Biographical Sketch: Frank L. Powell, Ph.D.
Dr. Frank L. Powell is a physiologist and Professor of Medicine at UC San Diego,
where he has been since 1980. He obtained his Ph.D. in comparative and respiratory
physiology at UC Davis in 1978 and did pre and post-doctoral training at the Max Planck
Institute for Experimental Medicine in Gottingen, Germany. His early research focused
on respiratory gas exchange in birds and especially the mechanisms that allow
birds to perform better than mammals at high altitude. This research program utilized
the University of California's high altitude laboratories at
White Mountain Research Station and Powell was appointed director of WMRS in 1995.
Currently, his research focuses
on physiological acclimatization and genetic adaptations to chronic hypoxia,
especially in the neural systems that control breathing in humans and other vertebrates.
Currently Powell teaches organ and systemic physiology to UCSD medical
students (Organ Physiology SOM 206)
and Biomedical Sciences
Ph.D. students (Systemic Physiology, BMS 213). He also has a strong interest
in educational outreach and interdisciplinary education. He helped to start
K-12 outreach programs at the American Physiological Society when
he chaired their Education Committee. Powell is chairing the Local Organizing Committee for the 35th Congress
of the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS)
in San Diego, CA., March 31 - April 5, 2005.
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Contact Information:
- Frank L. Powell, Ph.D.
- Professor of Medicine
- Director of White Mountain Research Station
- Division of Physiology
- Department of Medicine
- University of California San Diego
- 9500 Gilman Drive, #0623A
- La Jolla, CA 92093-0623
- 858-534-4191 (voice)
- 858-534-4812 (fax)
- Email: fpowell@ucsd.edu