The lecture, titled "Blood Pressure: A Dynamic Regulator of Vascular Calcium Channel Expression," will take place March 10, 2011, at 4 p.m. in the Medical Sciences Building auditorium on USA’s main campus.
Dr. Rusch’s laboratory research explores the abnormalities of ion channel expression and composition that contribute to systemic and pulmonary hypertension and identifies channel-based therapies to treat these diseases.
She completed a B.S. degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an M.A. degree at the University of Washington. She received her Ph.D. at the Mayo Clinic-University of Minnesota. Dr. Rusch completed postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Iowa in the department of pharmacology and the University of Cincinnati department of physiology and biophysics. She served on the faculty at the Medical College of Wisconsin from 1987-2004.
Dr. Rusch has received several prestigious awards including the Max Baer Heart Award (Wisconsin Fraternal Order of Eagles) and the National Research Award (Fraternal Order of Eagles). She is a member of the American Physiological Society, the American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, and she serves on the Council on Circulation for the American Heart Association.
For more information on Dr. Rusch’s research, visit http://pharmtox.uams.edu/rusch.
For additional information on the lecture, contact Natalie Kent at (251) 461-1548.
