Faculty

The Faculty and Their Research

F. Edward Dudek, Professor and Chairman; Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 1973. Neuronal communication in the brain; epilepsy.

Lara R. Gawenis, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001. Salt and water homeostasis.

S.J. Fidone, Professor; Ph.D., State University of New York, Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, 1967. Signal transduction and mechanisms of adaptation in mammalian arterial chemoreceptors.

M.T. Lucero, Professor; Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 1989. Role of neuropeptides and nucleotides in the olfactory system.

W.C. Michel, Professor; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1985. Transduction of olfactory and gustatory information.

M.C. Sanguinetti, Professor; Ph.D., University California, Davis, 1982. Molecular and cellular basis of cardiac electrical activity.

K.W. Spitzer, Professor; Ph.D., SUNY at Buffalo, 1977. Cardiac electrophysiology.

L.J. Stensaas, Professor; Ph.D., UCLA, 1965. Ultrastructure of the nervous system; regeneration in the central nervous system.

S. Taha, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco, 2001. Role of ventral forebrain circuits in appetitive and consummatory behaviors.

D.M. Wachowiak, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Florida, 1996. Understanding the basic principles of olfactory function.

Research Faculty

R.P. Tuckett, Research Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Utah, 1972. Somatosensory physiology.

Adjunct Faculty

Ivor J. Benjamin, Adjunct Professor; Christi T. Smith Professor and Division Chief of Cardiology; M.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1982, Baltimore, Maryland.

A. Lorris Betz, Adjunct Professor; Executive Dean, School of Medicine, Senior Vice President for Health Sciences; M.D., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison. Brain injury and stroke.

P.R. Burgess, Adjunct Professor; Ph.D., Rockefeller University, 1965. Motor psychophysics.

D.T. Carrell, Adjunct Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Utah, 1995. Reproductive endocrinology.

Anthony John Donato, Adjunct Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Texas A&M, 2004. Translational vascular physiology.

G. Eisenman, Adjunct Professor; M.D., Harvard University, 1953. Modeling ion interactions with channels.

B. Jones, Adjunct Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Utah, 2003. Retinal neurophysiology.

B.K. Kishore, Adjunct Professor; M.D., Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, 1980; Ph.D., Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium, 1990. Cellular and molecular aspects of renal collecting duct water transport in health and disease.

D.E. Kohan, Adjunct Professor; M.D., Ph.D., University of Miami and University of Minnesota, 1982, 1980. Regulation of sodium and water transport by the kidney.

D. Krizaj, Adjunct Associate Professor; Ph.D., New York University, 1994.

Lisa Annmarie Lesniewski, Adjunct Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 2004. Translational vascular physiology.

R.E. Marc, Adjunct Professor; Ph.D., University of Texas at Houston, 1975. Retinal neurotransmission.

J.P. McAllister, Adjunct Professor; Ph.D., Purdue University, 1976.

C. Westenfelder, Adjunct Professor; M.D., University of Kiel-Leubeck, Germany, 1968. Renal stem cell and cytokine biology and development of stem cell technology for the treatment of kidney diseases.

T. Yang, Adjunct Professor; M.D., Sun Yat-sen University of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, P.R. China, 1986; Ph.D., Graduate School of Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 1998. Renal physiology related to salt and water balance and blood pressure control.

Professor Emeritus

Brown, H. Mack

Woodbury, J. Walter

In Memoriam

Carlos Eyzaguirre