Medical Physiology
A Systems Approach
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Hershel Raff, Michael G. Levitzky, Purchase |
About the Authors
Hershel Raff
Hershel Raff received his
Ph.D. in Environmental
Physiology from the Johns
Hopkins University in 1981
and did postdoctoral training
in Endocrinology at the
University of California at
San Francisco. He joined the
faculty at the Medical College
of Wisconsin in 1983, and rose
to the rank of Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology,
Metabolism, and Clinical Nutrition) and Physiology
in 1991. He is also Director of the Endocrine Research
Laboratory at Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center. At the
Medical College of Wisconsin, he teaches physiology
and pharmacology to medical and graduate students.
He was an inaugural inductee into the Society of
Teaching Scholars, received the Beckman Basic
Science Teaching Award and the Outstanding Teacher
Award, and has been one of the MCW’s Outstanding
Medical Student Teachers each year the award has
been given. Dr Raff was elected to Alpha Omega
Alpha (AOA) Honor Medical Society as a faculty
teacher in 2005. He is also an Adjunct Professor of
Biomedical Sciences at Marquette University. He is
Associate Editor of Advances in Physiology Education.
He was Secretary-Treasurer of the Endocrine Society
and is currently Chair of the Publications Committee
of the American Physiological Society. He was
elected a Fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science in 2005. Dr. Raff ’s basic
research focuses on the adaptation to low oxygen
(hypoxia). His clinical interest focuses on pituitary and
adrenal diseases, with a special focus on the diagnosis
of Cushing’s syndrome. Dr. Raff is also a co-author of
Vander’s Human Physiology (McGraw-Hill) currently
in its 12th Edition, and Physiology Secrets, currently in
its 2nd Edition.
Michael Levitzky
Michael Levitzky is Professor of
Physiology and Anesthesiology
at the Louisiana State University
Health Sciences Center and
is Director of Basic Science
Curriculum at the LSU School
of Medicine in New Orleans.
He received a B.A. from the
University of Pennsylvania in
1969 and a Ph.D. in Physiology
from Albany Medical College in 1975. He joined
the faculty of the LSU School of Medicine in 1975,
rising to the rank of Professor in 1985. He has also
been Adjunct Professor of Physiology at Tulane
University School of Medicine since 1991. Dr.
Levitzky teaches physiology to medical students,
residents, fellows, and graduate students. He has
received numerous teaching awards from student
organizations at both LSU and Tulane. He received
the inaugural LSUHSC Allen A. Copping Award for
Excellence in Teaching in the Basic Sciences in 1997
and the American Physiological Society’s Arthur C.
Guyton Teacher of the Year Award in 1998. He was
elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor
Medical Society as a faculty teacher in 2006. Dr.
Levitzky has served the American Physiological
Society as a member of the Education Committee
and as a member of the Steering Committee of the
Teaching Section. He served as a member of the
National Board of Medical Examiners United States
Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 1
Physiology Test Material Development Committee
from 2007-2011. He is the author or co-author of
several other textbooks, one of which, Pulmonary
Physiology (Lange/McGraw-Hill), is currently in its
7th edition.