Dr. Joseph Mannozzi has a position as a Research Assistant Professor and currently is working at the School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA. He received his B.S. from Edinboro University, Edinboro, PA, USA, and his Ph.D. from the Wayne State University. He is well-versed in molecular biology, physiology, virology, immunology and microbiology, and integrative physiology. He is interested in the neural control of cardiovascular and immune response mechanisms. His primary focus is on the study of sympathetically mediated cardiovascular reflexes during exercise in various pathological states and their effect on ventricular-vascular interactions.
Dr. Louis Massoud has a position as a General Surgery Resident and currently is working at the Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA. He is also a Resident Doctor at the Indiana University Health, Indianapolis, IN, USA, from June 2022 to the present. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Biology and General from the University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA (September 2015–June 2017), and his Doctor of Medicine–MD from the Wayne State University School of Medicine (2018–2022). His skills and expertise are Neurotransmission, Spike Sorting, Electrophysiology, Immunostaining, Animal Anatomy and Physiology, and General Surgery.
Dr. Jon Stavres is currently an Assistant Professor of Kinesiology at the University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, USA. He received his BS and MS in Exercise Science from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania and his Ph.D. in Exercise Physiology from Kent State University in Ohio. His research focuses on cardiovascular control and autonomic regulation in healthy adults and individuals with chronic disease.
Donal S. O'Leary, Ph.D., is a Professor and Director of Cardiovascular Research at the Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Wayne State University. He is a graduate of Miami University (B.A.) and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (Ph.D.). He is a cardiovascular physiologist interested in the integrative control of the cardiovascular system at rest and during stress. His research has been continuously funded for over 31 years by the NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and is focused on understanding the neural and hormonal mechanisms that control arterial blood pressure, heart rate, cardiac output, regional blood flow, and autonomic nerve activity at rest during stresses such as dynamic exercise and how these mechanisms are altered in heart failure, hypertension, and other diseases. He is particularly interested in the interaction between, and mechanisms of action of major cardiovascular reflexes which control autonomic output and how these reflexes may be altered in pathophysiological states. He has also explored the role of purinergic mechanisms within the nucleus tractus solaritus in cardio-respiratory homeostasis, regional blood flow, and peripheral sympathetic nerve activity. Current studies also include understanding the mechanisms mediating autonomic dysreflexia in spinal cord injury patients.
