Managing health science programs including the Spinal Cord Injury Research Program and research awarded through the Defense Medical Research Development Program, Clinical and Rehabilitative Medicine.

Earned faculty positions first in the Departments of Physiology and then in the Department of Anesthesiology and in the Program in Neurosciences.Developed an extensive knowledge base in brain development and brain injury.Reviewed articles for eight journals and reviewed grant proposals for several foundations including the Alzheimer’s Association, The National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and the New Jersey commission on Brain Injury ResearchReceived a patent for a new neurotrophin therapy. Published 26 peer-reviewed articles (38 over career).Taught graduate students, medical students and medical residents in both lecture and problem-based learning format courses.Research involvedmeasurements of mitochondrial function (including oxygen consumption, calcium uptake and free radical production), Parkinson’s Disease, live-cell fluorescence imaging, calcium homeostasis and signaling, ischemia/reperfusion- injury and antioxidant therapy