About Professor Roger Dampney
My main interest is to understand how the brain regulates the circulation in a way that is most appropriate for particular behaviours (e.g. exercise).
Professor Roger Dampney is an internationally recognised leader in the field of neural control of the circulation, with a particular interest in the mechanisms in the brainstem and hypothalamus that control blood pressure and blood flow throughout the body.
Awards and Prizes: Sir Roy McCaughey Research Award in 1996 and the Dorothy Frances Martin Research Award in 2000 from the National Heart Foundation; Australian Physiological and Pharmacological Society Lecturer in 2000; Leverhulme Fellowship, University of Bristol (2002). Invitations: Invited speaker at 17 major international meetings in the last 10 years, in Australia, Brazil, India, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden, Taiwan, U.K, and the U.S.A.Citations: The total number of citations to publications by Roger Dampney is over 5,800. 12 of his research papers have been cited more than 100 times (including 4 with over 200 citations). His review on the functional organisation of central cardiovascular pathways, published in Physiological Reviews in 1994, has been cited more than 760 times.
Representation on major scientific bodies: Member of the Board of the NHF (NSW Division)(2006-2008), of the NHF Scientific and Medical Advisory Board, NSW Division (1997-2001) and of the Research Committee, NHF (1997-1998); NHMRC representative on the Board of Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute (1996-2009); member of the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Physiology (2001-) and of Experimental Physiology (2001-2005); member of the Organising Committee for three major international conferences, including the World Congress of Cardiology (2002).
Other distinctions: Doctor of Science, University of Sydney, 1996; Personal Chair in Cardiovascular Neuroscience, University of Sydney, January 1997; Head of Department of Physiology, December 1999-May 2002. In the last 10 years five visiting postdoctoral or professorial fellows (from Japan, Brazil, and the U.S.A) have worked in Roger Dampney’s laboratory.