Bill Sheel

		Office:	Osborne Ctr Unit II - Room 208
		Phone:	604-822-4459
		Fax:	604-822-9451
		Lab:	Health and Integrative Physiology
		EMail:	bill.sheel@ubc.ca
Associate Professor

Background

University of New Brunswick, B.P.E. 1993; University of British Columbia, M.Sc. (Human Kinetics) 1995; University of British Columbia, Ph.D. (Human Kinetics) 1999; University of Wisconsin-Madison (Preventive Medicine) Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2000.

Specialization

Exercise Science - exercise physiology, respiratory and cardiovascular physiology, athletic performance

Courses Taught

HKIN 489c - Pulmonary Physiology of Exercise (2009)

The purpose of this course is to understand how is it is the lungs, chest wall, and ventilatory control mechanisms operate during dynamic whole-body exercise. Additional emphasis will be placed on how it is the respiratory and cardiovascular systems interact during exercise. Different human models will be used to illustrate key physiological principles and provide context (i.e., application of physiology). For example, elite athletes, disease (i.e., asthma, obstructive lung disease, lung transplant) and environmental hypoxia will be discussed.

Research

The research theme in our laboratory is integrative human exercise physiology. The interactions between the physiology of the heart, circulation, lungs, and chest wall are complex. Reductionist approaches have studied each system in isolation and have provided valuable insight into these complexities. However, the true power of the reductionist approach is realized when it is reincorporated into the integrationist one. The main theme of my research program is that the respiratory and cardiovascular systems are inextricably integrated and exert functional influences on each other. For more information please see the Health and Integrative Physiology page.