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APS Members Named AHA
Distinguished Scientists
Seven APS members have been named 2008 American Heart
Association (AHA) Distinguished Scientists. Each year this distinction is
proudly bestowed upon prominent AHA members whose work has advanced the
understanding and management of cardiovascular disease and stroke. The
awards were presented during the 2008 AHA Scientific Session, November 8-12,
in New Orleans, LA.
The APS members named Distinguished Scientists are:
Peter Courtland Agre, Univ. Professor and Director, Johns Hopkins
Malaria Research Institute, Baltimore, MD;
Roberto Bolli, Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Director,
Institute of Molecular Cardiology, Univ. of Louisville, KY;
Richard J. Havel, Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Former Director of
Cardiovascular Research Institute, Univ. of California, San Francisco, CA;
Louis J. Ignarro, Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology, UCLA
School of Medicine, Beverly Hills, CA;
Ferid Murad, J.S. Dunn Professor, Regental Professor, Director, Cell
Signaling Center, Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas,
Houston;
Richard J. Traystman, Professor and Vice Chancellor for Research,
Univ. of Colorado, Denver;
E. Kenneth Weir, Professor of Medicine and Physiology, Univ. of
Minnesota, Chief, Section of Cardiology, Veterans Administration Medical
Center, Minneapolis, MN.
Marc Basson is presently a Professor and Chair at Michigan
State University, Department of Surgery, Lansing. Prior to this position,
Basson was a Professor, Chief at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI.
Sujit Basu is in the Department of Pathology, Ohio State University,
Columbus. Prior to this position, Basu was in the Department of Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
Mehmet Bulbul is in the Zablocki VA Medical Center, Medical College of
Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Prior to this position, Bulbul was a Research
Assistant in the Department of Cad Akdeniz u Saglik Bilmleri, Akdeniz Univ.,
Faculty of Medicine, Antalya, Turkey.
Alex F. Chen is Director, VA Vascular Surgery Research, Univ. of Pittsburgh
School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA. Prior to this position, Chen was an
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Michigan
State University College of Medicine, East Lansing.
Liming Chen is currently an Associate Professor at Huazhong Univ. of Science
and Technology, Beijing China. Previously, Chen was a Senior Research
Associate at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH.
Gregory Mark Dick is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Exercise
Physiology at West Virginia University, Morgantown. Prior to this position,
Dick was an Associate Professor in the Department of Cellular & Integrative
Physiology at Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis.
Thomas Hancock is presently at Eastern Washington University Department of
Biology Science, Cheney, WA. Hancock was formerly at James Madison
University, Department of Biology, Harrisonburg, VA.
Shannon Kelleher is an Assistant Professor at Pennsylvania State University,
Department of Nutritional Sciences, University Park. Kelleher was formerly
an Assistant Professor at California Univ., Davis, CA.
Ganesh K. Kumar is currently a Professor at the Univ. of Chicago, Department
of Medicine, IL. Previously, Kumar was an Associate Professor at Case
Western Reserve Univ. School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry,
Cleveland, OH.
Michael M. Lockard is in the Department of Exercise Science, Willamette
Univ., Salem, OR. Prior to this position, Lockard was in the Department of
Kinesiology, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD.
Boris Martinac is currently an ARC Professional Fellow and conjoint
Professor at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Sydney, Australia.
Prior to this position, Martinac was Professor/Foundation Chair in
Biophysics, Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Todd McWhorter is presently a Lecturer at Univ. of Adelaide School of
Veterinary Science, Australia. Prior to this position, McWhorter was a
Postdoctoral Fellow at Murdoch Univ., Department of Veterinary Biology and
Biomedical Science, Murdoch Australia.
Michael Morissette is currently an Assistant Professor at West Virginia
Univ., Department of Exercise Physiology, Morgantown. Previously,
Morissette was an Instructor in the Department of Medicine at Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA.
Lewis P. Rubin is in the Univ. of South Florida Division of Neonatology of
the Univ. Medical Service Assoc., Inc., St. Petersburg, FL. Prior to this
position, Rubin was in the Division of Neonatology, Univ. Medical Service
Assoc., Inc., Tampa, FL.
Thomas H. Schindler is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of
Intermedicine, Division of Cardiology, Univ. Hospital of Geneva,
Switzerland. Prior to this position, Schindler was a Postdoctoral Fellow in
the Department of Pharmacology, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA.
Peter M. Tiidus is the Acting Dean of Science at Wilfrid Laurier Univ.
(Waterloo, ON, Canada). Prior to this appointment, Tiidus had served as the
Chair of the Department of Kinesiology & PE at Wilfrid Laurier Univ.
Ai-Lun Yang is presently an Associate Professor at Taipei Physical Education
College, Graduate Institute of Transition and Leisure Education for
Individuals with Disabilities, Taipei, Taiwan. Prior to this position, Yang
was an Assistant Professor at National Cheng-Kung Univ., Department of
Physical Therapy, Taiwan. |
