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Dr. Ronald Edmond De MeersmanDr. Ronald Edmond De Meersman
Professor of Physiology
College of Medicine
Alfaisal University
Riyadh, KSA

Email: rmeersman@alfaisal.edu 
Tel : +(966-1) 215-7672 office

 

Education:    
PhD 1980 Indiana University, USA
MS. 1975 University of Utah, USA
BS. 1974 University of Utah, USA
     


Awards and Honors:

  • VIDDA foundation, PI 1994 – 2010, ($250,000/year)
  • NIH: RO1, co-investigator 1998-2001 ($894,586)
  • Dept. of VA, co-investigator 2001-2006 (3,634,411)
  • Leach Foundation, PI (15,000)
  • NIH RR, co-investigator 2002-2004 ($336,487)
  • AHA, co-investigator 2004-2005 ($74,587)
  • Teaching award, TCCU (2005)
  • NIH- Study section, clinical Sciences (1996)
  • NIH-Study section, Complementary Medicine, Ad Hoc (2001)

Appointments:

  • Assistant Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1980-1985
  • Assistant Professor, Wichita State University, 1986
  • Professor, Teachers College Columbia University and Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, 1986-2011
  • Professor Emeritus, Teachers College Columbia University (2011)
  • Professor of Physiology, Alfaisal University, 2011-2013

Research Interest:

  • The elucidation of autonomic nervous system responses during psychological and physiological stressors and the effects of non-pharmacological interventions in the restoration of sympathovagal balance.
  • Non-invasive autonomic data acquisition methodologies

Publications: (Last five years )
Refereed journal papers:

  • McKinley, L,S, Shapiro PA, Bagiella E, Myers MM, De Meersman RE, Grant I, Sloan RP. Deriving heart period variability from blood pressure waveforms. J. Appl. Physiol 95:1431-1438, 2003
  • R De Meersman Zion AS, V. Bond, M. Bartels, R. Adams, D. Williams, R. Sloan, J. Downey, Low arterial compliance in African American males. Am J Physiol (Heart Circ Physiol). 285: H457-462, 2003.
  • Wecht J, R. De Meersman, J Weir, A. Spungen and W Bauman. Cardiac Homeostasis is Independent of Calf Venous Compliance in Subjects with Paraplegia. Am J Physiol (Heart Circ Physiol). 284:H2393-2399, 2003.
  • Wecht, J., R. De Meersman, J. P. Weir, W. Bauman, and D. Grimm. Effects of autonomic disruption and inactivity on venous vascular function. Am J Physiol 278 (Heart Circ Physiol) H515-H520, 2000.
  • De Meersman, R., A.S. Zion, J.P. Weir, J.S. Lieberman, and J.A. Downey.
    Estrogen replacement, Vascular stiffness and autonomic physiology. Am J Physiol 274
    (Heart Circ Physiol 43):H1539-H1544, 1998.
  • Sloan, R., R. De Meersman, P.A. Shapiro, E. Bagiella, D. Chernikova, J.P.Kuhl, A.S. Zion, M. Paik, and M.M. Myers. Blood pressure variability responses to tilt are buffered by cardiac autonomic control. Am J Physiol 273 (Heart Circ Physiol 42): H1427-H1431,
    1997.
  • Sloan, R., R. De Meersman, P.A. Shapiro, E. Bagiella, J.P. A. S. Zion, M. Paik, And M.M. Myers. Cardiac autonomic control is inversely related to blood pressure variability responses to psychological challenge. Am J Physiol 272 (Heart Circ Physiol 41): H2227-H2232, 1997.
  • Grimm, D., R. De Meersman, P.L. Almenoff, A.M. Spungen, W.A. Bauman.
    Sympathovagal balance of the heart in subjects with spinal cord injury. Am J Physiol
    272 (Heart Circ Physiol 41): H835-H842, 1997.
  • De Meersman, R., A.S. Zion, S. Teitelbaum, J.P. Weir, J.S. Lieberman, and J.A. Downey. Deriving respiration from pulse wave: a new signal processing technique. Am J Physiol 270 (Heart Circ Physiol 39), H1671-1675, May 1996.
  • De Meersman, R., R.S. Reisman, M. Daum, and R. Zorowitz. Vagal withdrawal as a function of audience. Am J Physiol 270 (Heart Circ Physiol 39) 1381 1383, April 1996.
  • Grimm D, De Meersman R, Garofano R, Spungen A, and Bauman W.
    The effect of provocative maneuvers on heart rate variability in subjects with quadriplegia. Am J Physiol 268 (Heart Circ Physiol 37): H2239 H2245, 1995.
  • De Meersman, R., S. Reisman, M. Daum, R. Zorowitz, and T. Findley.
    Influence of respiration on metabolic, hemodynamic, psychometric, and R R interval
    spectral parameters. Am J Physiol 269 (Heart Circ Physiol 38) H1437 H1440, 1995.
  • Gallagher D., M. Visser, R. De Meersman, D. Sepulveda, R.N. Baumgartner,
    R.N. Pierson, T. Harris, S.B. Heymsfield. Appendicular skeletal muscle mass: effects of
    age, gender, and ethniticity. J Appl Physiol 83(1):229-239, 1997.

Teaching

Columbia University – Teachers College 1986-2011

  • Applied Physiology (AP1- 4095)
  • Applied Physiology Laboratory (AP1Lab-4195)
  • Doctoral Seminar (AP-5095)
  • Human Physiology (MSTC 4095)

Advisement

  • Served as sponsor for 38 doctoral students (Ph.D. and Ed.D.), list of students and their published dissertation is available upon request.

Hobby

  • Painter (Detailist) of country scenes

Languages

  • Dutch, French, German, Afrikaans and English
 

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