Steering Committee

Caroline Rickards, PhD

Chair

Specialty: physiology; cerebral blood flow and tissue oxygenation; hemorrhage and hypovolemia; lower body negative pressure; human models.

Patrice Brassard, PhD

Project Coordinator

Email: patrice.brassard@kin.ulaval.ca

Keywords: cerebrovascular physiology; dynamic cerebral autoregulation; cerebral pressure-flow relationship; cerebral sympathetic nervous activity; environmental stress

Marc-Antoine Roy, MSc

Technical Coordinator

Email: marc-antoine.roy.5@ulaval.ca

Specialty : dynamic cerebral autoregulation; directional sensitivity; sympathetic nervous activity; OLBNP; repeated squat-stands

Timo Klein, PhD

Co-Opted Member

Early Career Representative

Email: timo.klein@uni-rostock.de

Specialty: acute exercise; exercise training; ageing; environmental stressors; extreme environments

Alicen Whitaker-Hilbig, DPT, PhD

Secretary

Email: awhitakerhilbig@mcw.edu

Specialty: exercise physiology; cerebral regulation; peripheral and transcranial Doppler ultrasound; neurorehabilitation; stroke clinical trials.

Lucy Beishon, PhD

Funding Coordinator

Email: lb330@le.ac.uk

Specialty:neurovascular coupling; Alzheimer’s disease; dementia; mild cognitive impairment; ageing

Ryan Hoiland, PhD

Ordinary Member

Email: ryan.hoiland@ubc.ca

Specialty: human physiology; hypoxic-ischemic brain injury; transcranial doppler ultrasound; duplex ultrasound; CO2 reactivity

Wahbi El-Bouri, PhD

Treasurer

Email: w.el-bouri@liverpool.ac.uk

Specialty: digital twins; mathematical and computational modelling; fluid dynamics; eye-brain coupling; AI

Jatinder Minhas, MD

Funding Coordinator

Email: jm591@le.ac.uk

Specialty: acute intracerebral haemorrhage; cerebrovascular reactivity; acute ischaemic stroke; multimodality; carbon dioxide

Nathalie Nasr, MD, PhD

Co-Opted Member

Email: Nathalie.Nasr@univ-poitiers.fr

Specialty: cerebral autoregulation; stroke; autonomic nervous system; intracranial pressure; traumatic brain injury