Research Interests
Mechanisms of opioid-induced respiratory depression
Decompression procedures for altitude diving
Prevention and treatment of swimming-induced pulmonary edema (immersion pulmonary edema)
Testing of novel breathing gases for decompression in divers
Enhanced training of the respiratory muscles
Decompression procedures for altitude diving
Prevention and treatment of swimming-induced pulmonary edema (immersion pulmonary edema)
Testing of novel breathing gases for decompression in divers
Enhanced training of the respiratory muscles
Selected Grants
Applied Physiology of CNS Oxygen Toxicity: Mechanisms in Humans
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2023 - 2026Integrated Training in Anesthesiology Research
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1996 - 2026Chamber Pilot Study Plan for NASA Prebreathe Protocol
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 2024 - 2025Co.De. 1 - Compression and Decompression Stress in Diving
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Padua · 2024 - 2025HOBIT Trial
Clinical TrialInvestigator · Awarded by Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation · 2017 - 2025Underwater ultrasonic imaging of microbubbles for real-time control of decompression procedures using wearable CMUT arrays
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by ClearSens,Inc. · 2024 - 2025Duke CTSA (TL1) Year 5
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2024Automated detection of venous gas emboli on ultrasound recordings
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2024 - 2024Integrated Diaphragmatic Function, Chemosensitivity, Erythrocyte Gas Transport and Endurance in Exercising Divers
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2021 - 2024fNIRS performance monitor in Navy divers at depth
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Triton Systems, Inc. · 2021 - 2024Metabolic and Inert Gas Monitoring for Human Diving Research
EquipmentPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2023 - 2023Perfluoromethane to Reduce Decompression Sickness
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Naval Sea Systems Command · 2021 - 2023Machine Learning Approach to Identifying Hypercapnia Through Breath Sounds in Mask Worn Breathing Systems
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition · 2022 - 2023Automated detection of venous gas emboli on ultrasound recordings
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2020 - 2023Underwater ultrasonic imaging of microbubbles for real-time control of decompression procedures using wearable CMUT arrays
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by ClearSens,Inc. · 2022 - 2022Breath-Hold Diving: Mechanisms of Hypoxemia and Decompression Stress
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Padova · 2020 - 2022Treating Hypoxia via Tumorally Directed Oxygen for Improving Radiation Therapy
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2018 - 2022Underwater ultrasonic imaging of microbubbles for real-time control of decompression procedures using wearable CMUT arrays
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by ClearSens,Inc. · 2021 - 2021Altitude Study
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Naval Sea Systems Command · 2018 - 2021Altitude Study
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Naval Sea Systems Command · 2017 - 2021Sildenafil for Prevention of Immersion Pulmonary Edema
Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Naval Sea Systems Command · 2019 - 2021Ketogenic Diet for Reduction of CNS Oxygen Toxicity Symptoms in Working Divers - Clin 0201 (Salary)
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Naval Sea Systems Command · 2017 - 2021ULTRASOUND AND IMPROVED DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM FOR A HYPERBARIC CHAMBER
EquipmentPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2020 - 2021fNIRS for Hyperbaric Studies
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Triton Systems, Inc. · 2020 - 2020Advanced Technologies for Reducing Decompression Obligation and Risk
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Creare, Inc. · 2018 - 2020Does Heart Rate Variability Predict Impairment of Operational Performance in Divers?
Clinical TrialCo Investigator · Awarded by Naval Sea Systems Command · 2019 - 2020STEM Outreach Program: Design of a Passive Water Sampler to Test Dive Sites Suspected to be Contaminated
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2019 - 2020PulseOx Study
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Naval Sea Systems Command · 2018 - 2020PulseOx Study
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Naval Sea Systems Command · 2017 - 2020Human Exercise Capacity Training and Assessment System
EquipmentPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Defense · 2018 - 2019Human Lung Regional Ventilation Defect Severity Measured by Fluorine-19 Gas MRI
ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2012 - 2018Early Detection of Hypoxia During Rebreather Diving Using Pulse Oximetry
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2015 - 2017Project 2: Regulation of Mitochondrial Quality Control by Heme Oxygenase-1 System in Sepsis
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Brigham and Women's Hospital · 2011 - 2017Effect of Riociguat on Gas Exchange, Exercise Performance, and Pulmonary Artery Pressure During Acute Altitude Exposure
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Wilderness Medical Society · 2014 - 2015Identification of Blood Biomarkers of Decompression Stress through Genome-Wide Expression Profiling
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2011 - 2013Investigation of Creatine Phosphokinase and Neurological Analytes as Biochemical Markers of Decompression Stress
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2008 - 2010Molecular Basis of Postoperative Delirium in the Elderly
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2003 - 2010Modeling Complex Phenomena Using Multiscale Time Series
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Army Research Office · 2006 - 2009Effects of Exercise, Gas Density, and Static Lung Loads on End Tidal-Arterial PC02 Differences Breathing N2O2 Mixtures During Immersed Prone Exercise
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2003 - 2007Acute Lung Injury Mechanisms And Therapy
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1984 - 1999Acute Lung Injury - Mechanisms And Therapy
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1984 - 1997Acute Lung Injury And Repair
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1993 - 1995External Relationships
- Blue Cross and Blue Shield
- Merck & Co. USA (not assoc'd with Merck KGaA)
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