Ashley Smuder

Thursday, July 13, at 9 am, the NMPT and BREATHE Training Programs hosted a NeuroNines session featuring doctoral students Alessanda Norris (mentor: Daniel Kopinke) & Branden Nguyen (mentor: Ashley Smuder).

BREATHE T32 trainee, Branden Nguyen (mentor: Dr. Ashley Smuder), was chosen as this year’s recipient to the Allen, Holyoak, & Varnes Endowed Scholarship. This fund was initiated by three former professors of UF: Robert Allen, Owen J. Holyoak and Paul R. Varnes, to support…

BREATHE members are doing a deep dive into the principles of respiratory neurobiology! Check out their chapters in the latest volume of Handbook of Clinical Neurology. Chapter 15 – The Phrenic Neuromuscular System (Drs. David Fuller, Sabhya Rana, Ashley…

Thursday, August 4, at 9 am, the NMPT and BREATHE Training Programs will host the final NeuroNines session featuring Postdoc Sabhya Rana (mentor: David Fuller) and Doctoral student Ryan Montalvo (mentor: Ashley Smuder). Join us live in the Communicore Building (C1-007) or by registering via Zoom:…

Thursday, July 14, at 9 am, the NMPT and BREATHE Training Programs will host a NeuroNines session featuring Doctoral student Vivian Doerr (mentor: Ashley Smuder) and Postdoctoral fellow Eleana Manousiouthakis (mentor: Christine Schmidt). Join us live in the Communicore Building (C1-007) or by registering via Zoom: https://bit.ly/3IDETyg.

Thursday, June 16, at 9 am, the NMPT and BREATHE Training Programs will host a NeuroNines session featuring PhD student Alyssa Mickle (mentor: Erica Dale) and Doctoral fellow Branden Nguyen (mentor: Ashley Smuder). Join us live in the Communicore Building (C1-007) or via Zoom: https://bit.ly/3wpIuM9.

Thursday, August 5, at 9 am, the NMPT and BREATHE Training Programs will host a NeuroNines session featuring doctoral student Vivian Doerr (mentor: Ashley Smuder) and doctoral student Gerard Robinson (mentor: Thomas Clanton). Register via Zoom.

Congratulations to BREATHE Steering Committee member and Assistant Professor in Applied Physiology & Kinesiology, Dr. Ashley Smuder, who received the 2021 Excellence Award recognizing outstanding tenure-track assistant professors at UF. The award grants a one-time allocation of $5,000 in support of…

Dr. Ashley Smuder, BREATHE Steering Committee member and Assistant Professor of Applied Physiology & Kinesiology, was recently named one of the 40 Gators Under 40 by the UF Alumni Association. Since 2006, the University of Florida has honored Outstanding Young Alumni whose achievements positively impact The Gator Nation. Learn more…

Drs. Dave Fuller and Ashley Smuder were recently awarded an NIH R01 grant to study the impact of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) on respiratory neuromuscular recovery after spinal cord injury.  They will investigate their hypothesis that HBO, delivered in the acute phases after cervical spinal cord…