Craig Crandall, PhD

Professor
Internal Medicine

Contact Information

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


Office Fax: 214-345-4618

craig.crandall@utsouthwestern.edu

Biography

BS, Physical Education, Brigham Young University, 1987.

MS, Physical Education - Exercise Physiology, University of Oregon, 1989.

PhD, Biological Sciences - Physiology, University of North Texas (currently University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth), 1993.

Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. John M. Johnson; Department of Physiology; University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (1993-1996).

Assistant Professor - Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, UT Southwestern (1996-2002).

Associate Professor - Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, UT Southwestern (2002-present).

Research Scientist - Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine, Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas (1996-present).

Education

Graduate SchoolUniversity of North Texas (1993)
Graduate SchoolUniversity of Oregon (1989)

Research Interests

Blood pressure control during combined orthostatic and heat stress
Neural control of skin blood flow and sweating
Reinnervation and revascularization of grafted skin
Thermoregulation in healthy and diseased humans

Publications

Featured
Mechanism of cocaine-induced hyperthermia in humans

Crandall, C.G., W. Vongpatanasin, R.G. Victor , Ann. Int. Med , 2002; (136):785-791

Featured
Evidence that the human cutaneous venoarteriolar response is not mediated by adrenergic mechanisms

Crandall, C.G., M. Shibasaki, T.C. Yen , J. Physiol. (London) , 2002; (538):599-605

Skin blood flow influences near infrared spectroscopy derived measurements of tissue oxygenation during heat stress

71. Davis, S.L., P.J. Fadel, J. Cui, G.D. Thomas, C.G. Crandall , J. Appl. Physiol. , 2006; (100):221-224

Effect of skin surface cooling on central venous pressure during an orthostatic challenge

Cui, J., S. Durand, B.D. Levine, C.G. Crandall , Am. J. Physiol. Heart Circ. Physiol , 2005; (289):H2429-H2433

Effects of heat stress on thermoregulatory responses in congestive heart failure patients

69. Cui, J., A. Arbab-Zadeh, A. Prasad, S. Durand, B.D. Levine, C.G. Crandall , Circulation , 2005; (112):2286-2292

Skin cooling maintains cerebral blood velocity and improves orthostatic tolerance during tilting in the heated human

Wilson, T.E., J. Cui, R. Zhang, S. Witkowski, C.G. Crandall , J. Appl. Physiol. , 2002; (93):85-91

Honors/Awards

Associate Editor - Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

(2005)

Councilor, Environment and Exercise Physiology Section, The American Physiological Society

(2003)

Editorial Board, Journal of Applied Physiology

(2003)

Fellow of the American College of Sport Medicine

(1999)

American College of Sport Medicine Young Investigator Award

(1997)