2020 Arizona Physiological Society Keynote Speaker

We are very pleased to announce that the Keynote Speaker for the 2020 Arizona Physiological Society Annual Meeting will be Dr. Scott K. Powers, UAA Endowed Professor in the Department of Applied Physiology & Kinesiology at the University of Florida.

Dr. Powers is a physiologist who specializes in investigating the effects of muscular exercise and inactivity on both cardiac and skeletal muscle. Specifically, Powers’ research has focused upon exercise mediated changes in cardiac and skeletal muscle antioxidant systems and the role that these changes play in providing protection against ischemia-reperfusion injury. The current focus of the Powers’ laboratory is to investigate the mechanisms responsible for respiratory muscle weakness in patients subjected to prolonged periods of mechanical ventilation. Powers’ laboratory research has been funded by extramural grants from the National Institutes of Health, Florida Biomedical Research Program, American Heart Association-Florida, and American Lung Association-Florida. In addition to conducting research, Powers is an enthusiastic teacher, having earned three University of Florida teaching awards. Moreover, he has co-authored many textbooks that are used in college exercise physiology courses.

We hope you will join us at the 2020 Arizona Physiological Society Annual Meeting to hear Dr. Powers talk. The Annual Meeting will be hosted virtually by the University of Arizona Tucson on November 5-6, 2020.