Paul Iaizzo, Ph.D.

Professor of Anesthesiology and Physiology
Department of Physiology
Grant Revision Award
"The Role of DeltaOpoids in Attenuating Reperfusion Injury: Post Conditioning"

Paul A. Iaizzo, a Professor in the Department of Surgery with joint appointments in Anesthesiology and Physiology, specializes in applied physiology and outcomes research. He is on the graduate faculties in Biomedical Engineering, Neuroscience and Physiology and is also the Co-director for the Center for Muscle and Muscle Disorders. More recently, he was named the Director for Education for the Lillehei Heart Institute.

In one of his many projects, his research team has developed, in collaboration with Medtronic, a four chamber working heart model which allows for "real-time" visual assessment of internal anatomy. This collaboration has lead to the creation of the educational CD, the "Visible Heart Viewer" and the Visible Heart web site (http://www.visibleheart. com/) . He also performs applied research in the areas of clinical thermoregulation, skeletal muscle force assessment, the biomechanics of the spine, and the overwintering of black bears (Nature 409:997, 2001).

He teaches in numerous courses, such as the year long "New Product Design and Business Development" (http://www.npdbd.umn.edu/), the intensive week long short courses "Advanced Cardiac Physiology and Anatomy" (http://physiology.med.umn.edu/5510.html) and "Advanced Physiology of the Neuromuscular Junction" (http://physiology.med.umn.edu/5511.htm), the lecture and lab courses on "Quantitative Physiology" , and the UNITE course "Biomedical Applications of Heat transfer in Humans".

Publications:
 93 peer reviewed journal articles.
 5 Editorial or review articles.
 10 Book chapters.
 32 Invited articles
 100+ Abstracts.

Education:
1974-78 B.S.; UM-Duluth (Biology & Chemistry)
1978-80 M.S.; UM-Duluth (Physiology and Anatomy)
1980-86 Ph.D.; UM- Minneapolis (Neurophysiology)

Personal Website:
http://www.vhlab.umn.edu/pai/

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