Rong Zhang, PhD

Associate Professor
Internal Medicine, Neurology and Neurotherapeutics

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

rong.zhang@utsouthwestern.edu

Biography

1980-1984 - Research and Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Medical Physics, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xian, China

1993-1995 - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Aerospace Physiology, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xian China

1997- 2000 - Instructor, Internal Medicine - Cardiology Division, UT Southwestern

2000 - Present - Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine - Cardiology Division, UT Southwestern

Education

Graduate SchoolFirst Military Medical College - China (1993)
Graduate SchoolFirst Military Medical College - China (1987)

Research Interests

Autonomic control of cardiovascular system
Biomedical signal processing
Brain imaging and neuronal-vascular coupling
Cerebral blood flow and metabolism
Cerebrovascular function in Alzheimer′s disease and hypertension

Publications

Featured
Skin cooling maintains cerebral blood flow velocity and orthostatic tolerance during tilting in humans

Wilson TE, Cui J, Zhang R, Witkowski S, Crandall CG , J Appl Physiology , 2002; (93):85-91

Featured
Modeling of Nonlinear Physiological Systems with Fast and Slow Dynamics - Part II: Application to Cerebral Autoregulation

Mitsis GD, Zhang R, Levine BD, Marmarelis VZ , Annuals of Biomedical Engineering , 2002; (30):555-565

Featured
Autonomic neural control of dynamic cerebral autoregulation in humans

Zhang R, Zuckerman JH, Iwasaki K, Wilson T, Crandall CG, Levine BD , Circulation , 2002; (106):1814-1820

Featured
Mechanism of blood pressure and R-R variability: insights from ganglion blockade in humans

Zhang R, Zuckerman JH, Iwasaki K, Behbehani K, Crandall CG, Levine BD , J Physiology , 2002; (453.1):337-348

Featured
Human muscle sympathetic neural and haemodynamic responses to tilt following spaceflight

Levine BD, Pawelczyk JA, Ertl AC, Cox JF, Zuckerman JH, Diedrich A, Biaggioni I, Ray CA, Smith ML, Iwase S, Saito M, Sugiyama Y, Mano T, Zhang R, et. al. , J Physiology , 2002; (538):331-340

Nitric oxide synthase inhibition does not affect regulation of muscle sympathetic nerve activity during head-up tilt

Cui J, Zhang R, Wilson TE, Witkowski S, Crandall CG, Levine BD , Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol , 2003; (285):H2105-2110

Does-response relationship of the cardiovascular adaption to endurance training

Iwasaki K, Zhang R, Zuckerman JH, Morrow MJ, Levine BD , J Appl Physiol , 2003; (95):1575-1583

Aging and arterial blood pressure variability during orthostatic challenge

Shi X, Huang G, Smith SA, Zhang R, Formes KJ , Gerontology , 2003; (49):279-286

Does nitric oxide buffer arterial pressure variability in humans

Cooke WH, Zhang R, Zuckerman JH, Cui J, Wilson TE, Crandall CG, Levine BD , J Appl Physiol , 2002; (93):1466-1470

Cardiovascular and sympathetic neural responses to handgrip and cold pressor stimuli in humans before, during and after spaceflight

Fu Q, Levine BD, Pawelczyk JA, Ertl AC, Diedrich A, Cox JF, Zuckerman JH, Ray CA, ;Smith ML, Iwase S, Saito M, Sugiyama Y, Mano T, Zhang R, et. al. , J Physiology , 2002; (544.2):653-664

Honors/Awards

American Heart Association

Dynamic Cerebral Autoregulation in Hypertension (2000)

American Heart Association

Mechanisms of Dynamic Cerebral Autoregulation (1998)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

American College of Sports Medicine

American Heart Association

American Physiological Society