From Advanced Cardiovascular Exercise Physiology
Denise L. Smith, PhD, is a professor in the department of health
and exercise sciences and the class of 1961 term professor at Skidmore
College. She also holds an appointment as a research scientist at the
University of Illinois Fire Service Institute. She received her PhD from
the University of Illinois in exercise physiology in 1990. For nearly
two decades, Smith has conducted scientific research on cardiovascular
responses to exercise. Her research is focused on the physiological
strain associated with heat stress, with a specific emphasis on
cardiovascular and thrombotic responses to firefighting. She has led
several federally funded research projects dealing with the
cardiovascular strain of firefighting.
Smith has published studies on heat stress, cardiovascular function, and
the physiological aspects of firefighting in numerous peer-reviewed
scientific journals, including the American Journal of Cardiology,
Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, Ergonomics, Journal
of Thermal Biology, and Aviation, Space and Environmental Medicine.
Smith has collaborated extensively with fire service organizations, has
served in leadership roles in the American College of Sports Medicine,
and is a member of the American Physiological Society.
Bo Fernhall, PhD, is a professor in the department of kinesiology
and community health at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He received his PhD in exercise physiology from Arizona State University
in 1984. Fernhall has nearly 30 years of experience in cardiovascular
research, with a current focus on how exercise and diet affect heart,
arterial, and autonomic function. He also directed cardiovascular
rehabilitation programs for over 20 years, combining research and
clinical experience.
Fernhall is a fellow of the American Heart Association, the American
Association of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation, and the American College
of Sports Medicine. He was elected to the American Academy of
Kinesiology and Physical Education in 2005. He has won several national
research awards, most recently the G. Lawrence Rarick National Research
Award in 2006 for his research on the benefits of exercise in people
with disabilities. Fernhall has published over 160 peer-reviewed
manuscripts in scientific journals, including the American Journal of
Cardiology, American Journal of Hypertension, American
Journal of Physiology, Atherosclerosis, European Heart
Journal, and Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise.
From Advanced Exercise Endocrinology
Katarina T. Borer, PhD, is a professor in the School of
Kinesiology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she has
spent over 35 years teaching and researching the hormonal control of
metabolism, particularly in response to exercise. She has spent 40 years
researching endocrine mechanisms operating in acceleration of growth by
exercise and regulation of energy balance. Borer also developed and
validated radioimmunoassay for hamster growth hormone and prolactin.
She is a member of the American College of Sports Medicine, Endocrine
Society, American Diabetes Association, American Physiological Society,
and Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior. In 1991, Borer received
a Fulbright scholarship to the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, where
she studied the expression of IGF-I mRNA in exercising hamsters. She has
been a visiting professor on the kinesiology faculty at the University
of Zagreb in Croatia since 2002. Borer was also awarded the title of
Meritorious Professor in 2010 from the University of Zagreb.
Borer and her husband, Paul Wenger, reside in Ann Arbor. Borer enjoys
spending time with her grandchildren, painting, studying art, listening
to opera and classical music, and devoting time to her environmental
interests, especially the recycling of resources.
From Biochemistry Primer for Exercise Science, Fourth Edition
Peter M. Tiidus, PhD, is a professor and former chair of the
department of kinesiology and physical education at Wilfrid Laurier
University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. For more than 30 years, he has
focused his research on the physiological mechanisms of and practical
interventions in muscle damage and repair, employing both animal models
and human subjects.
Tiidus has authored more than 80 publications and presented his research
in multiple lectures and conference presentations on estrogen and muscle
damage, inflammation, and repair and the influence of treatment
interventions on muscle recovery from damage and physiological
responses. He currently serves as an editorial board member for Medicine
& Science in Sports & Exercise. He is also a former member
of the board of directors of the Canadian Society for Exercise
Physiology.
A. Russell Tupling, PhD, is an associate professor in the
department of kinesiology at the University of Waterloo in Ontario,
Canada. His research program, which is funded by the Natural Sciences
and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Canadian Institutes
of Health Research, is dedicated to the understanding of the regulation
of sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) function in muscle and understanding how
defects in the function of SR proteins that occur with oxidative stress
contribute to fatigue, weakness, and disease. In 2009, he received an
Early Research Award from the Government of Ontario to conduct research
examining a potential link between Ca2+ pump energetics in muscle and
metabolic disorders.
Tupling has 49 peer-reviewed publications in scholarly journals and over
70 conference abstracts based on his research. In 2010, he won the Award
of Excellence in Graduate Supervision, which was established by the
University of Waterloo in recognition of exemplary faculty members who
have demonstrated excellence in graduate student supervision. Tupling is
a member of the American Physiological Society and the Canadian Society
for Exercise Physiology (CSEP). He was invited to give the inaugural
Mike Houston Tutorial Lecture in Skeletal Muscle at the CSEP conference
in 2009.
Michael E. Houston, PhD, received his undergraduate training in
biochemistry from the University of Toronto and his PhD in biochemistry
from the University of Waterloo. A superb athlete and lifelong exercise
fanatic, he was able to integrate his training in biochemistry with his
love of exercise sciences and to forge a career as a teacher and
scientist in the field of kinesiology. For almost 40 years during his
career, he authored more than 100 refereed publications and taught
courses on the biochemistry of exercise to many undergraduate and
graduate students. In 2003, he was presented with the Honour Award from
the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology in acknowledgment of his
lifetime contribution to research and education in exercise science.
From Skeletal Muscle, Second Edition
Brian R. MacIntosh, PhD, is associate dean of the graduate
program and professor for the faculty of kinesiology at the University
of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. MacIntosh is on the cutting edge of
research in skeletal muscle and has published more than 50 papers and
numerous book chapters in muscle and exercise physiology. He has been
teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in these areas for 25 years
and is a member of the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology, the
Canadian Physiological Society, the American Physiological Society, the
American College of Sports Medicine, the Biophysical Society, and the
Human Powered Vehicles Association. He is also an associate editor for
the Canadian Journal of Applied Physiology and a former board
member for the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology.
Phillip Gardiner, PhD, is director of the Health, Leisure & Human
Performance Research Institute at the University of Manitoba in
Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is also an adjunct professor of physiology, a
member of the Spinal Cord Research Center in the faculty of medicine at
the University of Manitoba, and a Canada Research Chair, a position
given to internationally renowned researchers. Gardiner is past
president of the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology and previous
coeditor in chief of the Canadian Journal of Applied Physiology.
He has published extensively in the area of neuromuscular adaptations
and authored the book Neuromuscular Aspects of Physical Activity.
Alan J. McComas, MB, is emeritus professor of medicine (in
neurology) at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. McComas has more
than 40 years of research experience in nerve and muscle. Among his
accomplishments in research are devising a method for estimating the
number of human motor units in human muscle, showing the importance of
the electrogenic sodium pump in delaying fatigue, and carrying out early
microelectrode studies of human muscle fibers. He has held named
lectureships and is a member of the Society for Neuroscience.