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Dr. Lorentz E. Wittmers Jr. Named Chair of Medical School Department of Physiology/Pharmacology
 The University of Minnesota Medical School—Duluth Campus has named Lorentz E. Wittmers Jr,, M.D., Ph.D. Chair of the Department of Physiology/Pharmacology. An associate professor, Wittmers joined the faculty of the Duluth medical campus in 1974 and is noted for his internationally recognized work on the human response to extreme temperatures, especially hypothermia from water immersion, drowning and the “diving reflex”. His work led to research of cardiovascular responses to a combination of cold water and alcohol consumption, supported by Minnesota Sea Grant.
Dr. Wittmers today is studying, with Mustafa al'Absi, Ph.D., Director of the Duluth Medical Research Institute at the Medical School’s Duluth campus, neurobiological and psychophysiological mechanisms of stress and pain and linkages with addiction. These projects are supported by the Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Cancer Institute, and the Fogarty International Center, the National Health, Lung, and Blood Institute and the American Heart Association. He also continues to study, in collaboration with Arthur Aufderheide, M.D., human contamination and poisoning with lead in present day and ancient populations. Dr. Wittmers publication record consists of 65 peer reviewed articles, 80 abstracts and 9 books and book chapters.
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