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List of Professors
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Position | |
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Jonathan Adams Allen |
1850 - 1854 | Professor of Therapeutics, Materia Medica and Physiology |
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Frederic Henry Gerrish |
1873 - 1875 | Professor of Therapeutics, Materia Medica, and Physiology |
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Henry Sewall |
1882 - 1889 | Professor of Physiology |
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William Henry Howell |
1889 - 1892 | Professor of Histology and Physiology |
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Warrens Plimpton Lombard |
1892 - 1923 | Professor of Physiology |
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Herbert Harold Waite |
1896 - 1901 | Assistant Professor of Physiological Chemistry |
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Otis Merriam Cope |
1910 - 1919 | Assistant Professor of Physiology |
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Robert Gesell |
1923 - 1954 |
Professor of Physiology Chair Department of Physiology |
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Kenneth John Franklin |
1925 - 1926 | Assistant Professor of Physiology |
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John William Bean |
1931 - 1972 | Professor of Physiology |
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Hayden Coler Nicholson |
1931 - 1946 | Associate Professor of Physiology |
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Charles Roosevelt Brassfield |
1936 - 1965 | Professor of Physiology |
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David F. Bohr |
1949 - 1985 | Professor of Physiology |
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Leonard Hubert Elwell |
1953 - 1959 | Assistant Professor of Physiology |
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Ralph W. Gerard |
1955 - 1964 |
Professor of Neurophysiology Senior Research Neurophysiologist – Mental Health Research Institute |
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Horace W. Davenport |
1956 - 1983 |
William Beaumont Distinguished Professor of Physiology Professor of Physiology |
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Richard L. Malvin |
1956 - 1992 | Professor of Physiology |
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Paul A. Rondell |
1956 - 1973 | Associate Professor of Physiology |
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Lester T. Rutledge Jr. |
1956 - 1987 | Professor of Physiology |
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Walter S. Wilde |
1956 - 1975 | Professor of Physiology |
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Robert W. Doty |
1957 - 1961 | Associate Professor of Physiology |
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Irving B. Fritz |
1957 - 1968 | Professor of Physiology |
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Arthur J. Vander |
1960 - 1990 | Professor of Physiology |
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John A Faulkner |
1960 - 2010 |
Professor of Molecular & Intergrative Physiology Professor of Biomedical Engineering |
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John A. Jacquez |
1962 - 1990 |
Professor of Physiology Professor of Biostatistics. |
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James B. Ranck Jr. |
1962 - 1975 | Professor of Physiology |
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Arthur Thomas Storey |
1962 |
Assistant Professor of Physiology Assistant Professor of Dentistry |
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James H. Sherman |
1964 - 2001 | Associate Professor of Physiology |
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Stevo Julius |
1965 - 2005 |
Professor of Internal Medicine Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology |
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Dorothy S. Luciano |
1966 - 1972 | Assistant Professor of Physiology |
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Harvey V. Sparks Jr. |
1966 - 1979 | Professor of Physiology |
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Rudolf J. von Baumgarten |
1966 |
Research Neurophysiologist in the Department of Psychiatry Professor of Physiology |
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Kenneth L. Casey |
1966 - 2005 |
Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology Professor of Neurology |
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Gordon D. Niswender |
1968 - 1971 | Assistant Professor of Physiology |
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David R. Mouw |
1971 - 1981 | Associate Professor of Physiology |
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P. Landis Keyes |
1972 - 2005 |
Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology Research Professor in Reproductive Sciences Program |
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Matthew J. Kluger |
1972 - 1993 | Professor of Physiology |
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Robert M. Bradley |
1972 - 2019 |
Professor of Dentistry Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology |
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Louis G. D'Alecy |
1973 - 2016 | Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology |
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Fred Karsch |
1975 - 2010 | Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology |
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Barbara Caleen Hansen |
1977 - 1982 |
Professor and Associate Dean of Nursing Associate Professor of Physiology |
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Robert L. Macdonald |
1978 - 2001 |
Professor of Neurology Russell N. DeJong Professor of Neurology Professor of Physiology |
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Richard L. Tannen |
1978 - 1988 | Professor of Internal Medicine and Physiology |
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Jack Lawrence Kostyo |
1979 - 1994 |
Professor of Physiology Chair Department of Physiology |
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Jessica Schwartz |
1979 - 2014 |
Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology Director, Program in Cellular & Molecular Biology |
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David C. Dawson |
1981 - 1991 | Professor of Physiology |
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Hylan C. Moises |
1981 - 2004 | Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology |
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Susan E. Shore |
1984 - 1986 2000 - 2023 |
Professor of Biomedical Engineering Professor of Otolaryngology Research, Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology |
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Jurgen B. Schnermann |
1985 - 1998 | Professor of Physiology |
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Vasantha Padmanabhan |
1985 - 2019 |
Professor of Pediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Molecular & Integrative Physiology Professor of Environmental Health Sciences |
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Craig D. Logsdon |
1987 - 2004 | Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology |
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Elizabeth G. Nabel |
1987 - 2001 | Professor of Internal Medicine and Physiology |
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John A. Williams |
1987 - 2019 |
Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology Professor of Internal Medicine |
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Dr. Frank C. Brosius III |
1989 - 2016 |
Professor of Internal Medicine & Biomedical Engineering Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology |
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Bret A. Hughes |
1989 - 2022 |
Professor of Ophthalmoogy & Visual Sciences Professor of Molecular & integrative Physiology |
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Edward L. Stuenkel |
1990 - 2020 | Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology |
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Juanita L. Merchant |
1991 - 2018 |
Professor of Gastrointestinal Sciences Professor of Molecular and integrative Physiology |
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Ralph Lydic |
1999 - 2014 |
Professor of Aesthesiology Professor of Integrative Physiology |
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Maria Dolors Sans Gili |
1999 - 2014 | Research Assistant Professor |
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Gina R. Poe |
2001 - 2016 |
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology |
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Jose Jalife |
2008 - 2019 |
Professor of Cardiovascular Research & Internal Medicine Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology |
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Nancy Linford |
2009 - 2014 | Research Assistant Professor, Molecular & Integrative Physiology |
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Malcolm Low |
2009 - 2022 | Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology |
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Joanna Martina Coolen |
2010 - 2012 |
Professor of Psychology Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physioogy Research Professor of Reproductive Sciences Program |
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Hector Valdivia |
2011 - 2018 |
Frank Norman Wilson Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine Professor of Internal Medicine Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology |