Thermoregulation Part I: From Basic Neuroscience to Clinical Neurology: Volume 156

About

Andrej A. Romanovsky MD PhD is an integrative physiologist and neuroscientist studying body temperature regulation. Originally from St. Petersburg Russia Dr. Romanovsky was granted his MD with Distinction by the Ivan Pavlov Medical University (St. Petersburg) in 1984. He completed his pathophysiology residency in 1986 at the Pavlov Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences in St. Petersburg. In 1989 he received a PhD in physiology from the Institute of Physiology of the National Academy of Sciences (Minsk Belarus). Following postdoctoral training at the University of Tennessee Medical School in Memphis (19911994) Dr. Romanovsky accepted the position of Associate Scientist and Director of the Thermoregulation Laboratory at the Legacy Health System in Portland Oregon (19942000). Since 1999 he has been working as Professor at St. Josephs Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix Arizona where he directs his basic research laboratory (FeverLab). He also holds an Adjunct Professor appointment at the Arizona State University School of Life Sciences in Tempe Arizona. Dr. Romanovsky has published more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals. His research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health the State of Arizona and a number of pharmaceutical companies and foundations. He has served on study sections and reviewed grant applications for the National Institutes of Health the National Science Foundation the Medical Research Council (UK) the Canadian Institutes of Health Research the Swedish Research Council the Dutch Research Council the National Research Foundation (South Africa) the National Council of Romania the Polish National Science Center the government of Hong Kong and other agencies in many countries. He has served on boards of multiple journals including the American Journal of Physiology (Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology) Public Library of Science One (Academic Editor) and Acta Physiologica Hungarica (International Board) and is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Temperature. He is a co-founder of Catalina Pharma Inc.