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 275 – Exercise Physiology I (Fall 2007 - lab notes)

Through lecture and laboratory experiences the acute the acute and chronic effects of exercise on body systems will be studied. The basic concepts of cardiovascular, respiratory and muscular responses to exercise will be covered. Upon completion of this course, successful students will be able to: (1) describe the acute responses to dynamic exercise from a ‘systems’ approach and (2) integrate knowledge of the main physiological systems and be able to describe the acute and training responses to exercise.

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.