UF is a center of research for this novel approach to therapeutics, including therapeutic intermittent hypoxia and hyperbaric oxygenation.
Researcher/Clinician Name | Title | Department | Cores | Specialties | |
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Prodip Bose, MD, PhD | Associate Professor & Interim Director | Department of Neurology; Brain Rehabilitation Research Center | Neurological Disorders Core, Neurotherapeutic Oxygen Core | Spasticity after TBI/SCI | |
Andrew Bryant, MD | Clinical Associate Professor | Division of Pulmonary Critical Care & Sleep Medicine | Basic Breathing Research Core, Neurotherapeutic Oxygen Core | Pulmonary critical care and sleep medicine; hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension | |
Katharina Busl, MD, MS | Professor, Division Chief of Neurocritical Care, & Associate Chair for Clinical Operations | Department of Neurology | Neurological Disorders Core, Neurotherapeutic Oxygen Core | Care innovations and quality of neurocritical care; treatment of headache in the NeuroICU, neuroprognostication and medical complications of neurocritical disease | |
Emily Fox, PT, DPT, PhD, NCS | Associate Professor; Director | Department of Physical Therapy ; Brooks-PHHP Research Collaboration &Brooks Neuromuscular Research | Basic Breathing Research Core, Neurological Disorders Core, Neurotherapeutic Oxygen Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core | Phrenic/diaphragm pacing as rehabilitative tool; therapeutic intermittent hypoxia and spinal injury | |
David Fuller, PhD | Professor; Associate Director | Department of Physical Therapy; BREATHE Center | Basic Breathing Research Core, Airway Defense Core, Neurological Disorders Core, Neurotherapeutic Oxygen Core, Neurotechnology Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core | Spinal stimulation and recovery of breathing activity with opiate-induced respiratory depression and spinal injury; Regulation of airway muscles; hyperbaric oxygenation, intermittent hypoxia and respiratory plasticity, Pompe disease | |
Elisa Gonzalez-Rothi, DPT, PhD | Research Assistant Professor | Department of Physical Therapy | Basic Breathing Research Core, Neurological Disorders Core, Neurotherapeutic Oxygen Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core | Respiratory plasticity induced by neurostimulation and intermittent hypoxia; spinal cord injury; sleep apnea & pathogenic intermittent hypoxia after SCI | |
Jada Lewis, PhD | Professor; Deputy Director | Department of Neuroscience; McKnight Brain Institute | Neurological Disorders Core, Neurotherapeutic Oxygen Core | Pathogenic and therapeutic IH in neurodegenerative disease | |
Carolina Maciel, MD, MSCR | Associate Professor; Director of Research | Department of Neurology; NCC | Neurological Disorders Core, Neurotherapeutic Oxygen Core | Cognitive function after cardiac arrest/recovery; neurocritical care, TBI | |
Gordon Mitchell, PhD | Preeminence Professor; Director; Deputy Director | Department of Physical Therapy; BREATHE Center; McKnight Brain Institute | Basic Breathing Research Core, Neurological Disorders Core, Neurotherapeutic Oxygen Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core | Intermittent hypoxia induced respiratory plasticity, therapeutic intermittent hypoxia in spinal injury and ALS | |
Nicholas Napoli, PhD | Assistant Professor | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering | Neurotherapeutic Oxygen Core, Neurotechnology Core | Hyperbaric oxygenation | |
Maria Nikodemova, MS, PhD | Research Associate Scientist | Department of Physical Therapy | Basic Breathing Research Core, Neurological Disorders Core, Neurotherapeutic Oxygen Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core | microglial plasticity in healthy CNS and during neurodegeneration; APOE4 phenotype, sleep apnea; the role of microglia and neuroinflammation in regulating respiratory motor plasticity during hypoxia and after spinal cord injury | |
Barbara Smith, PT, PhD | Research Assistant Professor | Department of Physical Therapy | Basic Breathing Research Core, Neurotherapeutic Oxygen Core | Pompe disease, diaphragm pacing; therapeutic intermittent hypoxia in ALS patients | |
Ashley Smuder, PhD | Assistant Professor | Department of Applied Physiology & Kinesiology | Basic Breathing Research Core, Neurotherapeutic Oxygen Core | Diaphragm atrophy; response to therapeutics; HBO and diaphragm muscle inflammation in Pompe and SCI | |
Alicia Vose, PhD, CCC-SLP | Assistant Professor | Department of Neurology (UF Health -Jacksonville) | Basic Breathing Research Core, Airway Defense Core, Neurotherapeutic Oxygen Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core | Acute intermittent hypoxia and respiratory strength training to enhance breathing and swallowing in people with chronic spinal cord injury; effects of diaphragm stimulation on respiratory neural drive and function | |
Adam Woods, PhD | Associate Professor; Associate Dean of Research | Department of Clinical and Health Psychology; College of Public Health & Health Professions | Neurotherapeutic Oxygen Core | Therapeutic intermittent hypoxia and cognitive function in aging humans |