QHS Principal's Development Fund for Visiting Scholars

DBMS is pleased to present the 2024 QHS Principal’s Development Fund for Visiting Scholars

Professor Emeritus Dr. Jerome (Jerry) Dempsey

Population Health Sciences; Physiology; Kinesiology

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Sixty Years of Science: Pioneering Integrative Systems-Physiologgy Research

November 6-7, 2024

Dr. Jerome A. Dempsey was born and raised in London, Ontario and educated at Western University, the University of Alberta and University of Wisconsin. Over six decades he and his colleagues at the Rankin Laboratory of Pulmonary Medicine, UW-Madison have researched and taught cardiopulmonary physiology and pathophysiology, published 420 peer-reviewed manuscripts with >43,000 citations, received continuous NIH funding (1970-2020), established an NIH-sponsored specialized Center of Research into sleep apnea and supervised the training of 68 pre-and post-doctoral fellows.

Noted discoveries in humans and animal models include elucidating the mechanisms underlying control of breathing, respiratory muscle work and fatigue, and cardiopulmonary interactions during sleep, exercise and hypoxia in health and cardio-respiratory diseases; respiratory limitations to exercise performance; and study of the pathogenesis, consequences and epidemiology of sleep disordered breathing, including being a founding member of the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort, the first cohort to report the prevalence of sleep-disordered breathing and the consequences of sleep apnea to hypertension and mortality.

Jerry resides in Madison, Wisconsin, USA with his wife, Barbara Morgan, daughter Pamela, son Ben, and granddaughter Bridget.

Clinical Seminar: “Sleep Apnea Pathophysiology”

Date & Time: Wednesday, November 6, 2024 @ 9-9:50am
Location: Dunning Hall 11 OR Join via Zoom (Open Lecture)

Dr. Dempsey will concentrate on the pathogenesis of sleep apnea, especially the causes underlying breathing instability and its role in obstructive apnea, as well as on the cardiovascular sequalae to sleep apnea.

Talk Poster

Please find a copy of the slides for this talk HERE.

Translational Seminar: “Feedback regulation of Exercise Physiology and Performance”

Date & Time: Thursday, November 7th, 2024 @ 10:30-11:20am
Location: Dunning Hall 11 OR Join via Zoom (Open Lecture)

Dr. Dempsey will discuss the obligatory contributions of three types of neural feedback, namely locomotor muscle afferents, respiratory muscle afferents and carotid chemoreceptors, to the ventilatory and cardiovascular responses to exercise and to exercise limitation. Emphasis will be on the role of these feedback mechanisms in healthy humans and animals, with translational reference to their upregulation or dysregulation in chronic cardiorespiratory diseases.

Talk Poster

Please find a copy of the slides for this talk HERE.

1:1 or Small-Group Faculty Meetings

If you are interested in meeting with Dr. Jerome Dempsey 1:1 or as a small group – please email Dr. Nicolle Domnik at n.j.domnik@queensu.ca to inquire about availability and timing.

Trainee Mentorship Lunch – Thursday, November 7th @ 11:30

If you are interested in joining Dr. Jerome Dempsey for a Trainee Mentorship Luncheon – please email Dr. Nicolle Domnik at n.j.domnik@queensu.ca to indicate your interest. Spaces are subject to availability.

Trainee Research Presentations

If you are an undergraduate or graduate research trainee interested in presenting your work (10min presentation + time for feedback) to Dr. Jerome Dempsey and other local/provincial researchers – please email Dr. Nicolle Domnik at n.j.domnik@queensu.ca with your name, supervisor, area of research, and availability on November 6-7. Spaces are subject to availability; we will do our best to curate a diverse research program.

Supporting Resources

For background reading and relevant supporting material to Dr. Dempsey's seminar topics, please see the following three articles.