Aaron Phillips
Associate Professor
Contact information
Research
Research areas
- Vascular and cardiac ultrasound
- Beat-by-beat blood pressure
- MRI
- Orthostatic stress testing
- Arterial blood gas reactivity testing
- Surgically implanted and non-invasive neurostimulation modalities
- CLARITY
- Arterial cannulation
- Spinal cord transection/contusion
Research Activities
Dr. Phillips uses a combination of integrated physiology and neuroscience, with the aim of deeply understanding autonomic and cardiovascular function. Currently, the laboratory has two primary foci. The first is to understand the mechanisms underlying neurovascular regulation in the human brain. The second is to develop a neurostimulation therapy to restore healthy autonomic and cardiovascular function in those living with a spinal cord injury.
Administrative Assistant
Lisa Mesluk
lmesluk@ucalgary.ca
403-220-2268
Trainees at the Post Doctoral, graduate, or undergraduate level interested in these areas of research, please review this ad and send your CV and a letter of interest to Ms. Lisa Mesluk at lmesluk@ucalgary.ca
Biography
Aaron Phillips was trained in Experimental Medicine, Biosciences and Mathematics. His appreciation of the interactions between the nervous and cardiovascular systems, and understanding how these systems are disrupted in the presence of clinical conditions, has driven his research into the development of novel therapies for people with neurological health issues. After obtaining the Banting, CIHR, NSERC, Heart & Stroke Foundation, and Craig Neilsen Fellowships as well as the Killam Research Award during his post-doc at the University of British Columba (UBC), he established his laboratory at the University of Calgary in 2017. He is now a Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology, Clinical Neurosciences, and Cardiac Sciences. Within the Foothills Medical Centre, he is Director of RESTORE.net, which is a platform dedicated to developing translational technology for neurological injury. He has received the Brain Canada Future Leader Award, The Arthur Guyton Award in Excellence in Physiology from the American Physiological Society, and the Top 40 Under 40 from Avenue Magazine. He has funding from several organizations including CIHR, NSERC, PRAXIS, Wings for Life, and the US Military through DARPA. He also publishes in top journals including Nature, Neurology, and Nature Biotechnology.