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 |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | Thomas Clanton, PhD | BK and Betty Stevens Professor | Department of Applied Physiology & Kinesiology | Inflammation in respiratory muscles |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | Andrew Judge, PhD | Associate Professor | Department of Physical Therapy | Sepsis, cachexia and respiratory muscles |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | Borna Mehrad, MD | Ethel Smith Research Professor and Chief | Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine | Lung disease |
![]() | Gordon Mitchell, PhD | Preeminence Professor & Director | 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 |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | Emily Plowman, PhD, CCC-SLP | Associate Professor | Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences | Dysphagia and cough in ALS |
![]() | Laura Ranum, PhD | Professor & Director | Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology | Genetics of neurodegenerative neuromuscular disease: myotonic dystrophy and ALS |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | Lee Sweeney, PhD | Professor | Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics | Molecular motors of the myosin superfamily; muscular dystrophy |
![]() | Krista Vandenborne, PT, PhD | Distinguished Professor & Chair | Department of Physical Therapy | Respiratory failure in human DMD |
![]() | Glenn Walter, PhD | Professor | Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics | MRI imaging of respiratory muscles & their plasticity |
![]() | Adam Woods, PhD | Associate Professor & Assistant Director | Department of Clinical and Health Psychology | Therapeutic intermittent hypoxia and cognitive function in aging humans |