L. Hooper 
Ohio Univ. 

Guocun Huang 
Univ. of TX Southwestern Med Ctr. 

Jian Huang 
Univ. of TX Southwestern Med. Ctr. 

Pingbo Huang
Hong Kong Univ. of Sci/Tech

Robert P. Jankov 
Sunnybrook & Women’s Coll., Canada

Jorgen Jensen 
Univ. of Oslo, Norway

Harinath Kasiganesan 
Med Univ. of South Carolina 

Shigeo Kawada 
Univ. of Tokyo, Japan

Pawel R. Kiela 
Steele Mem. Children’s Res. Ctr., AZ

Hitoshi Kita 
Univ. of Tennessee, Memphis 

Sulev Koks
Univ. of Tartu, Estonia

Walter A. Koltun 
Penn State Hershey Med. Ctr. 

You Komagiri 
Iwate Med. Univ. Sch. of Med., Japan

Laszlo Komuves 
Corgentech Inc., CA

Christoph Korbmacher 
Univ. Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany

Angel D. Kurtev 
Medical Univ., Sofia, Bulgaria

Dieter F. Kutz 
Univ. of Bologna, Italy

Graham D. Lamb
La Trobe Univ., Australia

Scott Edward Lankford*
Natl. Ctr. Water Aquaculture, WV

Chae Hun Leem
Univ. of Ulsan Coll. of Med., South Korea

Lisa A. Lesniewski*
Univ. of California, San Diego 

Richard Leung
Univ. of Toronto, Canada

Dimin Li 
New York Medical College 

Yonghai Li 
Kansas State Univ. 

Madeline Lindqvist 
Karolinska Inst., Sweden

Jennifer L. Lucitti*
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, PA

Shane K. Maloney 
Univ. of Western Australia

Kathleen M. Marr 
Lakeland College, WI

Susan A. Marsh*
Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham 

Rajamma Mathew 
New York Medical College
Razavi H. Moshref 
Texas A&M Univ.

Kazuyoshi Nakamura
Iwate Medical Univ., Japan

Yasutomo Nomura 
Yamagata Univ., Japan

Alexander V. Ovechkin*
Univ. of. Louisville, KY 

Alan R. Parrish 
Texas A&M Univ. 

Viktor M. Pastukh 
Univ. of South Alabama 

Bente Klarlund Pedersen 
Univ. Hosp. Rigshospitalet, Denmark

YeQing Pi 
Molecular Cardiology Inst., NJ

Suzanne Porszasz-Reisz 
Charles R. Drew Univ., CA

JianYong Qian 
Henry Ford Hospital, MI

Andres Quintanar-Stephano 
Univ. Autonoma De Aguascalientes, Mexico

Ganesan Ramesh 
Penn State College of Medicine 

Nasser Mostafa Rizk
Mansoura Fac. Med., Egypt

Patrick D. Roberts 
Oregon Health & Science Univ. 

Walter E. Rodriguez 
Univ. of Louisville, KY 

Terry B. Rogers 
Univ. of Maryland School of Med. 

Hiroyuki Sakurai 
Tokyo Women’s Medical Univ., Japan

Reza Shadmehr 
Johns Hopkins Univ., MD 

Donald Shaw 
Augustana College, IL

S. Murray Sherman
Univ. of Chicago, IL

Winnie W.C. Shum 
Chinese Univ., Hong Kong

Richard Sindelar 
Uppsala Univ., Sweden

Thomas C. Skalak 
Univ. of Virginia

Stephen J.M. Skinner 
Living Cell Technologies NZ Ltd., New Zealand

Christopher L. Smelley 
Louisiana State Univ. 

Marc A. Sommer 
Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA 

James A. Stewart
Univ. of South Carolina 

Olaf Strauss 
Univ. of Hamburg, Germany

Baogen Yu Su 
Columbus Children’s Res. Inst., OH

Suk Hyo Suh 
Ewha Women’s Univ., Republic Korea

Tadayoshi Takeuchi 
Osaka Prefecture Univ., Japan

Kechun Tang 
Univ. of California, San Diego 

Scott C. Thomson 
Univ. of California, San Diego 

Jagan Nath Thupari 
Johns Hopkins Univ., MD 

Yingaro Tian 
Virginia Commonwealth Univ. 

Lars Tomanek 
Univ. of California, Davis

Stephen John Trumble 
National Marine Mammal Lab, WA

Bruce A. Vallance 
Univ. of British Columbia Children’s Hosp., Canada

Frank Van Bel 
Univ. Medicial Center, The Netherlands

Manuel J. Villalon 
Pontificia Univ., Catolica De Chile

Sandra P. Villanueva 
Pontificia Univ. Catolica De Chile

Ulrich Hans Von Andrian 
Harvard Univ., MA 

Pierre-Yves Von der Weid 
Univ. of Calgary, Canada

Gexin Wang 
Univ. of Maryland School of Dentistry 

Xinhua Wang 
Univ. of Texas Southwestern Med. Ctr. 

Rachel J. Webb 
Univ. College of London, UK

David S. Weiss 
Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham 

Marianne Wessling-Resnick 
Harvard Univ., MA 

Bruce J. West 
Army Research Office, NC

Jeffrey A. Whitsett 
Cincinnati Children’s Hosp., OH

Donglan Xia 
Univ. of Texas Southwestern Med. Ctr.

Lusha Xiang
Univ. of Mississippi 

Jie Xu 
Univ. of Cincinnati, OH

Katsuhiko Yokoi 
Seitoku Univ., Japan

Syed I.A. Zaidi 
Howard Univ., DC

Rong Zhang 
Univ. of California, Los Angeles 

Xiao Lei Zhang 
New York Medical College

Ying Zhang 
Beijing Sport Univ., China

Weixin Zhao 
Wake Forest Univ., NC 

Yingbi Zhou 
Ohio State Univ., OH

Bing Zhu 
Univ. of South Alabama 

Noah Paul Zimmerman*
Univ. of Southern Mississippi

Sergey L. Znoyko 
Med. Univ. of South Carolina


New Student Members

Kara L. Achen 
Univ. of Colorado

Cecilia Acuin 
Cornell Univ., NY

Mansoor Ahmad 
New York Med. College

Samar Al-Maalouf 
Ohio State Univ.

Gabriela Aleman 
Inst. Natl. De Ciencias Med Y Nutricion, Mexico

Fabiano Amorim 
Univ. of New Mexico

Felix Anyomi 
Oklahoma State Univ.

Merlin Ariefdjohan 
Purdue Univ., IN

Luz Arocho 
Univ. of Puerto Rico 

Erman Aytac 
Istanbul Univ., Turkey

Amelia Bailey 
Univ. of Mississippi Med. Ctr.

Mark Bailey 
Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA 

Tejus Bale 
State Univ. of NY, Stony Brook

Animesh Barua 
Russian Slovak Univ.

Holly Bauser 
Indiana Univ. 

Silize Becker 
King’s College, London, UK

Francoise J. Benay 
Univ. of Colorado, Boulder

Dellice Berezan 
Univ. of Alberta, Canada

Lui Yan Chan 
Univ. of Hong Kong

Jian Chen 
Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham

Kaewon Cho 
Purdue Univ., IN

Jason A. Clayton 
Univ. of NC, Chapel Hill

Helena E. Costa 
Rutgers Univ., NJ

Joana Dado 
Texas A&M 

Thomas Dawson 
Univ. of Oxford, England

Shekhar Deo 
Univ. of North Texas 

Pooamjot Deol 
Univ. of California, Riverdale

Ketaki Desai 
Texas A&M Univ.

Anushika DeSilva 
King’s College, London

Goksel Dikmen 
Istanbul Univ., Turkey

Ankur Dnyanmote 
Univ. of Louisiana, Monroe

Dolores Doane 
Univ. of Illinois

Catherine Dreiza
Arizona State Univ.

Deborah Enns 
Univ. of Western Ontario

Steven K. Esser 
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison

Adebola Fabiyi 
Univ. of Oxford, England

Glen E. Foster 
Univ. of Calgary, Canada

Daniel A. Galvao 
Edith Cowan Univ., Australia

Tom Gee 
Loughborough Univ., UK 

Melissa Georgi 
SUNY, Stony Brook, NY

Patricia Gonzales
NIH/NHLBI, Bethesda, MD 

Matthew Goodwin 
Auburn Univ., AL

Frederick D. Gregory 
Univ. of California, Los Angeles

Anurag Gupta 
Univ. Women’s Hosp., Switzerland

Kathryn Hagedorn 
Univ. of Alberta, Canada

Elizabeth Heilig 
Harvard Univ., MA

Daniel Hodyc 
Univ. of Prague, Czechoslovakia 

Sharon Hom 
Univ. of Arizona

Archana Iyer 
Penn State Univ.

Azita Jacobson
New York Med. College

Mallika Jainu 
Univ. of Madras, India

Nili Jin 
Oklahoma State Univ.

Aditya Joshi 
Univ. of Texas Medical Branch

Stephanie Kaestle 
Charite-Univ., Berlin, Germany

Hermien E. Kan 
Radbud Univ., The Netherlands

Yevgeniya Kashman 
Univ. of Illinois, Chicago

Muthu Kathiresan 
Sri Ramachandra Med. Coll., India

Benjamin Kautza 
Winona State Univ., MN

Pimonrat Ketsawatsomkron 
Medical College of Georgia

Kyoung-Han Kim 
Univ. of Toronto, Canada

Nicolas D. Knuth 
Univ. of Michigan

Brian J. Krawiec 
Penn State College of Med.

Maya Kumar 
Tufts Univ., MA

Lee Kun-Ze 
Nat’l Taiwan Normal Univ.

Christopher Ladipo 
Univ. of Lagos, Nigeria

Johanne M. Lewis 
Mem. Univ., Newfoundland

Gang Li 
Univ. of Texas Med. Branch

Na Li 
Univ. of Louisville, KY

Yuk Yin Li 
Univ. of Hong Kong

Congrong Lin 
Rush Univ., Chicago, IL

Michael Mckinley 
Univ. of Mebourne, Australia

Masao Mizuno 
Ribe County Hosp., Denmark

Consuelo Morgado-Valle
Univ. of California, Los Angeles 

Barbara J. Lutjemeier 
Kansas State Univ.

Tyson J. MacCormack 
Mem. Univ., Newfoundland

Debaki Maduweqedera 
Monash Univ., Australia

Kevin Malley 
New Jersey City Univ.

Yingying Mao 
Temple Univ., PA

Andrea Marjerrison 
Ball State Univ., IN

William F. Martin 
Univ. of Connecticut

Sarah K. Melville 
Univ. of Western Ontario

Paula C. Mendonca 
Mem. Univ., Newfoundland

Maureen Meyer 
Saint Louis Univ., MO

Jeffrey Mills 
SUNY Upstate Med. Univ., NY

Christopher Mingone 
New York Med. Coll.

Shikha Mishra 
Univ. of California, San Diego 

Prabhakara R. Nagareddy 
Univ. of British Columbia, Canada

Bernhard Nausch 
Univ. of Vermont

Lydia Nausch 
Univ. of Vermont

Erik R. Nelson 
Univ. of Calgary

Sophia Nimphius 
Edith Cowan Univ., Australia

Lina Nordquist 
Uppsala Univ., Sweden

Ololade Olaoye 
Univ. of Lagos, Nigeria

Elizabeth Orr 
Univ. of Alberta

David Osmond 
Med. College of Georgia

Bolanle B. Owokunle 
Univ. of Lagos, Nigeria

Sara Paiva 
Georgetown Univ., DC

Yee Man Flora Pang 
Univ. of Calgary, Canada

Gustavo Pedrino 
Univ. Fed De Sao Paulo, Brazil

Karen Porter 
Univ. of Florida

Vijay Ramakrishnan 
Oklahoma State Univ.

Anne Riquier 
Univ. of Southern California

Edelmaine Rivera 
Ponce School of Med., Puerto Rico

Rachel Rubino 
Univ. of Missouri, Columbia

Bhaskaran Santosh 
Univ. of Pune, India 

Natalie B. Schweitzer 
Miami Univ., OH

Anagha S. Sen 
Tulane Univ., LA 

Gulnar Shahid 
Univ. of Houston, TX

Arti Sharma 
Univ. of North Texas, Fort Worth

Jianzhang Shen 
Univ. of Missouri, Columbia

Shang-an Shu 
Univ. of California, Davis

Sunhapas Soodvilai 
Mahidol Univ., India

Joy Stacey 
Ocean Science Ctr., St John’s, Canada

Mesia Steed 
Univ. of Louisville, KY

Premkumar Sundararajan 
Sri Ramachandra Med. College, India

Hye-Young Sung 
Daegu Univ., South Korea

Nasser Syed 
Iowa State Univ.

Bonnie Teague 
King’s College, London, UK

Candice M. Thomas 
Univ. of Louisville, KY

Jason Tilan 
Georgetown Univ., DC

Jonathan D. Toot 
Univ. of Akron, OH

Aaron J. Trask 
Wake Forest Univ., NC

Mario Trevino-Villegas 
Centro De Investigacion, Estud Avanzados, Mexico

Shigeharu Tsuda 
Univ. of Florida

Ehizokhai Uhumuavbi 
Ambrose Alli Univ., Nigeria

Emmanuel K. Uzum 
Ambrose Alli Univ., Nigeria

Diederik Van Bodegom 
Tulane Univ., LA

Shivakumar Vasanth 
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH

Harish Vasudevan 
Univ. of British Columbia, Canada

Amanda Versteilen 
VU Univ. Med. Ctr., Amsterdam

Christian Vidal 
SUNY Upstate Med. Univ., NY

Suzanne Vinson 
Saint Louis Univ., MO

Ashley E. Walker 
Univ. of Colorado

Xiaohong Wang 
Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham

Jittima Weerachayaphorn 
Univ. of Texas Medical Branch

TingTing Weng 
Oklahoma State Univ.

Clintoria Williams 
Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham

Sarah Williams 
Univ. of Adelaide, Australia

Jason B. Winchester 
Louisiana State Univ.

Joshua S. Wooten 
Texas Women’s Univ.

Douglas Wright 
Louisiana State Univ. 

Yalie Wu 
Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham

Paulette Yamada 
Univ. of New Mexico

Nuray Yazihan 
Ankaro Univ. Fac. of Med., Turkey

Hongying Zhang 
Loma Linda Univ., CA

Jian-Liang Zhang 
Hong Kong Baptist Univ.

Qian Zhang 
Medical College of Georgia

Dan Zheng 
Univ. of Southern California


Recently Deceased Member

Adamu Alemayehu
La Jolla, CA

Autar Singh Paintal 
(1925-2004)

Autar Singh Paintal, an icon of post-war cardio-pulmonary physiology, died on December 21, 2004 in Delhi at age 79 years. He was elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, as well as to the Royal Society. The Government of India awarded him the Padma Vibhushan. He was an honorary member of the American Physiological Society. 

Born in Mogok, Burma (now Myanmar), Paintal’s scholastic career was meritorious as a medical student and later, a postgraduate student in physiology at the King George’s Medical College, Lucknow, India. Subsequently, while completing a PhD in David Whitteridge’s laboratory in Edinburgh, UK, Paintal achieved a breakthrough by developing the single-fiber technique for recording afferent impulses from individual sensory receptors. Using this novel approach, Paintal discovered several sensory receptors including atrial B receptors, pulmonary J-receptors, ventricular pressure receptors, stomach stretch receptors, and muscle pain receptors. The single fiber technique was widely used, and so great was its impact that Corneille Heymans (Nobel Prize, 1938) and Eric Neil coined the terms pre-Paintal and post-Paintal to recognize the new era in physiological understanding. 

In 1953 Paintal returned to India where as head of the VP Chest Institute, and later of the Council of Medical Research, he tirelessly promoted physiological research, this writer being one of many who were inspired by his scientific enthusiasm. Those who knew him will remember his incisive intellect, his youthful charm and his graciousness. He championed the highest standards of scientific conduct and scientific method, accepting no compromise on the quality and elegance of experimental data. These were the hallmarks of his research. His wife and partner in science, Ashima Anand, of New Delhi, India, his daughters Anita, of Bombay, India and Priti, of Kent, UK, and his son, Gautam, of Lincoln, UK, survive him. 

Jahar Bhattacharya, 
Columbia University

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