Exercise and Circulation in Health and Disease

Bengt Saltin, MD, PhD, is professor and director of the Copenhagen Muscle Research Centre. He has more than 30 years of cardiovascular research and teaching experience. Dr. Saltin is a member of the Scandinavian Physiological Society, the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), and the Danish Academy of Sciences. He received citation and honor awards from the ACSM and was presented with the Novo Nordisk Award in 1999. He has received Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Paris, the University of Athens, the University of Guelph, the Aristotle University, the Norwegian University of Physical Education, and the University of Tartu. Dr. Saltin obtained his medical degree from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. Dr. Saltin earned his PhD in Physiology at the Karolinska Institute in 1964. Robert Boushel, DSc, is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Sports Medicine Research at Bispebjerg Hospital in Copenhagen. Dr. Boushel has served in the Division of Cardiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, as a lecturer in cardiopulmonary science at Boston University, and as an associate professor/program coordinator in Exercise Sciences at New Hampshire Technical College. He received his Dsc in Applied Anatomy and Physiology at Boston University and an MS in Exercise Science at the University of South Florida. Neils H. Secher, MD, PhD, is head of the Department of Anesthesia and the Abdominal Center at Rigshospitalet at the University of Copenhagen. A member of the Copenhagen Muscle Research Center, Dr. Secher began his work in cardiovascular research in 1972. Dr. Secher is a member of the Scandinavian Physiological Society and the ACSM. He received a Young Investigators Award from the University of Copenhagen, where he earned his MD and PhD. He is associate editor of the European Journal of Applied Physiology. He is also a former world champion rower. Jere Mitchell, MD, is Professor of Internal Medicine and Physiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. A leading authority in the field of cardiovascular regulation, he has contributed to the basic scientific understanding of how the cardiovascular system is regulated during exercise. Dr. Mitchell has published 350 papers in the field of cardiovascular regulation and has the distinction of having 40 years of consecutive National Institute of Health funding. His numerous honors include an Established Investigator award from the American Heart Association; Citation, Honor, and Joseph B. Wolffe Distinguished Lecturer awards from the ACSM; the Carl J. Wiggers Award from the Cardiovascular Section of the American Physiological Society; and the Young Investigators' Award and the Distinguished Scientist Award from the American College of Cardiology. Dr. Mitchell received his medical degree from the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School.

Baroreceptor-mediated reflex regulation of blood pressure during exercise; the exercise pressor reflex - afferent mechanisms, medullary sites, and efferent sympathetic responses; the cardiopulmonary baroreflex; control of circulation and respiration during exercise - central neural integration; coronary blood flow and cardiac haemodynamics; pulmonary circulation; liver, spleen, and kidneys; neural control of skin circulation; cerebral blood flow and metabolism; muscle blood flow and its regulation; dynamics of microvascular control in skeletal muscle; integration of muscle blood flow and cardiac output; oxygen transport in blood and to mitochondria; cardiovascular regulation during hypoxia; hyperbaric pressure; microgravity; heat and cold; cardiovascular regulation with endurance training; ageing - can the effects be prevented? heart failure; circulatory regulation in muscle disease; peripheral arterial disease; hypertension.