Academic focus areas and goals:

1.      Developing Functional Models of Chronic Disease: Humans have a multitude of physiological responses to acute heat and cold stress that permit the regulation of body temperature. Many of these responses can be exploited to aid in studying disease. Cold stress has the capacity to model vascular hypertension and myocardial ischemia, while heat stress has the capacity to model aspects of hemorrhage, shock, and orthostatic intolerance.
 

2.      Sweat Gland Biology: To elucidate the control and regulation of secretions on a neural, glandular, and cellular level in human health and disease and in comparative studies.
 

3.      Physiological Education: To facilitate medical student engagement and learning of physiology by helping them to help themselves learn cellular through systems material by means of clinical application and context.