Membership

APS Membership Statistics
New Regular Members
New Student Members
Recently Deceased Members

APS Membership Statistics

Total Membership 10,395
 
Distribution by Employment (7,759 respondents)    
Institution                 

Physiology Departments 
Administration
Clinical
College or University
Commercial Companies
Community College of 2-Year Inst.
Dental Schools
Government (Inc. VA)
High School
Hospitals and Clinics
Institutes and Foundations
Medical Schools
Not-for-Profit Association
Other Preclinical Depts.
Other, please specify
Private Practice
Public Health and Graduate Schools
Retired
Veterinary Schools

Total

1,691
27
925
2,509
249
9
35
298
4
312
218
511
17
377
50
33
97
26
125

Percent

21.8
0.3
11.9
32.3
3.2
0.1
0.5
3.8
0.1
4.0
2.8
6.7
0.2
4.9
0.6
0.4
1.3
0.3
1.6

 

Distribution by Racial Background and Heritage (optional personal data)

Alaskan Native
American Indian 
Asian or Pacific Islander
Black
Hispanic
Multiracial
Other 
White 
Total respondents
2
9
811
71
201
23
41
4,723

 

Distribution by Earned Degree
(8,310 respondents—includes 913 individuals with multiple doctorate degrees) 
PhD
MD
DVM or VMD
DSc or ScD
DrMed or DMSc
EdD
JD
5,648
2,403
139
91
13
12
4

 

Distribution by Gender
(optional personal data)    
Male 7,459
Female 2,310
7,459
2,310

 

Distribution by Age
(optional personal data)    
70+
60-69
50-59 
40-49 
30-39 
20-29
1,358
1,471
2,452
2,272
1,836
885

 

Principle Type of Work
(6,907 respondents)    

Administration
Clinical
Research
Teaching
%
3.73
5.47
79.76
11.03

 

Distribution by Primary Section Affiliation
(9,610 respondents)  
 

Cardiovascular
Cell & Molecular Physiology
Central Nervous System
Comparative Physiology
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Environmental and Exercise Physiology
Gastrointestinal & Liver Physiology
Neural Control & Autonomic Regulation
Renal
Respiration
Teaching of Physiology
Water & Electrolyte Homeostasis
%
23.5
12.7
9.5
3.9
8.7
8.9
5.4
4.9
7.4
9.2
3.3
2.5

 

Distribution by Group Affiliation (3,311 respondents)   

Epithelial Transport
History of Physiology
Hypoxia 
Members in Industry
Muscle Biology 
Physiological Genomics
Translational Research
%
33.0
18.0
24.9
10.6
35.5
12.0
9.5


 

Distribution by Primary Specialty (4,885 respondents)    

Anatomy
Biochemistry
Biomedical engineering
Biophysics 
Cardiovascular
Cellular and tissue
Comparative physiology
Electrolytes and water balance
Endocrines
Environment
Exercise 
Gastrointestinal
General physiology
Immunology 
Lipids and steroids
Liver and bile
Minerals bones and teeth
Muscle 
Neural control and autonomic reg.
Neurosciences 
Renal 
Reproduction
Respiration 
Teaching 
Transport 
Other 
%
.6
1.5
0.8
0.6
32.2
4.9
3.3
3.7
6.8
2.9
3.3
3.7
0.1
0.5
.8
.7
.7
10.7
1.2
7.3
2.2
1.5
8.4
0.6
0.5
0.6

 

APS Membership in The Americas  
United States of America 
Canada 
Brazil 
Mexico 
Chile 
Argentina
British West Indies
Peru 
Venezuela
Jamaica
Netherland Antilles
Colombia 
Trinidad 
Uruguay
8,012
478
74
33
23
21
6
3
4
2
2
1
1
1

 

US States with More than 100 Members
California 
New York
Texas 
Pennsylvania 
Massachusetts 
Ohio 
Maryland
Illinois 
North Carolina
Michigan 
Florida 
Georgia
Missouri 
Wisconsin
Virginia
Alabama
Minnesota
Indiana
Tennessee
Louisiana
New Jersey
Colorado
Connecticut
Iowa 
Washington
Kentucky 
Arizona
Oregon
834
530
523
412
381
369
362
338
257
249
242
212
206
193
163
162
162
158
158
156
152
147
138
118
117
110
108
101

 

APS Membership Outside The Americas
(countries with five or more members)
Japan
United Kingdom 
Australia 
Germany 
France 
Denmark 
Switzerland
South Korea
Taiwan
Italy
Sweden
The Netherlands
China
Belgium
Spain
Israel 
India
New Zealand 
Turkey
Norway 
Greece
Nigeria 
Thailand
Republic of Ireland
South Africa
Czech Republic
Poland
Hungary
Slovenia
Singapore
Finland
Austria
Portugal
Saudi Arabia
Iran
Lebanon
Egypt
Croatia
Russia
291
191
140
123
96
73
66
55
55
54
50
50
47
42
41
37
31
30
30
24
22
22
14
12
11
10
10
9
9
8
8
7
7
5
5
5
5
5
5

Other countries represented: Romania, Pakistan, Malaysia, Bulgaria, Estonia, United Arab Emirates, Iceland, Philippines, Indonesia, Republic of Serbia, Republic of Montenegro, Sudan, Qatar, Kuwait, Republic of Korea, Belarus, Oman, Albania, Mozambique, Macedonia, Luxembourg, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Slovakia, Tunisia.

 
Canadian Provinces with Five or More members    
Ontario
Alberta 
Quebec
British Columbia
Manitoba 
Nova Scotia
Newfoundland
Saskatchewan
223
83
66
43
22
20
13
8


New Regular Members
(*transferred from Student Membership)

James A. Bassuk
Seattle Childrens Hosp. Res. Inst., WA

Aditi Bhargava
Univ. of California, San Francisco

Justin Blau
New York Univ.

Arlin B. Blood*
Loma Linda Univ., CA

Naomi Elisabeth Brooks
Stellenbosch Univ., South Africa

Chester Malcolm Brown
Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Ellen Lyda Burnham
Univ. of Colorado, Denver

Chad Clayton Carroll*
Ball State Univ., Muncie, IN

Ching-Ping Chang
Southern Taiwan Univ., Taiwan

Jun-Tzu Sherry Chao
Univ. of Missouri, Columbia

Narattaphol Charoenphandhu
Mahidol Univ. Fac. Sciences, Thailand

Saurabh Chatterjee
NIH, NIEHS, Res. Triangle Park, NC

Marcelo Coertjens
Univ. of Fed Do Piaui/CA, Brazil

Karigowda Dammanahalli
Univ. of Oklahoma Hlth. Sci. Ctr.

Eduard Dedkov
New York Coll. Osteopath Med., NY

Kathryn Anne DeFea
Univ. of California, Riverside

Ramana Dodla
Univ. of Texas, San Antonio

Amitabh Dube
S.M.S. Medical Coll., Jaipur, India

Todd A. Duhamel*
Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB

Allison Audrey Eddy
Univ. of Washington, Seattle

Anita Marie Engh
Univ. of Chicago, IL

William Vogt Everson
Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington

Alberto Fernandez De Arriba
Palau Pharma, S.A., Spain

Hussein D. Foda
SUNY-Stony Brook, NY

Marco A.P. Fontes
Univ. of Fed. De Minas Gerais, Brazil

Lyle E. Fox
Univ. of Iowa

Nestor H. Garcia*
J. Robert Cade Fndn., Argentina

Jeffrey Stephen Gilbert*
Univ. of Mississippi, Jackson

Werner M. Graf
Howard Univ., Washington, DC

Ronald G. Gregg
Univ. of Louisville, KY

Warren Anthony Gregson
Liverpool John Moores Univ., UK

Lianzhi Gu
Univ. of Illinois, Chicago

Ravi Kumar Gutti
NIH, Bethesda, MD

Victor Z. Han
Oregon Hlth. Sci. Univ., Beaverton

Alyssa Herweyer Hasty
Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN

Aaron Curtis Hinken*
Univ. of Illinois, Chicago

Vallie Michelle Holloway
Mayo Cinic of Jacksonville, FL

Carlos E. Irarrazabal
NIH, Bethesda, MD

John G.R. Jefferys
Univ. of Birmingham, UK

Heather Marie Jones
Pennsylvania State Univ., Erie

Sonnet Sky Jonker*
Univ. of Iowa

Wissam Habib Joumaa
Lebanese Univ., Beirut, Lebanon

Serhan Karvar
Univ. of Southern CA, Los Angeles

Thomas S. Kilduff
SRI International, Menlo Park, CA

Nathaniel D. Kirkpatrick
Univ. of Arizona, Tuscon

Lee Koetzner
Palatin Technologies, Cranbury, NJ

Rajesh Kumar
Texas A&M, Temple

Richard D. Lane
Univ. of Toledo, OH
Joseph E. LeDoux
New York Univ.

Dong Youb Lee
Univ. of California, Davis

Yen-shou Lin*
Massachusetts Gen. Hosp., Boston

Eric E. Lloyd
Baylor College of Med., Houston, TX

Silviu Locovei
Univ. of Miami, Miller Sch. Med., FL

Jian Ma
Med. Univ. of South Carolina, Charleston

Mariano Marcano
Univ. of Puerto Rico, San Juan

Antonios Matsakas
Univ. of Reading, UK

Gary G. Matthews
SUNY, Stony Brook, NY

Theodore Mazzone
Univ. of Illinois, Chicago

Babak Mehrara
Mem. Sloan-Kettering Cancer Ctr., NY

Silvana S. Meyrelles*
Fed. Univ. Espirito Santo, Brazil

Hiroto Miura
Med. College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Yoshinori Moriyama
Okayama Univ., Japan

Marvin H. O’Neal
SUNY, Stony Brook, NY

Naro Ohashi
Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA

Jingsong Ou
Med. College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Scott L. Parker
Univ. of Sydney, Australia

David Pearce
Univ. of California, San Francisco

Robert D. Podolsky
College of Charleston, SC

Steven Poelzing
Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City

Jan Polak
Charles Univ., Prague, Czech Republic

Gary O. Rankin
Marshall Univ., Huntington, WV

Gustavo J. Rinaldi
Natl. Univ., Argentina

David S. Rumschitzki
City College of New York

Athar H. Siddiqui
Heart & Kidney Inst., Houston, TX

Attila Sik
Univ. of Laval, Quebec, Canada

Ian Francis Smith
Univ. of California, Irvine

Matthew Adam Smith
Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA

Luis Sobrevia
Pontificia Univ. Catolica, Chile

Eva Maria Sorenson
Washington Univ. Med. Ctr., Wash. DC

Shigeyasu Tanaka
Shizouka Univ., Japan

Eric B. Taylor
Joslin Diabetes Ctr., MA

David M. Thomson*
Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT

Mohamed Trebak
Albany Medical College, NY

Paul Van Donkelaar
Univ. of Oregon, Eugene

Glenn A. Walter
Univ. of Florida, Gainesville

Petra Wetzel
Med. Hochschule, Hannover, Germany

R. James White
Univ. of Rochester Med. Ctr., NY

Danielle Margaret Wigmore*
Fitchburg State College, MA

Martin Wikelski
Princeton Univ., NJ

Maurice Antonio Williams*
Univ. of Texas Southwestern Med. Ctr.

Emily Wilson
Texas A&M HSC, College Station

Loren Eugene Wold*
Columbus Children’s Res. Inst., OH

Gang Xi
Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Jian Yang
Univ. of South Alabama, Mobile

Jun Zhou*
Pennington Biomed. Res. Ctr., LA

Hui Zou
Univ. of Massachusetts, Worcester

New Student Members

Abraham Al Ahmad
Univ. of Zurich, Switzerland

Ramon Ayon
Univ. of Nevada

Seung-Soo Baek
Kyunghee Univ., Korea

Konstantin Bakhurin
Univ. of Michigan

Selvakumar Balakrishnan
Jawaharlal Inst., India

Md. Shenuarin Bhuiyan
Tohoku Univ., Japan

Erika Boerman
Michigan State Univ.

Feray Bolukbaji
Istanbul Univ., Turkey

Sarah Borengasser
Univ. of Missouri, Columbia

Fernando Carneiro
Medical College of Georgia

Elissa Carney
Georgetown Univ., Washington, DC

Ameet Chimote
Wright State Univ., OH

Sanjib Chowdhury
Univ. of Nebraska

Matthew Coutsos
Wayne State Univ., MI

Trevor Day
Univ. of Calgary, Canada

Erin Delaney
Univ. of Delaware

Sussan Ekejiuba
Howard Univ., Washington, DC

Benjamin Eovaldi
Chicago College of Osteopath. Med., IL

Jose Escarlos
Central Mindanao Univ., Philippines

Xiangping Fang
York Univ., Canada

Leona Marie Flores
Univ. of California, San Diego

Scott Fuller
Louisiana State Univ.

Nikki Gillum
George Washington Univ., Wash., DC

Maya Goapalakrishnan
Jawaharlal Inst., India

Albert Gonzales
Colorado State Univ.

Eunan Hendron
Univ. of Texas HSC

Andres Hernandez
Auburn Univ., AL

Shiyuan Hong
Case Western Reserve Univ., OH

Michael Hultstrom
Haukeland Univ. Hosp., Norway

Amine Issa
Mayo Clinic, MN

Elisha Injeti
Loma Linda Univ., CA

Park Jae Young
Seoul Nat’l Univ., Korea

Nathan Jenkins
Univ. of Maryland, College Park
Sachin Kandlika
Michigan State Univ.

Niren Kapoor
Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham

Maggie Keck
Univ. of Arizona

Jong-hee Kim
Texas A&M Univ.

W Knight
Florida State Univ.

Dhanashri Kohok
Univ. of Texas HSC

Jeff Kroetsch
Univ. of Waterloo, Canada

Orlando Laitano
Univ. Fed Rio Grande, Brazil

Guillermo Lehmann
Inst. Fisiologia Exper., Argentina

I. Chung Lo
National Cheng Kung Univ., Taiwan

Fiona McCulloch
Univ. of Southern California

Jennifer McLarty
Univ. of South Carolina

Michelina Messina
Florida State Univ.

Amit Mittal
Univ. of Nebraska

Miguel Molina
Louisiana Health Science Center

Launrivette Mosquera
Univ. of Puerto Rico

Gerardo Nava
Univ. of Illinois

W Nelson
Brigham Young Univ., Utah

Berke Ozucre
Istanbul Univ., Turkey

Kimberly Pechman
Medical College of Wisconsin

Prerna Rastogi
St. Louis Univ., MO

Zelieann Rivera
Univ. of Arizona

Nestor Rodriguez-Alayo
National Univ. Pedro Ruiz Gallo

Luis Rueda
Univ. Natl. De Piura

Seha Saygili
Istanbul Univ., Turkey

Carrie Sharoff
Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst

Joshua Steinhaus
Univ. of Western Australia

Mugdha Sukhthankar
Univ. of Tennessee

Yiying Wang
Univ. of Arkansas

Nichelle Whitlock
Univ. of Tennessee

Gary Yang
Univ. of British Columbia

Abdel-Aziz Zidane
Tanta Univ., Egypt

 

Recently Deceased Members

David V. Bates
Vancouver, BC, Canada

Bernard R. Landau
Cleveland, OH

Akira Omachi
Chicago, IL
Steven J. Wickler
Pomona, CA

John A. Young
Sydney, Australia
 

 

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