(The framed picture shown on the upper left corner of the photograph is the original depiction of the pressure-volume diagrams of the lung, chest wall and respiratory system, constructed by Dr. Hermann Rahn at the University of Rochester in 1942.)

Dr. Sadis Matalon was born in Athens, Greece on October 6th, 1948. He received a BA from Macalester College, cum laude with Special Departmental Honors in Physics in 1970. He then enrolled at the University of Minnesota where he earned a Master of Science in Physics in 1973 and a PhD in Physiology in 1975. After spending a year as a postdoctoral fellow at Children’s Hospital in Chicago, IL, he moved to the Department of Physiology at the University of Buffalo as a Research Assistant Professor (1966). He was promoted to Assistant Professor in 1977 and to Associate Professor with tenure at 1982. At 1987 he moved to the Department of Anesthesiology of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He was named the Alice McNeal Professor of Anesthesiology in 1999, appointed Associate Dean for Postdoctoral Education in 2001, Senior Associate Dean of the Graduate School and Assistant Provost of Research in 2002, Acting Associate Provost for Research in December of 2002 and Acting Vice President for Research of UAB in July 2003. He currently serves as the Vice Chair for Research of the Department of Anesthesiology and as the Director of the School of Medicine Pulmonary Injury and Repair Center. The University of Thessaly, Larisa, Greece awarded him an Honorary Doctor of Science Degree in 2010 due to his many accomplishments. He has been continuously funded by NIH since 1978 and is currently is the Principal Investigator of a U54 CounterACT Center of Excellence funded by the NIEHS, a UO1 and a RO1 grant. He currently serves as Deputy Editor of the American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology.

Sadis Matalon, Ph.D., Dr. Sc. (Hon.)
Alice McNeal Professor and Vice Chairman for Research,
Department of Anesthesiology
Professor of Cell Biology, Physiology and Biophysics & Microbiology
Director, Pulmonary Injury and Repair Center
School of Medicine
Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Deputy Editor, American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology
Editor-Elect of the American Journal of Physiology – Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology

 

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