Live Online Research Update
Lead Researcher, Dr Hemal Patel from University of California, San Diego
Saturday, October 26
Dr. Hemal Patel is a Tenured Professor and Vice-Chair for Research in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of California, San Diego, and has a dual appointment as a VA Research Career Scientist and VA Research Pharmacologist at the VA San Diego Healthcare System. He is also the Chief Scientific Officer for Versea Discovery.
He obtained his Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Toxicology from the Medical College of Wisconsin and did postdoctoral work at UCSD in the Department of Pharmacology under Paul Insel (2002-2005).
He has made seminal contributions in shaping new investigation areas on defining the impact of membrane structure on cell, organ, and organismal physiology and metabolism with implications for cardiac ischemia-reperfusion injury, heart failure, diabetic cardiomyopathy, aging, pulmonary hypertension, cancer, and neurodegeneration.
Hemal is currently working on a new area of research to discover the molecular and biochemical signatures generated during meditation that impact human potential for health and disease management. His focus on energetics in cell biology touches upon all these and is a control point for managing and empowering human health resilience.