Physiological Sciences

Jefferson Frisbee, Ph.D. FAHA, FAPS—Department Head

The Department of Physiological Sciences at Oklahoma State University contributes substantially to the teaching, research and service components of the College of Veterinary Medicine.

The department currently has 18 tenure/tenure-track, one adjunct and four research track faculty members, three postdoctoral fellows and approximately 30 graduate students.

Teaching responsibilities within the department include the areas of veterinary morphology, physiology, pharmacology and toxicology, providing professional coursework leading to the DVM degree and graduate coursework leading to the Masters and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. Departmental faculty have a wide range of research interests including neurotoxicology, lung biology, enzymology of drug metabolism, exercise physiology, reproductive physiology, therapeutics, comparative aging, and cardiovascular physiology. Extramural funding in support of research from agencies including NIH, DoD, USDA, American Cancer Society and others totals over $2 million annually.

Professor, Department Head: Jefferson Frisbee, PhD, FAHA, FAPS
Regents Professors: Lin Liu, BS, PhD (Lundberg-Kienlen Professor of Biomedical Research)
Professors: Natarajan Aravindan, MS, MPhil, PhD, CCA; *Martin Furr, DVM, Diplomate ACVIM, PhD; *Veronique Lacombe, DVM, PhD, Diplomate ACVIM, Diplomate ECEIM; *Lara K. Maxwell, DVM, PhD; David W. Ussery, PhD
Associate Professors: Jill Akkerman, DVM, PhD; Joshua Butcher, MS, PhD; Henrique Cheng, DVM, MS, PhD; Myron Hinsdale, DVM, PhD; Sudhakar Jha, PS, MS, PhD; Madhan Subramanian, BVSc, PhD
Assistant Professors: Xufang Deng, BS, MS, PhD; Neeraj Singh, BVSc, MVSc, PhD
Teaching Associate Professor: *Deon van der Merwe, BVSc, MSc, PhD, ERT
Teaching Assistant Professor: Girish Patil, PhD
Research Associate Professor: Chaoqun Huang, MD, PhD
Research Assistant Professors: Yurong Liang, BS, PhD; Danny Maples, PhD; Kishore Vaddadi, PhD
Emeriti Faculty: Guangping Chen, MS, PhD; Nicholas L. Cross, PhD; *Michael S. Davis, DVM, MS, PhD; James W. Lish, MS, PhD; Jerry R. Malayer, PhD; Joseph P. McCann, PhD; Sandra E. Morgan, MS, DVM; Charlotte L. Ownby, MS, PhD; Carey N. Pope, PhD (Sitlington Chair in Toxicology); Larry E. Stein, PhD; Alastair G. Watson, BVSc, PhD
Post-Doctoral Fellows: Benny Borin, PhD; Ranabir Majumder, PhD; Loganayaki Periyasamy, PhD
Graduate Research Associates: Kainat Ahmed, PhD; Momtaz Bukharid, PhD; Landon Butler, PhD; Karen Chhetri, PhD; Xiang Chi, PhD; Ashwath Keshav Giri, PhD; Mozafar Hajijafarianaraki, PhD; Nazmul Haque, PhD; Afsana Parveen Jahir Hussain, PhD; Tasnim Islam, PhD; Prince Jhandai, PhD; Xueying Liang, PhD; Anna Claire McMullen, PhD; Sreenidhi Mohanvelu, PhD; Dharanya Muthiah, PhD; Paven Nagdev, PhD; Diani Nanayakkara, PhD; Sivasubramani Narayanan, PhD; Madha Oli Ramamurthy, PhD; Sabir Salim, PhD; Keerthana Santhosh, PhD; Md Samun Sarker, PhD; Komal Shoaib, MS; Yashaswi Raj Subedi, PhD; Poorvi Subramanian, PhD; Akshaya Surendran, PhD; Elizabeth Varghese, PhD; UdayKiran Venugopal, PhD; Qianru Zhang, PhD
Staff: Colin Kokenes, BS; Christopher H. Pivinski, BS; Jessica Schultz, BS, MS; Aake Vaestermark, PhD; Kerrie Williams, AS

*Board Certification in Specialty Area