BREATHE is devoted to developing new therapeutics to restore breathing and airway defense, walking, and health in those living with spinal cord injuries. A particular focus is to harness spinal cord plasticity through intermittent hypoxia or spinal cord electrical stimulation to restore function.
Researcher/Clinician Name | Title | Department | Cores | Specialties | |
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![]() | Prodip Bose, MD, PhD | Professor & Director | Department of Neurology | Neurological Disorders Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core | Spasticity after TBI/SCI |
![]() | Vijayendran Chandran, PhD | Assistant Professor | Department of Pediatrics | Basic Breathing Research Core, Neurological Disorders Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core | Peripheral and central nervous system regeneration |
![]() | David Clark, ScD | Associate Professor | Department of Aging & Geriatric Research | Neurological Disorders Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core | Rehabilitation from stroke and SCI (human movement) |
![]() | Erica Dale, PhD | Assistant Professor | Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics | Basic Breathing Research Core, Neurotechnology Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core | Spinal stimulation induced phrenic motor plasticity; neurostimulation and functional recovery of breathing capacity after spinal injury |
![]() | Emily Fox, PT, DPT, PhD, NCS | Research Associate Professor | Department of Physical Therapy | Basic Breathing Research Core, Neurological Disorders Core, Neurotherapeutic Oxygen Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core | Phrenic/diaphragm pacing as rehabilitative tool; therapeutic intermittent hypoxia and spinal injury |
![]() | David Fuller, PhD | Professor & Program Director | Department of Physical Therapy | Basic Breathing Research Core, Airway Defense Core, Neurological Disorders Core, Neurotherapeutic Oxygen Core, Neurotechnology Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core | 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 | Neurological Disorders Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core | Clinical SCI |
![]() | Elisa Gonzalez-Rothi, DPT, PhD | Research Assistant Professor | Department of Physical Therapy | Basic Breathing Research Core, Neurological Disorders Core, Neurotherapeutic Oxygen Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core | Respiratory plasticity induced by neurostimulation and intermittent hypoxia; spinal cord injury; sleep apnea & pathogenic intermittent hypoxia after SCI |
![]() | Daniel Hoh, MD | Associate Professor | Department of Neurosurgery | Neurological Disorders Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core | Minimally invasive and complex spine surgery; spinal cord regeneration; neurologic rehabilitation; treatment of spinal degenerative, trauma, deformity, tumor, rheumatologic, and infectious disorders |
![]() | Jack Judy, PhD | Professor & Program Director | Nanoscience Institute for Medical and Engineering Technology | Neurological Disorders Core, Neurotechnology Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core | Advanced neural-interface technology and systems, autonomic neuroengineering; neuroprosthetics |
![]() | Gordon Mitchell, PhD | Preeminence Professor & Director | Department of Physical Therapy | Basic Breathing Research Core, Neurological Disorders Core, Neurotherapeutic Oxygen Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core | Intermittent hypoxia induced respiratory plasticity, therapeutic intermittent hypoxia in spinal injury and ALS |
![]() | Kevin Otto, PhD | Professor & Senior Associate Chair | Department of Biomedical Engineering | Neurological Disorders Core, Neurotechnology Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core | 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 | Neurological Disorders Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core | Human and rodent studies of muscle/bone rehabilitation after SCI |
![]() | Karim Oweiss, PhD | Professor | Department of Biomedical Engineering | Neurological Disorders Core, Neurotechnology Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core | Neuroengineering, cortical compensation for SCI; neural interface design to restore, augment or repair lost sensorimotor function |
![]() | Christine Schmidt, PhD | Professor & Chair | Department of Biomedical Engineering | Neurological Disorders Core, Neurotechnology Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core | Neuroregeneration after peripheral or spinal cord injury |
![]() | Floyd Thompson, PhD | Professor Emeritus | Department of Neuroscience | Neurological Disorders Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core | Spasticity after TBI/SCI |
![]() | Shahab Vahdat, PhD | Assistant Professor | Department of Applied Physiology & Kinesiology | Neurological Disorders Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core | Imaging SCI and stroke in human and rodent models |
![]() | Heather Vincent, PhD, FACSM | Associate Professor | Department of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation | Neurological Disorders Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core | Rehabilitation from SCI |
![]() | Joshua Yarrow, PhD | Health Scientist | Malcolm Randall VA Medical Center | Neurological Disorders Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core | Sex hormones and bone density after SCI |