BREATHE Steering Committee member, Dr. Barbara Smith, is partnering with colleagues at UF Health Jacksonville to explore whether a brief breathing exercise program can help patients undergoing a total joint replacement avoid breathing problems following surgery.
The Control of Breathing and Airway Defense (CoBAD) Seminar Series returned Friday, March 31 at 3:00pm ET. Our first speaker was Anton Sirota, PhD. Dr. Sirota’s research explores the neurophysiological mechanisms of information transfer within and between the neocortex and hippocampus during learning (acquisition) and sleep (consolidation). His…
Postdoctoral researcher Cara Donohue, Ph.D., has received a two-year $137,604 grant from the American Heart Association to test an intervention designed to strengthen breathing muscles and improve post-surgical outcomes in patients who have had heart surgery.
Gordon Mitchell received the Dean’s Citation Paper Award for the article “Circadian clock genes and respiratory neuroplasticity genes oscillate in the phrenic motor system,” published in the American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology.
Dr. Emily Fox, BREATHE Steering Committee member and Director of Neuromuscular Research at Brooks Rehabilitation, presented “Strategies to Augment Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation: Promoting Breathing and Walking Recovery” on Tuesday, April 27 at 7 pm EST. This presentation was part of the Brooks/UF-PHHP Collaboration Research Connection Series.
In Explore: Research at the University of Florida, Center members Paul Davenport and Scott Powers discuss how and where we breathe matters in the COVID era.
