Making Sense of Exercise Testing

About H.Thomas RobertsonRobert B. Schoene

Dr. Robert B. Schoene is a graduate of Princeton University 68 and Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons 72. He continued his training at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Internal Medicine and Pulmonary Medicine. He was on the faculty there from 19812003; his clinical and research endeavors were primarily critical care and exercise physiology which led to his overseeing two of the exercise laboratories there. He also became involved in high-altitude research which took him to Mt. Everest in 1981 to explore the limits of human performance Denali in the mid-1980s to investigate high-altitude pulmonary edema and the Andes over a couple of decades to investigate people living at high altitude. In 2003 he went to the UCSD School of Medicine to direct the Internal Medicine Training program and continue his work in pulmonary and exercise physiology. He presently is in the San Francisco Bay area practicing intensive care medicine as well as clinical exercise testing. Dr. H. Thomas Robertson is a graduate of Colgate University 64 and Harvard Medical School 68. He completed his four-year medical residency at the University of Washington interspersed by a twoyear tour as a partially trained anesthesiologist with the United States Army. After a two-year pulmonary fellowship at the University of Washington he joined the Pulmonary Division as a faculty member. Throughout his academic career he divided his time roughly equally between teaching care of hospitalized patients and physiology research in pulmonary gas exchange. He is now an Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington. In retirement he continues to exercise patients and conduct the weekly exercise conference at the University Hospital.