Faculty - Robert Boushel
DSc. Boston, MA
Among his many awards, most recently in 2005, Dr. Boushel won the New Investigator Award for outstanding researcher from the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology (CSEP), the University Research Award 2005 (for outstanding junior researcher at Concordia University), and the University Research Fellow in Residence 2005-2006.
Dr. Boushel is a Québec Research Scholar, funded since 2003 by ‘Fonds de la Recherche en Santé Québec’. He has taught at the N.H. Technical College (Manchester, N.H), Boston University, and is currently an associate professor at both McGill University (Montréal, Canada) and Concordia University (Montréal, Canada). From 2003 to date, he has occupied the position of Concordia University Research Chair. Dr. Boushel has current research affiliations with the Montreal Chest Institute, the University of Innsbruck, the University of Copenhagen, the University of Athens, the University of Turku, and has worked with the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine.
Selected Publications
Boushel R., E. Gnaiger, P. Schjerling, M. Skovbro, R. Kraunsøe, F. Dela. Patients with type 2 diabetes have normal mitochondrial function in skeletal muscle. Diabetologia 50(4):790-796, 2007.
Boushel R., Langberg H, Gemmer C*, Olesen J, Crameri R, Scheede C*, Sander M, Kjaer M. Combined inhibition of nitric oxide and prostaglandins reduces human skeletal muscle blood flow during exercise. Journal of Physiology (Lond) 543:691-698, 2002.
Boushel R., Langberg H, Olesen J, Nowak M, Simonsen L, Bülow J, Kjær M. Regional blood flow during exercise in humans measured by near-infrared spectroscopy and indocyanine green. Journal of Applied Physiology 89(5):1868-1878, 2000.
Research Interests
Dr. Boushel collaborates with scientists at the Copenhagen Muscle Research Centre (CMRC), Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen Medical School, on research projects related to microvascular blood flow regulation, and the relation between oxygen transport and mitochondrial respiration in healthy humans and those with disease. A major focus of his work is the human response to exercise.
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Associate Professor
Office: SP 165-19
514-848-2424 ex 3304
boushel at alcor.concordia.ca
Courses:
EXCI 422 Pathophysiology
EXCI 423 Pathophysiology II
EXCI 358 Physiology of Exercise