Dr. Steven Romero receives prestigious American Physiological Society award for excellence in physiological research
December 4, 2023 • faculty, P&A
Dr. Steven Romero, associate professor of Physiology and Anatomy at the HSC School of Biomedical Sciences, was recently named the 2024 Henry Pickering Bowditch Award lecturer by the American Physiological Society. The lectureship is awarded to an early-career researcher who is recognized for original and outstanding accomplishments in the field of physiology.
Romero is director of the Human Vascular Physiology laboratory, where his work investigates how the vascular system adjusts and adapts to exercise and environmental stress in health and disease. Romero is a past recipient of the APS Porter Physiology Development Fellowship, a reviewer for the APS family of journals and an editorial board member for the American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology.
He will give the Henry Pickering Bowditch Award Lecture titled “Cardiovascular Adjustments after Acute Heat Exposure: Mechanisms and Clinical Implications” at the 2024 American Physiology Summit in April.
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