About the Author
The author received his
Ph.D. in Physiology from the University of Arizona in 1975. His
dissertation research, supervised by Dr. Paul Johnson, concerned the regulation
of microcirculatory blood flow in skeletal muscle. Following postdoctoral
studies at Arizona, he took a postdoctoral position at the University of
California at San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine where he trained in pharmacology under the supervision of Dr. Steven Mayer. At
UCSD, Dr. Klabunde studied the role of adenosine and other tissue metabolites on
skeletal muscle blood flow regulation. In 1978, he went to the Department
of Physiology, West Virginia University College of Medicine as an Assistant
Professor where he taught medical students and continued his work on mechanisms
of local blood flow regulation in skeletal muscle. He left West Virginia
in 1985 to become a Senior Cardiovascular Group Leader in the Department of Pharmacology at
Abbott Laboratories where he conducted extensive in vivo and in vitro research
on new drugs. During that time, he also taught cardiovascular physiology
and pharmacology at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford,
and at the Chicago Medical School. He left Abbott in 1993 to become a
Senior Research Scientist and later the Director of the Deborah Research
Institute in New Jersey. While living in New Jersey, he also taught medical
students at the University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey (UMDNJ, New
Brunswick) and at UMDNJ Stratford. In 1998,
Dr. Klabunde assumed his present full-time academic position as an Associate
Professor of Physiology at the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine.
In 2004 he published a textbook,
Cardiovascular Physiology Concepts,
through Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins. Since 2007, Dr. Klabunde has
served as the Director of the Clinical Presentation Continuum Curriculum for the
medical school, which involves overseeing all the Medical Knowledge and Clinical
Skills courses that are taught during the first two years.
More details on the
author's research and publications can be found on his academic web site: www.oucom.ohiou.edu/dbms-klabunde.
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