Researcher/Clinician Name | Title | Department | Specialties | |
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![]() | Elisabeth Barton, PhD | Professor & Acting Associate Dean | Department of Applied Physiology & Kinesiology | Muscular dystrophy and respiratory muscle function |
![]() | Russell Bauer, PhD, ABPP | Professor | Department of Clinical & Health Psychology | Traumatic brain injury |
![]() | Jennifer Bizon, PhD | Professor & Interim Chair | Department of Neuroscience | Therapeutic intermittent hypoxia and cognitive function in rodent models |
![]() | Donald Bolser, PhD | Professor | Department of Physiological Sciences | Respiratory control, mechanisms of cough, and airway defense |
![]() | David Borchelt, PhD | Professor & Director | Department of Neuroscience | Prior transmission of ALS |
![]() | Prodip Bose, MD, PhD | Professor & Director | Department of Neurology | Spasticity after TBI/SCI |
![]() | Mark Brantly, MD | Professor | Division of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine | Pulmonary disease and critical care |
![]() | Andrew Bryant, MD | Clinical Assistant Professor | Division of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine | Pulmonary critical care and sleep medicine; hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension |
![]() | Barry Byrne, MD, PhD | Professor & Associate Chair | Department of Pediatrics | Pompe disease, gene therapy |
![]() | Vijayendran Chandran, PhD | Assistant Professor | Department of Pediatrics | Peripheral and central nervous system regeneration |
![]() | Thomas Clanton, PhD | BK and Betty Stevens Professor | Department of Applied Physiology & Kinesiology | Inflammation in respiratory muscles |
![]() | Evangelos Christou, PhD | Professor | Department of Applied Physiology & Kinesiology | Intermittent hypoxia |
![]() | David Clark, ScD | Associate Professor | Department of Aging & Geriatric Research | Rehabilitation from stroke and SCI (human movement) |
![]() | Manuela Corti, PT, PhD | Research Assistant Professor | Department of Pediatrics | Pompe, gene therapy |
![]() | Erica Dale, PhD | Assistant Professor | Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics | Spinal stimulation induced phrenic motor plasticity; neurostimulation and functional recovery of breathing capacity after spinal injury |
![]() | Paul Davenport, PhD | Distinguished Professor | Department of Physiological Sciences | Respiratory control, sensation and airway defense |
![]() | Steven DeKosky, MD | Professor & Deputy Director | Department of Neurology | Traumatic brain injury |
![]() | Leonardo Ferreira, PhD | Associate Professor | Department of Applied Physiology & Kinesiology | Diaphragm atrophy |
![]() | Emily Fox, PT, DPT, PhD, NCS | Research Associate Professor | Department of Physical Therapy | Phrenic/diaphragm pacing as rehabilitative tool; therapeutic intermittent hypoxia and spinal injury |
![]() | David Fuller, PhD | Professor | Department of Physical Therapy | Spinal stimulation and recovery of breathing activity with opiate-induced respiratory depression and spinal injury; Regulation of airway muscles; hyperbaric oxygenation, intermittent hypoxia and respiratory plasticity, Pompe disease |
![]() | Carolyn Geis, MD | Associate Professor | Department of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation | Clinical SCI |
![]() | Todd Golde, MD, PhD | Professor & Director | Department of Neuroscience | Neurodegenerative disease |
![]() | Elisa Gonzalez-Rothi, DPT, PhD | Research Assistant Professor | Department of Physical Therapy | Respiratory plasticity induced by neurostimulation and intermittent hypoxia; spinal cord injury; sleep apnea & pathogenic intermittent hypoxia after SCI |
![]() | Aysegul Gunduz, PhD | Assistant Professor | Department of Biomedical Engineering | Signal processing, deep brain stimulation |
![]() | Karen Hegland, PhD, CCC-SLP | Assistant Professor | Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences | Cough and respiratory sensation in Parkinson's Disease |
![]() | Russell Hepple, PhD | Professor | Department of Physical Therapy | Aging and toxicology of respiratory muscle |
![]() | Daniel Hoh, MD | Associate Professor | Department of Neurosurgery | Minimally invasive and complex spine surgery; spinal cord regeneration; neurologic rehabilitation; treatment of spinal degenerative, trauma, deformity, tumor, rheumatologic, and infectious disorders |
![]() | Michael Jaffee, MD, FAAN, FANA | Professor & Vice Chair | Department of Neurology | Traumatic brain injury |
![]() | Andrew Judge, PhD | Associate Professor | Department of Physical Therapy | Sepsis, cachexia and respiratory muscles |
![]() | Jack Judy, PhD | Director | Nanoscience Institute for Medical and Engineering Technology | Advanced neural-interface technology and systems, autonomic neuroengineering; neuroprosthetics |
![]() | Jorge Lascano, MD | Associate Professor | Division of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine | Pulmonary critical care |
![]() | Erica Levitt, PhD | Assistant Professor | Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics | Mechanisms of opioid-induced respiratory depression |
![]() | Jada Lewis, PhD | Professor | Department of Neuroscience | Pathogenic and therapeutic IH in neurodegenerative disease |
![]() | Carolina Maciel, MD, MSCR | Clinical Assistant Professor | Department of Neurology | Cognitive function after cardiac arrest/recovery; neurocritical care, TBI |
![]() | Ronald Mandel, PhD | Professor | Department of Neuroscience | AAV for neuroanatomical tracing of respiratory pathways and gene therapy |
![]() | Borna Mehrad, MD | Ethel Smith Research Professor and Chief | Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine | Lung disease |
![]() | Gordon Mitchell, PhD | Preeminence Professor | Department of Physical Therapy | Intermittent hypoxia induced respiratory plasticity, therapeutic intermittent hypoxia in spinal injury and ALS |
![]() | Nicholas Napoli, PhD | Assistant Professor | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering | Hyperbaric oxygenation |
![]() | Michael Okun, MD | Professor & Chair | Department of Neurology | Clinical movement disorders |
![]() | Kevin Otto, PhD | Professor & Senior Associate Chair | Department of Biomedical Engineering | Neural interfaces, multi-channel implantable micro devices for neural stimulation, autonomic neuroengineering; neuroprosthetics; spinal/epidural stimulation |
![]() | Dana Otzel, PhD, ATC, LAT | Health Science Specialist | Malcolm Randall VA Medical Center | Human and rodent studies of muscle/bone rehabilitation after SCI |
![]() | Karim Oweiss, PhD | Professor | Department of Biomedical Engineering | Neuroengineering, cortical compensation for SCI; neural interface design to restore, augment or repair lost sensorimotor function |
![]() | Emily Plowman, PhD, CCC-SLP | Associate Professor | Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences | Dysphagia and cough in ALS |
![]() | Scott Powers, PhD | UAA Endowed Professor & Distinguished Professor | Department of Applied Physiology & Kinesiology | Diaphragm atrophy |
![]() | Sreekala Prabhakaran, MD | Clinical Associate Professor | Pediatric Pulmonary Division | Sleep patterns and sleep disorders |
![]() | José Principe, PhD | Distinguished Professor | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering | Neural Networks; Digital Signal Processing, Brain Machine Interfaces |
![]() | Laura Ranum, PhD | Professor & Director | Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology | Genetics of neurodegenerative neuromuscular disease: myotonic dystrophy and ALS |
![]() | Michael Reid, PhD | Professor & Dean | Department of Applied Physiology & Kinesiology | Molecular biology of respiratory muscle |
![]() | Leah Reznikov, PhD | Assistant Professor | Department of Physiological Sciences | Neural innervation of the airways, cystic fibrosis |
![]() | Christine Schmidt, PhD | Professor | Department of Biomedical Engineering | Neuroregeneration after peripheral or spinal cord injury |
![]() | Barbara Smith, PT, PhD | Research Assistant Professor | Department of Physical Therapy | Pompe disease, diaphragm pacing; therapeutic intermittent hypoxia in ALS patients |
![]() | Ashley Smuder, PhD | Assistant Professor | Department of Applied Physiology & Kinesiology | Diaphragm atrophy; response to therapeutics; HBO and diaphragm muscle inflammation in Pompe and SCI |
![]() | Maurice Swanson, MS, PhD | Professor & Associate Director | Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology | Co/post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression and RNA-mediated disease mechanisms |
![]() | Lee Sweeney, PhD | Professor | Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics | Molecular motors of the myosin superfamily; muscular dystrophy |
![]() | Tanja Taivassalo, PhD | Associate Professor | Department of Physiology & Functional Genomics | Muscle dysfunction & therapeutics in human DMD |
![]() | Floyd Thompson, PhD | Professor Emeritus | Department of Neuroscience | Spasticity after TBI/SCI |
![]() | Shahab Vahdat, PhD | Assistant Professor | Department of Applied Physiology & Kinesiology | Imaging SCI and stroke in human and rodent models |
![]() | David Vaillancourt, PhD | Professor & Chair | Department of Applied Physiology & Kinesiology | Brain regulation of movement with focus on voluntary and involuntary motor disorders |
![]() | Krista Vandenborne, PT, PhD | Distinguished Professor & Chair | Department of Physical Therapy | Respiratory failure in human DMD |
![]() | Terrie Vasilopoulos, PhD | Assistant Professor | Department of Anesthesiology | Hypoxia/oxygen in anesthesia |
![]() | Heather Vincent, PhD, FACSM | Associate Professor | Department of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation | Rehabilitation from SCI |
![]() | Mary Wagner, MD | Clinical Professor | Department of Pediatrics | Sleep disordered breathing |
![]() | Glenn Walter, PhD | Professor | Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics | MRI imaging of respiratory muscles & their plasticity |
![]() | Charles Wood, PhD | Professor & Chair | Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics | Fetal hypoxia |
![]() | Adam Woods, PhD | Associate Professor & Assistant Director | Department of Clinical and Health Psychology | Therapeutic intermittent hypoxia and cognitive function in aging humans |
![]() | James Wymer, MD, FAAN | Professor | Department of Neurology | Diagnosis and management of neuromuscular diseases, including ALS, muscle diseases and peripheral neuropathies |
![]() | Joshua Yarrow, PhD | Health Scientist | Malcolm Randall VA Medical Center | Sex hormones and bone density after SCI |