Senior Physiologists' News
Letter to Julio Cruz
Aron B. Fisher writes: “Thank you for the good wishes from APS.As you may know, I have been a member for about 40 years and value that membership more than any other. Although a 70th birthday seems an auspicious occasion, I have not yet made age-related concessions and continue with an active program as the Director of the Institute for Environmental Medicine and Professor of Physiology. My major activities are related to research in the field of cellular and molecular basis of lung function with emphasis on lung surfactant,oxidant stress,and endothelial cell signaling. I currently am the PI of two Program Project (P-01) grants ,an R-01 grant, and an NRSA (T-32) training grant, all from the NHLBI. I currently serve on an NIH study section, am an associate editor of Antioxidants and Redox Signaling, and on the editorial board of the AJP: Lung Cell and Molecular Physiology. So, I manage to keep busy, although perhaps I’ll downsize in the next few years and spend more time with my wonderful wife of 48 years, four children, eight grandchildren, and my hobbies of music, gardening, and art. Thank you again for the birthday greetings and for your efforts to keep senior physiologists involved in our society.”

Letter to Beverly Bishop
Newman L. Stephens writes: “Thank you for your greetings and your thoughtfulness.

“Currently, I am working as a full-time Professor in the Department of Physiology. This includes medical undergraduate and graduate basic science teaching. I have two PhD students, one MSc, and one research associate under my supervision. Funding for my research continues from Canadian Federal (Canadian Institutes for Health Research) and American sources in the amount of $300,000 per annum.

“I continue to publish, as you may see from the attached CV. We have three papers submitted and under editorial consideration as of now.

“I am organizing an international symposium on ‘Asthma: Chronic Inflammation, remodeling and Hyperreactivity.’ This will be held in Antigua (The Caribbean’s) in November this year. I held an international symposium on ‘Models of Smooth Muscle Contraction’ last year at Hecla Lodge, Manitoba. The proceedings were published in the Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology (CJPP).

“More to the kindness of friends than to any great brilliance on my part, I was given the Rhodarte Merit Award for contributions to science at the recent meeting of the American Thoracic Society. I was also given an award from the International Academy of Cardiovascu-lar Sciences, and the Frein Research Award in Australia.

“With respect to words of wisdom for younger colleagues I would say ‘do whatever turns you on,’ don’t settle for the expedient or anything whose end result is material returns. There are two qualities which I regard as the greatest for scientists. One is wisdom which is distilled from knowledge, and the other is compassion. Strangely enough these have accrued from studies in Tibetan spiritualism and a layman’s approach to quantum physics.” 		 
 

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