Faculty Directory
Anesthesiology
Bradshaw, David
615 Arapeen Drive, Suite 200
Phone: 585-9222
E-Mail: dhb11@utah.edu
General Research Interest: Pain measurement and management;
physiological and neurophysiological measurement; emotion;
music therapy; meditation effects on neurophysiology and pain;
and multimedia for education in medicine.
Student Participation: Laboratory setup (measurement),
subject recruitment, training and conducting experiments in
pain measurement and management, grant proposal support, and
assist with new study design and implementation.
Background Needed: Studies in psychology, physiology,
helpful to have some computer experience, experience in human
subjects studies or clinical work.
Outside Majors: Psychology, Physiology, Electrical
Engineering, Computer Science, Bioengineering, Statistics,
Music, Pre-Med
Student generated projects may be considered.
Light, Alan
3C444 SOM
Phone: 581-6393
Email: ron@neuro.utah.edu, alan.light@hsc.utah.edu
General Research Interest: Pain Mechanisms: Characterization and
Quantification of receptors and metabolites related to exercise, Fibromyalgia
Syndrome and chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Student Participation: Assist in research, then train to perform RNA
Extraction, reverse transcriptase, real-time PCR and Data Analysis with mouse,
human, and rat models.
Background Needed: Basic biology and chemistry with lab experience
Outside Majors: Biology, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Psychology
Student generated projects
may be considered.
Okifuji, Akiko
200 SOM
Phone: 585-7690
E-Mail: akiko.okifuji@hsc.utah.edu
General Research Interest: Assessment and treatment
of chronic pain; stress and coping with chronic pain; women's
health issues and pain; motivation in pain rehabilitation.
Student Participation: Data entry, filing, and reference
management.
Background Needed: Intro to psychology, Abnormal
psychology, basic statistics. Health psychology or sensation
& perception a plus.
Outside Majors: Psychology, Nursing, Pre-Med.
Student generated projects may be considered.
Vezina, Daniel Pierre
3C444 SOM
Phone: 581-6393
E-Mail: daniel.vezina@hsc.utah.edu
General Research Interest: Ultrasound; Echo-cardiography;
Echo contrast agent; Cardiac physiology.
Student Participation: Manipulation of probe; measurement
of velocities; data analysis; new ideas!
Background Needed: Physics and physiology helpful.
Will power and interest!!
Student generated projects may be considered.
Westenskow, Dwayne
3C444 UUMC
Phone: 581-2478
E-mail: drw@ee.utah.edu
General Research Interest: Bioengineering, Biomedical
Instrumentation, Patient Stimulation and Neural Networks.
Background Needed: Computer & electrical engineering.
Outside Majors: Bioengineering, Electrical Engineering,
Computer Science.
Key Words: Bioengineering, medical computing, neural
networks.
Student generated research projects may be considered.
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