Department of Physiology - The University of Arizona

Douglas Stuart

Regents' Professor Emeritus

Contact Information

Address: Faculty Office Bldg. 131A
PO Box 245051
Tucson, AZ 85724
Phone: (520) 626-7103
Email: dgstuart@u.arizona.edu


Website: http://www.physiology.arizona.edu/index.php/articles/12

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Research Interests

The electrophysiological properties of spinal motoneurons and interneurons

Motor control neurobiology

History of movement neuroscience

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Curriculum Vitae

Regents' Professor Emeritus of Physiology, The University of Arizona

PERSONAL
Date/Place of Birth: 10/05/1931, Casino, NSW, Australia
Citizenship: Naturalized U S Citizen, 1961
Family Status: Married (6/8/57), 4 children, 7 grandchildren

ADDRESSES
Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson, AZ  85724-5051
Phone: 520-626-7103.  Fax: 520-626-2383. E-mail: dgstuart@u.arizona.edu
1449 S Miller Creek Pl, Tucson, AZ 85748
Phone: 520-296-7924

EDUCATION
Diploma in Physical Education (PE) 1950
BS (PE; physiology) 1955; MA (PE; physiology) 1956
PhD (Physiology) 1961; Postdoctoral (Movement Neuroscience) 1961-63
Dissertation Title: Prosencephalic modulation of shivering in the cat
Dissertation Director: Allan Hemingway, PhD (1902-1972)
Postdoctoral Project: Properties of mammalian muscle receptors
Postdoctoral Advisor: Earl Eldred, MD

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Teacher 1951-53
Teaching and graduate research assistant 1955-56
Predoctoral Fellow  1957-61; Assistant Professor (in-residence) 1963-65
Department of Anatomy: Postdoctoral Fellow 1961-63
Research Physiologist 1961-65
Associate Professor 1965-67
Associate Dean for Research 1991-96
Properties of the segmental motor system; Neurobiology of muscle fatigue; History of movement neuroscience

HONORS AND AWARDS
USPHS Predoctoral Fellow - UCLA Mental Health Training Program: for temperature regulation studies with Professor Allan Hemingway, Dept Physiology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 1958-61
Bank of America-Giannini Foundation Postdoctoral Medical Research Fellow: for muscle receptor studies with Professor Earl Eldred, Dept Anatomy, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 1961-63
USPHS Special Research Fellowship: for spinal-cord studies with Professor Anders Lundberg, Dept Physiology, University of Goteborg, Goteborg, SWE 1971-72
Guggenheim Fellow: for studies in clinical neurophysiology with Dr David Burke, Unit of Clinical Neurophysiology, The Prince Henry Hospital, University of New South Wales, Sydney, AUS 1976-77
Senator Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator, a NINCDS award, National Institutes of Health 1984-91
Keynote Speaker, 5th Annual Faculty Teaching Awards, College of Medicine, University of Arizona 1985
Seventh Annual Neuroscience Lecture, Neurological Sciences Institute, Good Samaritan Hospital, Portland, OR 1987
Grass Foundation Traveling Scientist: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MA, CAN, 1989; University of Delaware, Newark, DE 2001
Eleventh Annual Founders Day Speaker, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, 1989
Regents' Professor, University of Arizona 1990
John Marley Leadership Award, Section on Research, American Physical Therapy Association 1995
Graduation Convocation Speaker, College of Health Professions, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 1995
Certificate of Recognition for Contributions in Teaching, Research, and Service in Neuroscience, The University of Arizona 1998
Invited Speaker, Dedication of Biology/Biochemistry Building, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 2000
Invited speaker, Flinn Foundation Finale Dinner, Motor Control Laboratory, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ  2000
Named University of Arizona Fellowship in Perpetuity, "The Douglas G Stuart  Predoctoral Fellowship in Movement Neuroscience"  2002-Pres
Award for contributions to Biomedical Engineering, The University of Arizona  2003
Award for Contributions to Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs, The University of Arizona  2004

UNIVERSITY AND PROFESSIONAL COMMITTEES AND ASSIGNMENTS
Admissions Committee 1965-67
Biomedical Engineering Committee1965-67
Steering Committee, University-wide Physiology Group 1965-67
All-campus Computer Committee 1966-67
Promotion and Tenure Committee (Chair) 1973-87
PhD Graduate Program Committee 1977-81
Admissions Committee 1967-70
Animal Research Facility Committee 1969-78
Promotion and Tenure Committee 1973-75 (Chair, 74-75)
Acting Head, Dept Physiology 1974-75, 1987-88
Review Committee, Dept Internal Medicine 1975
Long Range Planning Committee (Chair) 1977-78
Academic Honesty Committee 1977-80
Nominating Committee 1980-84
Biomedical Communications 1982-83
Acting Head, Dept Anatomy 1984-86
LCME Task Force 1986-87
Review Committee, Dept Psychiatry 1987
Founders Day Speaker Selection Committee 1990-92 (Chair 1990)
United Way Campaign (Chair) 1990
Dean's Research Council (Chair) 1991-96
Search Committee, Director Respiratory Sciences Center (Chair) 1994-95
Search Committee, Chair Dept Neurology 1994-95
Review Committee, Respiratory Sciences Center (Chair) 1998
Graduate College Representative 1970-75, 1999-02
Biomedical Engineering Committee 1972-76
Graduate Council 1975-84
University Delegation (n=20) to Peoples Republic of China (1 month) 1976
Executive Council, Committee on Interdisciplinary Neurosciences 1981-86 (Chair, 82-86)
Advisory Board, Arizona Research Laboratories 1981-88
Search Committee, Head ARL Division of Neurobiology 1982-83
Search Committee, Dean of Nursing 1985-86
Honorary Degree Advisory Committee 1986-91
Search Committee, Dean of Agriculture 1986-87
Building and Space Committee, Life Sciences North 1986-90
Ad Hoc Committee for Review of Graduate Degree Programs in the Biological Sciences (Chair) 1987-88
Regents' Professor Advisory Committee 1987-89
Search Committee, Dean of Medicine 1987-88
Ad Hoc Review Committee, Dept Speech and Hearing Sciences (Chair) 1988
Search Committee, Chair Dept Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering 1988-89
Ad Hoc Bioengineering Committee 1988-89
Search Committee, Chair Dept Animal Science 1988-89
President's Advisory Budget Priorities Planning Task Force 1990-91
President's Special Task Force on Undergraduate Education (Fall Semester) 1991-92
Search Committee, Provost of University 1991-92
UA Technical Advisory Committee: Targeted industry analysis of  S Arizona biotechnology1992
Advisory Board UA National Center for Neurogenic Communication Disorders (Chair) 1992-02
GSPED Participant 1992-02
CORe Strategic Objective 33 Team 1993-94
Service Center Committee 1993-94
Search Committee, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs 1993
Arizona Optics Initiative Committee 1994-96
Graduate Education and Research Advancement Board 1996-02
Search Committee, Dean of Engineering and Mines 1997-98
Ad Hoc Committee on Ground Rules for Implementation of Eminent Scholars' Program, Office of the Vice President for Research 1997-98
Review Committee, Dept Speech and Hearing Sciences 1999-00
Ad Hoc Committee on Research on Neuroimaging, Office of the Vice President for  Research 1999
Faculty Advisory Committee, Institute for Biomedical Science and Technology 2001
Provost's Ad Hoc Committee for Selection of Koffler Prizes 2002
Medical Advisory Board, Fan Kane Fund for Brain-Injured Children, Tucson, AZ 1971-96
Affiliate Staff, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix 1988-94
Governor's Strategic Plan for Economic Development (GSPED) Cluster on Bioindustry  1991-02
University of Arizona Science and Technology Park Board of Directors, Campus Research Corporation (Secretary/Treasurer) 1994-98
Arizona Chapter of Society for Neuroscience 1995-97 (President, 95-96;   Past-President, 96-97)
Technical Advisory Committee- Targeted industry analysis of AZ bioindustry 1996-97
NIH Applied Physiology and Biomedical Engineering Study Section 1974-78
Editorial Board, American Journal of Physical Medicine 1975-87
Steering Committee, Section on the Nervous System, American Physiological Society 1979-81
Editorial Board, Journal of Neurophysiology 1979-84
Editorial Board, Experimental Neurology 1982-87
Journal Club Correspondent, Trends in Neurosciences 1983-86
USA National Committee, IUPS 1984-92 (Vice Chair, 86-89; Chair, 89-92)
Public Information Committee, Society for Neuroscience 1985-87
Physiology Test Committee, National Board of Medical Examiners 1986-89
Scientific Advisory Committee, Muscular Dystrophy Association 1987-89
Visiting Professor, Department of Neurology, University of New South Wales 1977, '87, '91
Association of Chairs of North American Departments of Physiology 1988-91
(Secretary/Treasurer,1989-91)
Handbook Advisory Committee, American Physiological Society 1988-91 (Chair,  1989-91)
International Advisory Commission, International Symposia on Motor Control
(Sofia, Bulgaria; quadrennial) 1989-00
Vice President for Academe, Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute 1990-Pres
Motor Control Commission, International Union of Physiological Sciences 1993-Pres
Judge (for American Physiological Society), 47th International Science and Engineering Fair, Tucson, AZ 1996
International Advisory Commission, International Symposium on Motor Control,
St Petersburg/Moscow, Russia 1996-97
NINDS Steering Committee, USA-Japan Brain Research Cooperative Program  2000-03
Senior Physiologists Committee, American Physiological Society  2001-03
PhD Dissertation of Robert D Forman, Loyola University, Chicago, IL 1973
PhD Dissertation of Robert M Brownstone, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, CAN 1989
PhD Dissertation of Jonas Pedersen, University of Umea, SWE 1997
Doctor of Science Application of James Colebatch, MD, PhD, University of New South Wales, AUS  2004
UCLA: Department of Kinesiology 1987
University of Chicago: Department of Anatomy and Organismal Biology 1991
National University of Singapore: Department of Physiology 1991
Queen's University, CAN: Medical Research Council Neuroscience Group 1993
Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute: Department of Neural Control 1993
Kuwait University: MS Program, Department of Physiology 1996
University of Newcastle, AUS: Discipline of Anatomy 1999
National Institute of Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, JPN:  Department of Biological Control System 2000
Georgia Institute of Technology: Department of Applied Physiology:2003
University of Alberta, CAN: Faculty of Rehabititation Medicine 2004
International Human Frontier Science Program 1990-Pres
Israel Science Foundation 1996-Pres
MRC and NSERC (CAN) Grant Applications and Site Visits 1978-Pres
NASA, NIH, NSF and VA Grant Applications, Study Sections and Site Visits 1972-Pres
NATO Collaborative Research Grants 1980-Pres
NH & MRC and Research Council (AUS) Grant Applications 1980-Pres
Spinal Cord Research Foundation 1985-Pres
USA-Israel Binational Science Foundation 1980-Pres
American Journal of Anatomy 1975-Pres
Brain Research 1983-Pres
Experimental Brain Research 1978-Pres
Journal of Applied Physiology 1978-Pres
Journal of Morphology 1980-Pres
Journal of Neurophysiology 1975-79, 1985-Pres
Journal of Neuroscience 1981-Pres
Journal of Physiology (London) 1990-Pres
Muscle & Nerve 1985-Pres
DRG-Orthopedics and Musculoskeletal 1981, '84
NHLB 1982
NINCDS 1981,1986

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND RECOGNITIONS
American Physiological Society
Society for Neuroscience
International Brain Research Organization
American Association for the Advancement of Science
NB 05199 "Thermal and motor aspects of hypothalamic function" , ~$40,000/yr 1964-67
NB/NS 07888  "Neural aspects of posture and locomotion" ~ $70,000-110,000/yr (No new funds in 1977-78) 1967-78
NS 07888 "Analysis of motor unit-muscle receptor interactions",  ~$70-110,000/yr    1978-84
NS 07888  "Organization of spinal motor pathways", ~$75-110,000/yr 1984-87
NS 25077 "Fatigue of segmental motor mechanisms", ~$166,000/yr, '97-'00 ($27,788 for  '00-'03) 1987-02
NS 20544  "Effects of limb immobilization on motor control", $64,000-105,000/yr; Co-PI, RM Enoka 1984-92 (Senator Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award)
NS 2076  "Biochemistry and physiology of motor units" (Co-PI, PM Nemeth, Washington Univ, St Louis, MO); UA consortium portion ~$48,000/yr 1984--89
NS 07309 "Training program in motor-control neurobiology", ~ $127,000-165,000/yr 1987-03
AR 41462 "Conference: biomechanics and neural control of movement"  $20,000 1992
NS 41876 "Conference: movement and sensation" $10,000 2001-02
NAGW 338  "Effects of muscle atrophy on motor control" (Co-I, RM Enoka)  ~$33,000-48,000/yr 1982-85
INT 8520863 "Cooperative program in motor control" (6-person exchange with Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), ~$55,000 1986-89
"Conference: Arizona Biomedical Research '94", $20,000 1994
 "Conference: Neural and neuromuscular aspects of muscle fatigue", $14,000 1994
HL 05884 "Graduate training in physiology" (PI, PC Johnson); 6-12 Co-Is);  ~$86,400 -92,00/yr 1969-87
NS 11491 "Analysis of cat locomotion", (PI, MC Wetzel),  ~$45,000-70,000/yr 1973-76
NS/AM 17887 "Properties and segmental actions of Golgi tendon organs", (PI, TM Hamm), ~50,000/yr 1982-85
NS 22454  "Analysis of the recurrent Renshaw circuit",  (PI, TM Hamm, BNI, Phoenix, AZ);  UA consortium portion ~$54,0000/yr 1986-89
NS 20762 "Biochemistry and physiology of motor units",  (PI, PM Nemeth, Washington Univ, St Louis, MO;  UA consortium Co-PI, RM Enoka; ~$48,000/yr 1989-92
NS 20544  "Effects of limb immobilization on motor control" (PI, RM Enoka);  ~$125,000/yr 1991-94
GM 08400 "Graduate training in systems and integrative physiology" (PIs, WH Dantzler/RB Levine; 25 Co-Is); ~$120,000/yr  1991-06
NS 34256 "Conference: Neurons, networks, and motor behavior" ( PI, PSG Stein; Other  Co-Is, S Grillner, A Selverston) ~$21,000 1995 ( Also supported by MIT Press, $3,500; NSF, $8,000; DoD-ONR, $10,731; UA VP for Research, $5,000;  ISF Travel Grant, $1,100)
NS 07434  "Predoctoral training program in neuroscience" (PI, RB Levine; 40 Co-Is), ~$103,200/yr 1997-00
Ministry of Education "Primate locomotion and higher nervous activity" (PI, S Mori);  ~10,000/yr  2001-04 (Exchange between National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, JPN and AZ Movement Neuroscience Group)
USPHS award for XXVth International Congress of Physiological Sciences, Munich, FRG 1971
American Physiological Society award for XXVIth International Congress of Physiological Sciences, New Delhi, IND 1974
Guggenheim Fellowship included funds to present seminars in Australian and Swedish Universities and for XXVIIth International Congress of Physiological Sciences, Paris, FRA 1976-77
American Physiological Society award for XXVIIIth International Congress of Physiological Sciences, Budapest, HUN 1980
University of Arizona and Bulgarian Academy of Science awards for 4th International Symposium on Motor Control, Varna, BUL 1981
Australian Academy of Sciences award for an IUPS Satellite Symposium, Canberra, AUS 1983
Prince Henry Hospital award for consultation, Sydney, NSW, AUS 1983
USA and Bulgarian Academies of Science awards for 5th International
Symposium on Motor Control, Varna, Bulgaria and to consult and present seminars in Sofia, BUL 1985
Universities of Arizona and Goteborg awards for A Lundberg Festschrift Symposium, Goteborg, SWE 1985
University of Arizona and Bishop of Paphos awards for International Motor Control Symposium, Paphos, CYP 1988
American Physiological Society award for XXXIth International Congress of
Physiological Sciences, Helsinki, FIN 1989
National University of Singapore award for consultation on Dept Physiology, SGP  1991
University of Arizona award for the VIIth International Symposium on Motor Control, Borovets, BUL 1993
Queen's University Award for Prof V Abrahams Festschrift Symposium,  Kingston, ON,  CAN 1995
Kuwait University Award for consultation on graduate MS program in physiology 1995
University of Arizona Award for the VIIIth International Symposium on Motor Control,       Borovets, BUL 1996
Polish Academy of Sciences Award for 38th ICB Workshop, Warsaw, POL 1997
University of Arizona Award for an international symposium, "Brain and Movement", St Petersburg/Moscow, RUS 1997
Emory University Award for Prof J Munson Festschrift Symposium, Atlanta, GA 1998
Visiting Faculty Award (3.5 mos) for collaboration with Dr RJ Callister, Discipline of Anatomy, University of Newcastle, NSW, AUS 1999
Visiting Scientist Award (3.5 mos) for collaboration with Prof S Mori, National Institute of  Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, JPN 1999
NATO and University of Arizona Awards for an Advanced Research Worskshop, Varna,  BUL 2000
Canadian Physiological and Pharmacological Association Award for Prof R Stein  Festschrift Symposium, Vernon, BC, CAN 2004
Perkins traveling fellowship (American Physiological Society) for Prof A Taylor 1974-75
Postdoctoral fellowship (Canadian MRC) for Dr DGD Watt 1974-75
Postdoctoral fellowship (MDAA) for Dr MD Binder 1976-78
Postdoctoral fellowship (USPHS) for Dr BR Botterman 1978-80
Postdoctoral fellowship (MDAA) for Dr JC McDonagh 1979-80
Traveling fellowship (NATO, Western Europe) for Professor U Tan 1979-80
Postdoctoral fellowship (USPHS) for Dr TM Hamm 1980-82
Traveling fellowship (DAAD, FRG) for Dr W Koehler 1981-82
New investigator award (USPHS) for Dr TM Hamm 1982-85
Traveling fellowship (DAAD, FRG) for Professor U Windhorst 1985
Traveling fellowship (Academy of Sciences, USA and Bulgaria) for Dr TM Hamm 1985
Traveling fellowship (University of Arizona) for Dr Y Laouris 1988
Traveling fellowship (University of Western Ontario) for Dr J Garland  1988-90
Postdoctoral fellowship (USPHS) for Dr GA Robinson 1989-90
Traveling fellowship (Australian NH & MRC) for Dr MA Nordstrom 1989-91
Predoctoral fellowship (Flinn Foundation), to TG Hornby  1995
Predoctoral fellowship (American Psychological Association) for TG Hornby 1995-97
Postdoctoral fellowship (USPHS) for Dr E Gilliam 1996-97
Postdoctoral fellowhip (Spinal Cord Research Foundation) for Dr E Gilliam 1997-1999

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Anatomy 101 - Human Anatomy 100 med/grad 1961-63
    Topics: muscles and joints
Physiology 101 - Human Physiology 100 med/grad 1963-64
    Topic: respiration
Physiology 101A - Human Physiology 24 dent 1964-65
    Topic: respiration
Physiology 101 - Mammalian Physiology 80 vetmed/grad 1965-68
    Topics: nerve-muscle-synapse-CNS
Physiology 601/801 - Human Physiology 32-100 med/grad 1968-84
    Topics: nerve-muscle-synapse; temp reg; exercise
Physiology 601A - Readings in Human Physiology 2-4 grad  1968-92
    Topic: systems neurophysiology
Physiology 605/805 - Neurosciences  32-100 med/grad  1967-96
    Topic: CNS neurophysiology
Physiology 610 - Res Methods  2-3 grad  1970-96
    Topic: motor control
Physiology 696a -Seminar 1-2 grad  1970-02
    Topic: motor control
Physiology 696b -Tutorial  1-2 grad 1970-02
    Topic: motor control
Physiology 418- Physiology for Engineers 15 undergrad/grad  1972-96 (Intermittent)
    Topic: CNS neurophysiology
Physiology 606 - Readings in Neuroscience 1-4 grad 1977-2002
    Topics: neuroanatomy, CNS neurophysiology
Medicine 495 A, B - Intro to Neurosciences 30-50 K-12 1973,'76,'79, '82, '86
    Topic: CNS neurophysiology
Physiology 695 - Motor Control Colloquium  10-15 grad  1986-02
    Topic: movement neuroscience
Physiology 595m-Doings in Motor Control 10-20 grad/10-20 postdoc 1986-2004
    Topic: movement neuroscience
Physiology 818 - Neurophysiology for Neurologists 14-20 residents/fac 1988-90
    Topic: CNS neurophysiology
Physiology 589 -Systems Neurobiology 3-8 grad 1989-1997
    Topic: motor control
EEB 159a,b - Anatomy and Physiology 450 undergrad 1990-91
    Topic: brain structure and function
Physiology 195a - Freshman Colloquium 10-20 undergrad 1992-02
    Topic: brain/muscle
Physiology 480/580 - Human Physiology 120 undergrad/10-20 grad 1995-02
    Topics: temp regul, fever, exercise
Honors 396H - Regents' Professors Frontiers  5-10 undergrad 1993-95
    Topic: motor control
Physiology 620 - Systems Neurophysiology  4-6 grad 1996-02
    Topic: CNS neurophysiology
Physiology 549  Academic Survival Skills 30-50 undergrad/grad 1996-2005
    Topic: Research university culture
Biology 444 - Human Physiology 50-85 undergrad 1991-00
    Topics: nerve-muscle-synapse
Physical Therapy 560 - Neuroscience 40 grad 2001-Pres
    Topics: motor control
BEM 598 - Bioengineering 6-10 grad 1993-1998
    Topic: motor control

DIRECTED RESEARCH
Koichi Ishikawa, MD, Associate Professor of Neurology, Univ Southern California and private-practice neurologist, Los Angeles, CA 1964-67
Kenneth B Campbell, DVM, PhD, Professor of Physiology and Biophysics,  Washington State University, Pullman, WA 1965-67
John A Stephens, PhD, Professor of Physiology, University College, GBR 1972-74
Edward K Stauffer, PhD, Associate Professor of Physiology,  University of Minnesota, Duluth, MI 1974-75
Douglas G D Watt, PhD, MD, Professor of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, QU, CAN 1974-75
Marc D Binder, PhD, Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 1975-78
Barry R Botterman, PhD, Associate Professor of Cell Biology, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Dallas, TX 1977-80
Thomas M Hamm, PhD, Staff Neurobiologist, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix,  AZ 1979-82
Jennifer L McDonagh, PhD, PT, Associate Professor of Physical Therapy, Arizona School of Health Sciences, Mesa, AZ (Retired) 1979-80
Walther Koehler, MD, PhD, Private-sector neuologist, Bonn, GER 1980-82
Sharyn Vanden Noven, PT, PhD (Deceased), Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy, Hong Kong Polytechnical University, HKG  1984-85
Chun-Su Yuan, MD, PhD, Professor of Anesthesiology/Critical Care and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 1986-87
Grant A Robinson, PhD, Assistant Research Professor of Neurosurgery, Duke  University, Durham, NC 1986-89
S Jayne Garland, PT, PhD, Professor of Physical Therapy (Dept Head) and Physiology, University of Western Ontario, ON, CAN 1988-89
Yiannakis C Laouris, MD, PhD, Director, Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology  Institute, Nicosia, CYP 1988-91
Michael A Nordstrom, DDS, PhD, Associate Professor of Physiology (Div Head),
University of Adelaide, SA, AUS 1989-91
Robert J Callister, PhD, Associate Professor of Anatomy, University of Newcastle, NSW,  AUS 1990-92
Edwin E Gilliam, MSN, PhD, Neurology/Neurosurgery Nurse Practitioner, University Medical Center, Tucson, AZ��� 1994-97
Edward K Stauffer, PhD, Associate Professor of Physiology, University of Minnesota,     Duluth, MN 1970-74
Jennifer L McDonagh, PhD, PT, Associate Professor of Physical Therapy, Arizona School of Health Sciences, Phoenix, AZ (Retired) 1975-79
William E Cameron, PhD, Associate Professor of Physiology,  Oregon Health &   Sciences University, Portland, OR 1975-79
Dennis D Roscoe, PhD, Co-CEO, MPACS-LLC, Madison, WI 1977-80
Sharyn Vanden Noven, PT, PhD (Deceased), Assistant  Professor of Physical Therapy, Hong Kong Polytechnical University, HKG 1979-84
Chun-Su Yuan, MD, PhD, Professor of Anesthesiology/Critical Care and Clinical  Pharmacology, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 1980-86
Lucinda L Rankin, PhD, Lecturer in Physiology and Molecular and Cellular Biology,  University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 1983-87
Debra A Gordon, PhD, Patent Attorney, Klarquist Sparkman-LLP, Portland, OR 1982-88
John M Spielmann, PhD, MD, Anesthesiologist, White Oak Anesthesiology Associates,  Buffalo Hospital, Buffalo, MN 1986-91
Leslie Bevan, PhD, Director, Research Support Office, Oregon Health & Sciences  University, Portland, OR (Retired) 1986-91
Thomas G Hornby, PhD, PT, Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy, University of   Illinois-Chicago, IL 1994-98
Rebecca L Gerlach, MS, Head Administrative Assistant of Radiology, University of   Washington, Seattle, WA (Retired) 1974-76
William C Nemeth, MD, Texas State Medical Administration (former Orthopedic   Surgeon), Austin, TX  1969-75
Michael J Joyner, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology,  Mayo Medical School, Rochester,  MN 1983-87
Richard P Donnelly, BA, BS, Research Technician in Physiology, Pennsylvania State     University, College Park, PA 1992-93
Dan S Pavicich, BS, Medical Representative, Organon, Inc, Tucson, AZ 1992-94

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH
Yojira Kawamura, MD, Professor/Chairman (Physiology)/Dean, School of Dentistry, Osaka University, JPN (Emeritus) 1960
Robert W Porter, MD, PhD, Professor of Neurological Surgery, University of California, Irvine, CA (Emeritus) 1961-65
W Ross Adey, MD, PhD (Deceased), Director of Research, VA Medical Center, Loma  Linda, CA 1961-64
David S Maxwell, PhD, Professor of Anatomy, University of California, Los Angeles, CA (Emeritus) 1961-62
Mahlon D Fairchild, PhD, Research Pharmacologist,  VA Medical Center, Sepulveda, CA (Retired) 1963-65
James N Hayward, MD, Professor/Head of Neurology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (Retired) 1963-65
William O Wild, MD, Neurosurgeon, Long Beach, CA [Retired] 1964-65
Yoshi Kamikawa, MD, Professor of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, JPN 1962-63
Sabura Homma, MD, Professor/Head of Physiology, University of Chiba School of   Medicine, Japan (Emeritus) 1966
John V Wait, PhD (Deceased), Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 1972-74
William D Willis, Jr, MD, PhD, Professor of Anatomy (Head) and Physiology, University of Texas, Galveston, TX (Emeritus) 1971
George P Moore, PhD, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (Emeritus) 1974-80
Anthony Taylor, MD, Professor/Head of Physiology,  St Thomas' Hospital Medical School, University of London, GBR (Emeritus)  1974-75, 1985-86
 Uner Tan, MD, PhD, Professor/Head of Physiology (Head), Ataturk University, Erzurum, TUR 1980
Jack L Lewis, PhD, Professor of Civil Engineering/Orthopedic Surgery, University of  Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 1984
Uwe Windhorst, MD, Professor of Physiology, National Institute for Working Life, Umea, SWE 1983, 1987, 1989
Alexander A Gydikov, MD, DSc, (Deceased), Professor/Director of Biophysics,
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, BUL 1987
Ann E Atwater, PhD, Professor of Physiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (Emeritus) 1972-74
Shiroh Watanabe, MD, Professor of Physiology, Kyoran Medical School, Tokyo, JPN      (Emeritus) 1968
Judith L Smith, PhD, Vice-Provost for Undergraduate Education, University of  California-Los Angeles, CA 1976
Andon R Kossev, PhD, Professor/Director of Biophysics, Bulgarian Academy of              Sciences, Sofia, BUL 1986-87
Nicolina I Radicheva, MD, PhD, Professor of Biophysics, Bulgarian Academy of  Sciences, Sofia, BUL 1988-89
Lubomir V Gerilovsky, MD, PhD, Professor of Physiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, BUL 1988-89
Konstantin G Kostov, Biophysics Research Associate, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, BUL 1988-89
Carter Mosher, MD, Head, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Permanente Medical Group, Sacramento, CA 1969-72
Mary C Wetzel, PhD, Professor of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ  (Emeritus) 1971-74
Roger M Enoka, PhD, Professor/Head of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 1981-93
Thomas M Hamm, PhD, Staff Neurobiologist, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ 1982-85
Jennifer L McDonagh, PhD, PT, Associate Professor of Physical Therapy, Arizona School of Health Sciences, Mesa, AZ (Retired) 1992-96
George E Goslow, Jr, PhD, Professor of Anatomy, Brown University, Providence, RI (Emeritus) 1969-76
Marc D Binder, PhD, Professor of Physiology & Biophysics,  University of Washington,  Seattle, WA 1978-80
Seiichi Sasaki, DMS, Professor/Head of Physiology, Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences, JPN 1984-86
Patti Nemeth, PhD, MD, Practicing Neurologist, St Louis, MO 1984-88
Masayuki Yamashita, PhD, Professor/Head of Physiology, Nara Medical University,  JPN 1990
Natalia A Trayanova, PhD Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Tulane University,         New Orleans, LA 1987-88
Robert B Gorman, PhD, Field Clinical Engineer, Advanced Bionics, Valencia, CA            1993-1995
David Burke, MD, Professor and Vice-Dean for Research, College of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, NSW, AUS 1976-77, '87
Anders Lundberg, MD, PhD and Elzbieta Jankowska, PhD, Professors of Physiology,  University of Goteborg, Sweden (both Emeritus) 1971-72
Shigemi Mori, MD, PhD, Professor/Head of Movement Neuroscience, National Institute  for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, JPN (Emeritus) 1999
Robert J Callister, PhD, Associate Professor of Anatomy, University of Newcastle, NSW,  AUS 1999, '01, '03, '04

PRESENTATIONS
"Neural Control of Locomotion", Valley Forge, PA 1975
"Neurobiology of Vertebrate Locomotion", Stockholm, SWE 1985
"Seventh International Symposium on Motor Control", Sophia, BUL 1993
"Neural and Neuromuscular Aspects of Muscle Fatigue", Miami, FL 1994
"Neurons, Networks and Motor Behavior", Tucson, AZ 1995
"NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Sensorimotor Control", Varna, BUL  2000
"IUPS Satellite Symposium on Movement and Sensation", Cairns, QU, AUS  2001
"Higher Nervous Control of Posture and Locomotion:  Parallel and Centralized Control Mechanisms", Okazaki, JPN  2001
"Temperature - Its Measurement and Regulation in Science and Industry",
Columbus, OH 1961
"Feedback Mechanisms Controlling Neural Activity", Villahermosa, MEX 1963
"Research in Concepts of Muscle Development and the Muscle Spindle", Cleveland, OH 1970
"Control of Posture and Locomotion", Edmonton, AB, CAN, 1973
"The Motor System: Neurophysiology and Muscle Mechanisms", Bombay, IND 1974
"Understanding the Stretch Reflex", Tokyo, JPN, 1975
"Advances in Physiological Sciences, Regulatory Functions of the CNS: Principles of Motion and Organization", Budapest, HUN 1980
"Muscle Receptors and Movement", London, GBR��� 1980
"Fifth International Symposium on Motor Control", Varna, BUL 1985
"Perspectives in Motor Control", Paphos, CYP��� 1988
"The Segmental Motor System", Tucson, AZ 1989
"Current Problems of Neuromuscular Fatigue�, Amsterdam, NLD 1992
"Neural and Neuromuscular Aspects of Muscle Fatigue", Miami, FL 1994
"Eighth International Symposium on Motor Control�, Sophia, BUL 1996
"Bernstein's Traditions in Motor Control", College Park, PA��� 1996
"Mechanisms Underlying the Control of Firing in Healthy and Sick Motoneurons", Int Ctr Biocybernetics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, POL 1997
"Peripheral and Spinal mechanisms in the Control of Movement", Tucson, AZ 1998
"Ninth International Symposium on Motor Control", Varna, BUL 2000
"Sensorimotor Control", NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Varna, BUL��� 2000
"Nerve, Muscle and Beyond" Symposium, Vernon, BC, CAN  2004
"Seventh Motor Control and Human Skill Conference", Freemantle, WA, AUS  2005
"Neurophysiological Mechanisms in Locomotion",  Paris, FRA 1977
"Biomechanics VI", Copenhagen, DEN 1977
"Fourth International Symposium on Motor Control", Varna, BUL 1981
"Reflex Organization of the Spinal Cord and its Descending Control", Canberra, ACT, AUS 1983
"Segmental Control Systems in Voluntary Movements in Animals and Humans", Goteborg, SWE��� 1985
"Neural Control of Limb Movement", Seattle, WA 1986
"Afferent Control of Posture and Locomotion", Rheinfelden, CHE 1988
"Sixth International Symposium on Motor Control", Albena, BUL 1989
"Festscrift Symposium for Prof Daniel Kernell", University of Groningen, NLD  2002
"Festscrift Symposium for Profs Lena Jami and Emmanuel Pierrot-Deseilligny", Paris, FRA  2002
"Motor Control: Trends and Perspectives," Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ  2004
"Neurophysiological aspects of posture and movement", Université De La Méditerranée, Marseille, FRA  2002
"Posture and Movement", Los Angeles, CA 1978
"Motor Control: From Movement Trajectories to Neural Mechanisms", Dallas, TX 1985
"Motor Control Update: Implications for Specialty Practice", Morgantown, WV 1987, 1992
"Neural Control of Movement", American Zoological Association, Toronto, ON, CAN 1978
"Properties and Segmental Actions of Muscle Receptors: An Update", American Physiological Society, Atlanta, GA  1981
"Loaded Breathing, Load Compensation and Respiratory Sensation",  American Physiological Society, Lexington, KY 1984
"Neural Control of Locomotion", Society for Neuroscience, Houston, TX 1972
"Metabolic Effects of Hypogravity, Hypokinesis and Exercise", NASA/AIBS Seventh Annual Symposium (with American Physiological Society), San Diego, CA 1982
"The Muscle Subdivided: Defining Functional Units of Motor Control",  Winter Conference on Brain Research, Keystone, CO 1983
"What Role(s) Do Golgi Tendon Organs Play in Motor Control", Winter Conference on Brain Research, Steamboat Springs, CO 1984
"Physiological Effects of Gravity", NASA/AIBS Ninth Annual Symposium, Harpers Ferry, WV 1984
"The Many Roles of the Muscle Spindle in Motor Control", Society for Neuroscience, Anaheim, CA 1984
"Interpretation of Myoelectric Signals: Current Issues", Winter Conference on Brain Research, Vail, CO 1985
"The Neurological Client: New Perspectives in Evaluation and Treatment", Sharp Memorial Hospital, San Diego, CA 1987
"The Neurobiology of Muscle Fatigue" Fifth Annual Spring Brain Conference, Orlando, FL 1994
"The Neurobiology of Muscle Fatigue" Sixth Annual Spring Brain Conference, Sedona, AZ 1995
"Arizona Biomedical Research '94", 1st Annual Conference, Flinn Foundation Biomedical Research Enrichment Initiative, Phoenix, AZ  1994
"Arizona Biomedical Research '96", 2nd Annual Conference,  Flinn Foundation Biomedical Research Enrichment Initiative, Scottsdale, AZ  1996
"Arizona Neuroscience '96", Annual Conference, Arizona Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience, Tucson, AZ 1996
Engineering Foundation Robotics/Neurophysiology Interface 1983, '87; '89, '92
American Physical Therapy Association: New Hampton, NH 1991, '94
Commonwealth Fund - Harkness Fellows' Workshop, Tucson, AZ  1993
Human Frontiers Science Workshop: MRC Group in Sensory-Motor Neuroscience, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, CAN 1995
Ninth Biennial Conference on Motor Speech Tucson, AZ  1998
"Motor Function and the Spinal Cord": Festschrift for Prof John L Munson, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 1998
"Motor Function and the Spinal Cord": Festschrift for Dr Robert E Burke, NINDS, Bethesda, MD��� 2001
Festschrift Symposium for Prof Shigemi Mori, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, JPN �2002
Int Congr Electromography: IV, Brussells, BEL 1971
Int Congr Physiol Sci: XXV, Munich, FRG 1971; XXVI, New Delhi, IND 1974; XXVII, Paris, FRA 1977; XXVIII, Budapest, HUN 1980; XXIX, Sydney, AUS 1983; XXX, Vancouver, CAN 1986; XXXI, Helsinki, FIN 1989; XXXII, Glasgow, GBR 1993; Christchurch, NZL 2001
European Neuroscience Association: XI, Zurich, CHE 1988
Joint Meeting; American and Chinese Physiological Societies: Taipei, TWN 1990
IBRO World Congr of Neurosci: 3, Montreal, CAN 1991
American Association of Anatomists: Boston, MA 1969; Chicago, IL 1970
American College of Sports Medicine: Knoxville, TE 1974
American Physical Therapy Association: Phoenix, AZ 1980; Orlando, FL 1985
American Physiological Society: Urbana, IL 1959; Palo Alto, CA1960; Bloomington, IN 1961; Atlantic City, NJ  1961, 1966, 1969; Chicago, IL 1964; Providence, RI  1964; Los Angeles, CA  1965; Houston, TX 1966; Davis, CA 1969; San Diego 1982
Australian Physiol Pharmacol Soc: Hobart, TAS 1977
Australian Neuroscience Society: Hobart, TAS, 1999
Society for Neuroscience: Houston, TX 1972; San Diego, CA 1973, 2001; Toronto, CAN 1976; Anaheim, CA 1977, 1981, 1984; St Louis, MO 1978; Boston, MA, 1983; Dallas, TX 1985; New Orleans, LA 1987, 2000; Phoenix, AZ  1989, Los Angeles, CA 1998; Washington, DC 2005
Physical Therapy Association of Missouri, St Louis, MO (10 lectures) 1980
Physical Therapy Association of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ (6 lectures)) 1985, '90
Physical Therapy: The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH (4 lectures) 1985
Occupational Therapy Association of Arizona, Tempe, AZ (1 lecture) 1990
VII Alberta Motor Control Meeting, Calgary, AB, CAN (1 seminar) 1990
Physical Therapy Association of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV (6 lectures) 1991
Australian National University 1977, '99; John Curtin University of Technology 1991; Monash University 1977, '99, '04; Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute 1994, '97, '99, '04; University of Adelaide 1977, '99 (2); University of Melbourne 1977; University of Newcastle 1994, '97 (2), '99, '03, '04; University of New South Wales 1970, '77(3), '87(2), '91(2); University of Sydney 1977, 91, 94, '97; University of Western Australia 1977(2), '91
Academy of Sciences 1985, '89
McGill University 1978, '92; McMaster University 1995; Queen's University 1978, '86; University of Alberta 1990, '04; University of Manitoba 1989; University of Montreal 1978; University of Saskatchewan 1973
Shanghai Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences  2001
Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics 1993; Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute 1993; University of Cyprus 1993
Institute of Physiology, NAS, Prague 1996
University of Copenhagen 1985, '97 
University of Goettingen 1985, '89 (2) ; University of Freiberg 1985
College de France 1977; CNRS-Marseille 2002
Chinese University of Hong Kong 1991; Hong Kong Neuroscience Association 1991; Hong Kong Polytechnic University 1999 (2); University of Hong Kong, 1991, '99
Chiba University 1975, '96, '99; Kyorin University 1975; Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences 1996 (2), '99 (2); Kyoto University Medical School 1996; Kyoto University Primate Center 1975; National Center for Physiological Sciences-Okazaki 1996 (2), '99 (4); Sapporo Medical University 1999 (2); Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Neuroscience, 1996; University of Nagoya 1975; University of Osaka, 1975, '96; University of Tsukaba 1996; Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 1996
Kuwait University, 1995
Otago University, 1987; University of Auckland, 1987
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Lisbon 1991
National University of Singapore 1990, '91
Goteborg University, 1971, '77, '97; Karolinska Institute, 1971, '77, '85, '97; University of Lund, 1971; University of Umea 1971, '97 (3); Uppsala University, 1971
University of Fribourg, 1985; University of Zurich  2002 (2)
University of Amsterdam 1985
University of Birmingham, 1972; University of Bristol, 1972; Durham University, 1972; University of Edinburgh, 1972; University of Glasgow, 1972,; University of London (Queen Square), 1980; University of London (St Thomas's), 1972; University of London (Imperial College) 2002
Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ 1995, '00, '05
Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ  1963, '67, '81
Childrens' Hospital, San Francisco, CA 1986, '89
Duke University, Durham, NC 1974
Emory University, Atlanta, GA 1978, '80, '81, '91
Georgia Technical University, Atlanta, GA  2003
John B Pierce Foundation, New Haven, CT 1988
Long Beach Veteran's Hospital, Long Beach, CA 1961-65
Loyola University, Chicago, IL 1966, '69
Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 1989
Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA 1975, '90
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 1964
National Institutes of Health (NINCDS), Bethesda, MD 1967, '73
Neurological Sciences Institute, Portland, OR 1978, '87 (2), '06
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 1970-Pres
Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 1981, "86
Palo Alto Veterans Hospital, Palo Alto 1982
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 1965
State University of New York, Stoney Brook, NY 1998
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 1968-Pres
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 1986 (2)
University of California-Berkeley, CA 1963, '86
University of California-Davis, CA  1964-67
University of California-Los Angeles, CA  1961-65, '72, '82, '86
University of California-San Francisco, CA  1963
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 1997(2)
University of Delaware, Newark, DE  2001 (3)
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 1978
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 1978, '81
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 1991
University of Illinois-Chicago, IL 1966
University of Illinois-Champaign/Urbana, IL 1989
University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN (2)  2001
University of Nebraska School of Medicine, Omaha, NE 1990
University of Oregon Health Sciences Center, Portland, OR 1978
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 1985, '87
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 1975
University of Texas, Austin, TX 1980
University of Texas Health Sciences Center- Dallas, TX 1981, '84
University of Texas Health Sciences Center-Houston, TX 1978
University of Texas Health Sciences Center-San Antonio, TX 1979, '80
University of Washington, Seattle, WA 1980, '84, 91 (2), 96
University of West Virginia, Morgantown, WV� 1985 (2)
Washington University, St Louis 1976, 1981, 1989
Department of Pharmacology, UA College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ 1991 
Biology Honors Club, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 1991
Faculty, University of Manitoba School of Medicine, Winnipeg, MB, CAN 1989
Faculty, University of Nebraska Health Sciences Center, Omaha, NE 1990
Faculty, University of Hawaii School of Medicine, Honolulu, HI 1991
Faculty, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 1991
Faculty, National University of Singapore School of Medicine, SGP 1991
General faculty, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ  1991
UA Graduate Program in Physiological Science, Tucson, AZ  1993
Flinn Foundation, UA Meeting, Tucson, AZ 1992
Department of Radiology, UA College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ 1992
Research Council, UA College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ 1992
Planning Group, University Heart Center, Tucson, AZ 1992
Program on New Frontiers in Health Care - An international investment group, UA College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ 1991
AHSC Advisory Board, UA College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ 1992
Century II Development Directors, UA Foundation, Tucson, AZ 1992
The Tucson 30, Tucson, AZ 1992
Yuma friends of the AHSC, Yuma, AZ 1992
The Rotary Club of Tucson, Tucson, AZ 1992
Selected members of Arizona legislature, Homecoming weekend, Tucson, AZ 1992
Second Annual Land and People Conference, UA College of Agriculture, Tucson, AZ  1993
External Advisory Board-UANCNCD, UA, Tucson, AZ  1993
Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus    1993
Seminar series for government and business leaders, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 1993
 Proposal writing workshop, Arizona Disease Control Research Commission, UA College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ 1992
Phoenix Major Gifts Committee, UA Foundation, Phoenix, AZ 1994
Tucson Major Gifts Committee, UA Foundation, Tucson, AZ 1994
Department of Radiology, UA College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ 1994
Flowing Wells academic decathlon team, Tucson, AZ 1995

Short Biosketch

Douglas G. Stuart, PhD
Education
Diploma in Physical Education: Sydney Teachers' College, Australia 1950
BS/MA: Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 1955/1956
PhD: University of California-Los Angeles, CA 1961
Training and Special Fellowships
USPHS Neuroscience Training Fellowship (Predoctoral), University of California-Los Angeles 1958-61
Bank of America Giannini Foundation Postdoctoral Medical Research Fellowship, University of California-Los Angeles 1961-63
USPHS Special Research Fellowship, University of Goteborg, Sweden 1971-72
Guggenheim Fellowship, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 1976-77
Appointments
High School Instructor, Sydney, Australia
University of California-Los Angeles: Assistant Professor of Physiology In-Residence 1963-65
University of California-Davis: Associate Professor of Physiological Sciences 1965-67
University of Arizona Department of Physiology:  Associate Professor 1967-70; Professor 1970-2002;  Departtment Head 1989-91
University of Arizona College of Medicine:  Acting Head, Department of Anatomy 1984-86; Associate Dean for Research 1991-1996
University of Arizona: Regents' Professor 1990-2002; Regents' Professor Emeritus of Physiology 2002-present

Dr. Douglas Stuart is a Regents'  Professor Emeritus of Physiology at the University of Arizona (UA).  He was a founding member of the College of Medicine, joining the UA  as an Associate Professor in 1967, and advancing to Professor in 1970, and Regents' Professor in 1990.  Stuart has been central to the development of university and statewide neuroscience programs.  He was the founder, former director (1986-2002), and now the archivist (2002-present) of a statewide predoctoral and postdoctoral interdisciplinary program in movement neuroscience.  This program has strengthened ties between the physical- and life sciences, and between the Barrow Neurological Institute (Phoenix, AZ), Arizona State University (ASU, Tempe, AZ), Northern Arizona University (NAU, Flagstaff, AZ) and the UA.  He has also been a regular yearly instructor at NAU since 1991 (biology, exercise-science, and physical therapy students) and has taught intermittently at ASU since 1993 (undergraduate and graduate bioengineering students).  Over the years, he has organized statewide and international conferences on interdisciplinary neuroscience, and statewide workshops in selected areas of medical and biological engineering.  For many years, he was also active in Arizona's various statewide networking strategies for economic development, particularly in high-technology areas that pertain to bioindustry.
    Several of Stuart's former trainees now hold professorships and/or headships at leading research universities and institutes in the USA and abroad (e.g., Cyprus Neuroscience Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus; Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences, Ibaraki, Japan; Institute of Biophysics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sophia, Bulgaria; Nara Medical University, Yagi, Japan; University of Chicago, IL, USA; University of Washington, Seattle, WA; McGill University, Montreal, Canada; University College, London, UK).� His research and research training activities were continually funded by the National Institutes of Health for the period 1964-2002.� He has held the Senator Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award (1984-91) and in 1976-77 was selected as a Guggenheim Fellow.  He has over 120 full-length experimental papers published in refereed scientific journals, and has authored 85 chapters, reviews and symposium volumes.  Most of his publications have been concerned with the neural control of movement.  In recent years, he has focused his research efforts on the fundamental properties of spinal neurons, overviews on the neurobiology of motor control, and the history of movement neuroscience.

Full Biosketch

Stuart, a naturalized (1961) US citizen, is a fourth-generation Australian of Scottish-N Irish descent.  He was born (1931) in Casino (population then 5, 000), and raised in Lismore (then 13, 000), rural towns of the far north coastal region of the state of New South Wales (NSW), about 600 miles north of Sydney. His father, Gordon (1900-33), was the Gundarimba Shire Clerk (USA Equivalent, County Manager) for a then ~60 X 40 mile area that extended south-southeast of Lismore.  His early-widowed mother, Martha (1901-1998), a 1922 graduate of Sydney Teachers' College (now a unit of the University of Sydney), was a grade school teacher and, later, a school principal.  His elder brother, Ian (1929-pres.; BS/MS, Univ Sydney, 1951/53; MS, Cambridge Univ, UK, 1957) is a retired applied mathematician, formerly with an Australian federal research organization (CSIRO Wool Research Division) for the period 1948-1990.

    Stuart graduated from Lismore High School in 1947.  Next, he graduated in 1950 (at the age of barely 19 years) from Sydney Teachers' College with a 3-year diploma in physical education.  He then taught physical education, sports, folk dancing, and dramatics at Hurlstone Agricultural High School (a state-supported boarding school for 12-18 yr-old boys on the outskirts of Sydney) for 3 years (1951-1953).  In 1953, one of his play productions with 15/16 year-old boys won a citywide competition (Stuart's 1-act version of Maxwell Anderson's [1935] "Winterset").

    Stuart was a track-and-field athlete (high jumper), and a member of the Australian team for the British Commonwealth Games (Auckland, New Zealand, 1950; Vancouver, Canada, 1954).  He came to Michigan State University (MSU, E. Lansing, MI) on a track scholarship in 1954 to complete his BS (1955) and MS (1956) in physical education with an emphasis on mammalian physiology and the physiology of exercise.  It was at MSU that Stuart developed his interest and expertise in academe (including exposure to experimental neuroscience; his first venture involved testing the effects of fatigue on human reaction time); blossomed in public speaking (MSU sent him state-wide to promulgate interest in its foreign student program) and leadership (he co-ran a dormitory of 500 undergraduate and graduate students); met and subsequently married (1957) an American undergraduate (see below); and, elected to forgo a subsequent foreign service/political career in Australia.  Rather, with the guidance of an outstanding MSU teacher and mentor, the late Professor W. Duane Collings, he opted to pursue a PhD in physiology at UCLA, where he began his studies in January, 1957.  Immediately prior, however, he returned briefly to Australia where, after failing to make the Australian track team, he designed, in less than 10 weeks, the scoreboards used for over a dozen sports (e.g., basketball, boxing, gymnastics, swimming) at the Olympic Games in Melbourne in November, 1956.

    Stuart relished graduate school at UCLA (1957-1961) where he was strongly influenced by leading neuroscientists.  While a graduate student, three of his UCLA professors were elected to the National Academy of Sciences: Theodore Bullock (1915-2005) for invertebrate neurobiology; Horace Magoun (1907-1991) for neuroanatomy and the reticular activating system; Donald Lindsley (1908-2003) for physiological neuropsychology.  Shortly thereafter, Thomas Sawyer (1915-2006) was also elected for neuroendocrinology.  Stuart's major professor was Allan Hemingway (1902-1972), a distinguished physicist/physiologist who was the first to record extracellularly from mammalian hypothalamic cells.  Other of his UCLA professors included: Bernard Abbott (1920-2006), an AV Hill-trained muscle biologist; Earl Eldred, a Ragnar Granit-trained muscle spindle neurobiologist; John Green (1917-1964), the first to describe (with Geoffrey Harris, 1913-1971) the hypophysial-portal circulation; Wilfred Mommaerts (1917-1994), an Albert Szent Gyorgyi-trained muscle biologist; Arnold Scheibel, a Golgi-staining neuroanatomist; and, Fritiof Sjostrand, a pioneering Swedish-trained electron microscopist.  Stuart subsequently worked with Eldred, first as a postdoctoral fellow (1961-63), and subsequently as an assistant research professor (1963-65).  As a predoctoral trainee supported by Magoun's NIH-supported mental health training program, Stuart developed his life-long interest in interdisciplinary neuroscience, and the advantages of exposing pre- and postdoctoral trainees to the very best of international science, both intellectually and socially.  Magoun and Hemingway insured that innumerable leading US and foreign neuroscientists worked and/or visited UCLA where they had substantial scientific and social interactions with the pre- and postdoctoral trainees.  For example, for his PhD research, Stuart had the good fortune to work with Yojira Kawamura, a neurosurgeon who at that time was the youngest (at 38 yrs of age) full professor of physiology in Japan (Osaka University Dental School).  Kawamura had just published the world's first textbook of oral physiology and neurophysiology, thereby acquiring the Magoun-endowed title of "the Sherrington of the mouth".  Kawamura went on to train over 40 current department heads of clinical dentistry, neuroscience, and physiology in Japan's twenty schools of dentistry.  For this effort, together with his scientific accomplishments, Kawamura received an award from the Emperor of Japan and similar awards from many foreign countries.
 
    In his academically supportive UCLA environment, Stuart advanced rapidly as an experimentalist.  From his hypothalamus/temperature-regulation predoctoral experiments (using brain stimulation and lesions in anesthetized cats), there resulted 7 refereed manuscripts in leading journals. Fourteen refereed manuscripts followed his four postdoctoral years of experimentation in his own UCLA-supported laboratory at the Long Beach Veterans' Administration Hospital.  This work included studies on the extracellularly-recorded firing patterns of cat hypothalamic cells, the genesis of various forms of tremor in humans, and reflex testing in spinal-cord-injury patients.  Throughout this 1961-1965 epoch, it was Magoun's custom to lunch on Thursdays with Stuart and other young neuroscientists, for discussion of wide-ranging neuroscience issues and their history.  Stuart was awarded his first NIH RO1 grant at UCLA in 1964.  Interestingly, this grant, with several name and emphasis changes, was funded for 38 years (1964-2002).
 
    On the basis of his demonstrated independence and flair for collaborative research Stuart became an associate professor of physiological sciences with tenure at UC-Davis in May 1965, just 4 years after being awarded his PhD.  At UC-Davis, Stuart had an extremely heavy teaching load with veterinary and graduate students.  Nonetheless, he developed a sophisticated electrophysiological laboratory there for spinal cord research with the assistance of a young electronics engineer, Robert Reinking, who remained with Stuart for 36 years before becoming a senior research engineer with the UA's Applied Mathematics Program.  It was at UC-Davis that they, together with Sabura Homma and Koichi Ishikawa (Univ Chiba, JPN) first recorded intracellularly from mammalian spinal motoneurons.  The Australian Nobel Laureate, Sir John Eccles (1901-1997), visited Stuart at UC-Davis in 1966, and subsequently incorporated Stuart and Reinking's then-unique, electromagnetic, servo-controlled muscle stretching apparatus into his own new laboratory set-up at the American Medical Association's short-lived Institute for Biomedical Research in Chicago, IL.  Eccles felt that Stuart had insufficient training in the nuances of spinal cord neurobiology (particularly those introduced by Sherrington and refined subsequently by his trainees, including Eccles), so he personally arranged for him to work with Anders Lundberg in SWE (see below).  Eccles and Stuart remained close friends thereafter, with Eccles spending many hours describing to Stuart his perception of the history and strategy of neurophysiology and, in particular, the impact of Charles Sherrington (1856-1952) impact on the field.

    At UC-Davis, Stuart found time for a type of university service that became a feature of his subsequent career: the pioneering of new multidisciplinary academic ventures.  For example, he served on the first committees at UC-Davis for the establishment of: 1) an inter-college PhD program in physiology; 2) a university-wide program in biomedical engineering; and 3) a university-wide strategy for the incorporation of computers into research.  For his efforts, UC-Davis rewarded Stuart with a double-step promotion to step III associate professor, barely two years after his arrival. 

    Stuart remained at UC-Davis for but 2 years, however.  To aid the respiratory health of one of his children (then an 8-yr-old), it was necessary for the family to move to a drier climate.  Most fortuitously, a position was available in a new medical college at The University of Arizona (UA) where Stuart began work in August 1967, as an associate professor of physiology.

    At the UA, Stuart advanced to Professor in 1970, and Regents' Professor in 1990.  His administrative duties have included Acting Department Head of Anatomy (1984-86) and Physiology (1974-5, 1987-8), Department Head of Physiology (1988-91), and Associate Dean for Research in the College of Medicine (1991-1996).  He became a Regents' Professor Emeritus of Physiology on July 01, 2002.

    In their UA teaching, Stuart and Reinking were the first in the world (Spring semester, 1968) to have all first-year medical students undertake intracellular recording in nerve cells (using the abdominal ganglion of Aplysia Californica) and to chronically implant electrodes into cat brains for subsequent stimulation of the awake preparation.  (They had first undertaken the latter experiment with veterinary medicine students at UC-Davis in 1965-66).  Since 1968, Stuart has taught virtually all aspects of cellular and systems neuroscience to a wide variety of constituencies (e.g., upper and lower division undergraduates; graduate students in engineering and the life sciences; professional students in medicine, occupational and physical therapy; clinical residents in neurology, neurosurgery, and orthopedics; teachers of special education; members of the lay public).  In addition to his substantial UA teaching, Stuart is the only academician in the State university system that had regular teaching duties statewide.  He has been a yearly instructor at Northern Arizona University (NAU, Flagstaff) since 1991 (biology and exercise-science students, 1991-2000; physical therapy students, 2001-present) and taught at Arizona State University (ASU, Tempe) in 1993-1998 (graduate bioengineering, biology, and exercise-science students).

    In 1970-71, Stuart (by then a full professor) had the opportunity to work at the University of Göteborg, Göteborg, SWE with Anders Lundberg and Elzbieta Jankowska, who, at that time, were clearly the world's leading workers in the field of spinal-cord neurobiology.  As predicted by Eccles, Stuart was able to return from Göteborg to the UA with a far-more-complete armamentarium of spinal-cord techniques.  Even more important was Lundberg's generous allotment of time (2-3 hrs. every Saturday morning for 6 months) to review the complete history of motor control science, and its prospects and possibilities.

    A few years later (1977), Stuart undertook 6 months of microneurographic, clinical neurophysiological research with David Burke, Department of Neurology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, AUS.  This department was headed at that time by James Lance, with whom Stuart had once shared an interest in the genesis of various normal and abnormal tremor.  With Burke and Lance, Stuart honed his experience in the optimization of the environment for interactions between fundamental and applied (clinical) neuroscientists.  Burke (now Professor and Director of Research and Development, College of Health Sciences, Univ Sydney) had just returned from an intensive 2-year experience with Karl-Erik Hagbarth (1926-2005) in Uppsala, Sweden, and Stuart helped him re-begin his microneurography research in his then de novo Australian laboratory that subsequently became world-renowned.

    Stuart has over 120 full-length publications in refereed scientific journals, and 85 chapters, reviews, and symposium volumes.  The main themes of his body of work on the segmental motor apparatus include: 1) the arrangement and properties of spinal motoneurons and interneurons, muscle receptors and motor units, and their various interactions; 2) nature and effects of locomotor movements on muscle receptors and motor unit function; 3) neurobiology of muscle fatigue; 4) mechanisms underlying the repetitive discharge of motoneurons and interneurons in the generalized vertebrate spinal cord; and 5) historical aspects of movement neuroscience. Throughout their collaborative experimental career, Stuart and Reinking developed several new, relatively straightforward data recording and processing techniques, which they have shared with their colleagues on a worldwide basis.  Among these, the best-known recent ones involve the use of personal computers in neurophysiological research, as developed in collaboration with Yiannakis Laouris (Cyprus), and Michael Nordstrom and Robert Gorman (Australia).

    Stuart's reviews, symposium volumes, and research monographs have had a major impact on the field of segmental motor control.  In these contributions, Stuart and his co-authors have challenged themselves and their peers to address key unresolved issues, and employed a "user-friendly" style to the benefit of pre- and postdoctoral trainees, the next generation of motor-control neuroscientists.  Among these contributions, the best-known are his: 1) reviews on the need to effect a stronger interface between neurophysiology and biomechanics (with then-UA colleagues, Roger Enoka and Ziaul Hasan) and to address as-yet-unexplored aspects of the proprioceptive contribution to the control of movement (with Hasan); and 2) a research monograph (with Enoka; Simon Gandevia, Univ New South Wales, Sydney, AUS; Alan McComas, McMaster Univ, Hamilton, CAN; Christine Thomas, Univ Miami, FL) on the neurobiology of muscle fatigue which was dedicated to the research contributions of Brenda Bigland-Ritchie (New Haven, CT).  This latter effort was compiled electronically in Stuart's UA laboratory, and required the dedicated editorial efforts of his long-time (since 1979) research assistant, Patricia Pierce. 

    With Sten Grillner (Univ Stockholm, Sweden) and Paul Stein (Washington Univ, St. Louis, MO), Stuart has made a truly exceptional service contribution to the study of locomotion, and the need therein to incorporate findings made on invertebrates, non-mammalian vertebrates, mammalian tetrapods, non-human primates, and humans.  (It was Stuart who coined the term, "interphyletic awareness").  They were co-organizers of three international conferences that brought together workers on these various species; all followed by widely read symposium volumes.  The local organizers for these conferences were: Richard Herman (also conference chair; now with the Good Samaritan Medical Ctr, Phoenix, AZ) for the Valley Forge, PA meeting in 1975; Grillner (also conference chair) for the Stockholm, SWE meeting in 1985; and, Stuart for the UA meeting in 1995 ( conference chair, Stein; co-organizer, Allen Selverston, UC-San Diego, CA).  The 1986 volume focused on a comparative approach toward vertebrate motor systems, whereas the 1976 and 1997 volumes had a broader perspective, with comparative emphases on both invertebrate and vertebrate systems.  The three volumes share common concepts: neuronal networks generate motor behavior, and comparisons of model systems distributed throughout the animal kingdom provide insights into general principles of motor control.  More recently, Stuart has co-edited two further symposium volumes: one with Gandevia and Uwe Proske (Monash Univ, Melbourne, Australia) on sensorimotor control in movement and posture (2002), and the other with Shigemi Mori (National Instit Physiol Sci, Okazaki, JPN) and Mario Wiesendanger (Univs Berne/Fribourg, CHE) on brain mechanisms for the integration of posture and movement (2004).

    Stuart had studied the work of the Moscow Motor Control School (Victor Gurfinkel, Maurice Shik, Grigori Orlovsky, Yuri Arshavsky, etc) prior to meeting Gurfinkel and Shik in person in Munich, GER in 1971.  Stuart and Lundberg discussed their contributions, and those of Gurfinkel's mentor, Nicolai Bernstein (1896-1966), during their 1971-72 interactions.  The 1975, 1985 and 1995 locomotion symposiums, and subsequent symposium volumes emphasized these Russians' work, as did the reviews of Stuart in 1972 (with Rebecca Gerlach and Carter Mosher), 1976 (with Mary Wetzel), and 1998 (with Jennifer McDonagh).  The international motor control community has gained much from the efforts of Grillner, Herman, Selverston, Stein, and Stuart to give full credit to this remarkable group of Russian workers, who labored so effectively under the most difficult and taxing of socioeconomic and political conditions.

    Another major international scientific service of Stuart involves the Bulgarian International Symposium on Motor Control.  This symposium has been held 9 times since 1969, with the most recent in 2004.  Its main purpose is to foster collegiality, cooperation, and scientific interactions among the international motor control community, including the means for young Eastern European and Soviet faculty and trainees to have close, person-to-person contact with leading investigators from the West.  Stuart attended these meetings from 1981 to 2000, and made 4 major contributions to the continued success of the venture: 1) He secured US Academy of Science funds to lead a 9-person delegation of leading US workers to the 1985 symposium (Emilio Bizzi, MIT, Boston, MA; Dudley Childress, Northwestern Univ, Chicago, IL; Thomas Hamm, Barrow Neurological Institute [BNI], Phoenix, AZ; Richard Herman, Good Samaritan Hospital, Phoenix, AZ; John Hollerbach, then with MIT, Boston, MA; Gerald Loeb, then with NIH, Bethesda, MD; Lewis Nashner, then with NSI, Portland, OR: Andras Pellionisz, then with New York Univ, New York, NY); 2) He secured an NSF award to undertake a 6-person exchange (1986-1989) of motor control scientists between the UA/BNI and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences ; 3) He was a member of the 4/5-person international advisory commission for the symposium for the period 1985-2000; and 4) In an extraordinarily time-consuming effort, he had the 1993 symposium expanded into a volume that was edited and compiled in his own laboratory, again working with Pierce, but in addition, soliciting the editorial help of the entire UA/BNI motor control group and many extramural peers.  The result was a volume in which all of the Eastern Bloc authors' contributions (63/94 chaps.) were presented in polished English such as to optimize their subsequent interactive possibilities with their Western colleagues.  This emphasis on helping his foreign colleagues with their usage of English was also a feature of the Japanese chapters in the 2004 volume he co-edited with Mori and Wiesendanger.  Stuart's most recent contribution to international neuroscience is his co-editing (with Michael Zigmond, Univ Pittsburgh and Paticia Pierce) of a special 2006 issue of Progress in Neurobiology which is comprised of 10 chapters on the contributions of Eccles to contemporary neuroscience, including a chapter by Stuart and Pierce on Eccles' academic lineage: who trained him, whom he then trained and with whom he collaborated, and the subsequent impact of his trainees and collaborators on neuroscience and other areas.

    Stuart has been an outspoken and forceful member of key UA committees for improving undergraduate and graduate education (e.g., Graduate Education and Research Board; President's Task Force on Undergraduate Education), recruitment of key administrators (e.g., Provost; Deans of Agriculture, Engineering, Medicine, Nursing). Even more importantly, he has been an unusually effective strategist in devising the means whereby large sums of State money (indeed millions of dollars) have been spent to establish two internationally recognized main campus neuroscience units: the Division of Neurobiology, which focuses on invertebrate studies; and, the Division of Neural Systems, Memory and Aging, which has ties to cognitive science and psychology.  (Stuart's role was primary for the former unit, and secondary, but critical, for the latter). Similarly, Stuart has been a driving force in the development of university- and statewide neuroscience programs.  He was a co-founder and co-director (1986-2002; with James Bloedel, BNI; now with Iowa State University) of the Arizona Movement Neuroscience Group, which held an NIH-funded (1987-2003) pre- and postdoctoral program in interdisciplinary motor control neurobiology that has strengthened ties between the physical- and life sciences, and between the BNI, ASU, NAU, and the UA.  Between 1987 and 2003, this program (with a training faculty that progressively increased to 33) mentored over 100 predoctoral and 120 postdoctoral trainees.  Currently, Stuart is the Archivist of this program, and maintains contact with its completed trainees.  In 1994, Stuart organized a statewide conference on interdisciplinary fundamental biomedical science, and a series of 11 statewide workshops in selected areas of medical and biological engineering.  Each of these efforts has had far-ranging effects throughout the Arizona State University System.  He was also active (1990-1996) in Arizona's various statewide networking strategies for economic development, particularly in high-technology areas that pertain to bioindustry (e.g., he was a founding board member and the first secretary-treasurer of the UA Science and Technology Park). 

    Stuart's neuroscience accomplishments have made him an international figure in movement neuroscience, not only for his research and research-training contributions, but also for his promulgation of international co-operation and collegiality.  For example, he has been a member of the US National Committee (chair, 1989-1992) and is currently a member of the 4-person Motor Control Commission (Chair, Sten Grillner), both for the International Union of Physiological Sciences.  Since the early 1970s, Stuart has undertaken a substantial amount of N. American and international reviewing of physiology and neuroscience programs.  As a committed internationalist, he has also played a supportive role in the careers of innumerable young motor control scientists in N. America and abroad.  He has presented his ideas on motor control in seminars at 68 institutions in 19 foreign countries, and at over 40 institutions in the USA.

    Among Stuart's former trainees and younger collaborators, one is now an institute director (Yiannakis Laouris, Cyprus Neurosci and Technol Inst, Nicosia, Cyprus), and several hold professorships at leading research universities in the USA and abroad: Anne Atwater, UA (emeritus); Marc Binder, Univ Washington, Seattle, WA; Kenneth Campbell, Washington State Univ, Pullman, WA; Roger Enoka, Univ Colorado, Boulder (Head, Dept Integrative Physiology), CO; Jayne Garland, Univ. Western Ontario, CAN (Head, Dept Physical Therapy); Michael Joyner, Mayo Medical School, Rochester, MN; George Goslow, Brown Univ, Providence, RI (retired); Ziaul Hasan, Univ Illinois-Chicago Circle, IL; Seichi Sasaki, Ibaraki Univ Health Sciences, Ibaraki, JPN (Head, Dept. Physiology); John Stephens, University College, London, GBR; Douglas Watt, McGill Univ., Montreal, CAN; Mary Wetzel, UA (emeritus); Masao Yamashita, Nara Medical University, Yagi, JPN (Head, Dept Physiology); and, Chun-Su Yuan, Univ Chicago, IL.  Others are associate professors: Barry Botterman, Univ Texas Health Sci Ctr, Dallas, TX; Robert Callister, Univ Newcastle, AUS; William Cameron, Oregon Health & Sciences Univ, Portland, OR; Thomas Hamm, UA (primary appointment at the BNI); Koichi Ishikawa, Univ Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; Jennifer McDonagh, Arizona Sch Health Sci, Mesa, AZ (retired); Michael Nordstrom, Univ Adelaide, AUS (Head, Div Physiology); and, Edward Stauffer, Univ. Minnesota-Duluth, MN.  Still others are university administrators, assistant professors, lecturers, and research fellows, all with valuable research and/or teaching emphases: Leslie Bevan, Oregon Health & Sciences Univ, Portland, OR (retired); George Hornby, Univ Illinois-Chicago Circle, IL; Lucinda Rankin, UA; Grant Robinson, Duke Univ, Durham, NC; and Sharyn Vanden Noven, McGill Univ. Montreal, CAN and Hong Kong Polytechnical Univ, HKG (deceased).  Former trainees in the private sector include: Edward Gilliam, neurology/neurosurgery nurse practitioner, Tucson, AZ; Debra Gordon, biotechnology patent law attorney, Portland, OR; Robert Gorman, field engineer for biomedical devices, Valencia, CA; Walther Koehler, neurologist, Bonn, GER; Carter Mosher, neurologist, Sacramento, CA; William Nemeth, medical administration (former orthopedic surgeon), Austin TX; Kenneth Ott, neurosurgeon, San Diego, CA; Dennis Roscoe, Co-director, MPACS-LLC (a biomedical data processing company), Madison, WI; and, John Spielmann, anesthesiologist, Buffalo, MN. 

    Stuart has held: an NIH Special Research Fellowship (1971-1972) for spinal cord studies with Professors Anders Lundberg and Elzbieta Jankowska at Göteborg Univ, SWE; a Guggenheim Fellowship (1976-77) for clinical neurophysiology studies with Dr. David Burke (now at Sydney Univ, AUS) at the Univ New South Wales, Sydney, AUS; and, a Senator Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award (1984-91) for his research on the segmental motor system.  In 1995, Stuart was the recipient of the John Marley Leadership Award from the Research Section of the American Physical Therapy Association for his fostering of movement neuroscience in this profession.  In 1998, he received special recognition from the University of Arizona for "outstanding contributions in teaching, research, and service in neuroscience."  In 2002, the University honored him further with a named fellowship in perpetuity, "The Douglas G. Stuart Predoctoral Fellowship in Movement Neuroscience."  He has been a member of an NIH Study Section (Applied Physiology and Biomedical Engineering; 1974-78), the Scientific Advisory Committee, Muscular Dystrophy Association (1987-89), and the editorial boards of the American Journal of Physical Medicine (1975-87), the Journal of Neurophysiology (1979-84), and Experimental Neurology  (1982-87).  Since the early 1970s, he has refereed worldwide innumerable journal articles and promotion and research applications.  In 1998, an international symposium was held in his honor at the University of Arizona, with a subsequent 1999 volume published in the Elsevier Progress in Brain Research series (no. 123; M.D. Binder, editor).  In January, 2007, the Society for Integrative and Comparative Physiology will hold a Phoenix, AZ international symposium in Stuart's honor entitled "Recent Developments in Neurobiology".  The speakers will include Keir Pearson and Arthur Prochazka (Univ Alberta, Edmonton, CAN), Roger Enoka (Univ Colarado, Boulder, CO), Richard Levine (UA), Richard Satterlie (Univ North Carolina-Wilmington, NC) and Stuart.

`    Finally, it is appropriate to comment on Stuart's family life which, together with the laboratory efforts of Reinking and Pierce, has been the mainstay of his academic endeavors.  Stuart's wife, Jean (nee Rassbach) was born (1935) and raised (until 15) in Philadelphia, PA.  Her mother, Evelyn (1901-92) was a native of Gettysburg, PA, and a home economics graduate (1924) of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (Pittsburgh, PA).  Her father, Phillip (1901-1970) was raised in Washington, DC, before graduating from the same institution as his future wife (1925; BS in metallurgical engineering).  He subsequently had a distinguished career in the steel industry: first (1925-50) with Midvale Steel (Philadelphia, PA), where he rose to general manager and developed a US patent on low-chromium steel; and subsequently, with Union Carbide (1951-70) where he became Director of the Metals Division, and provided substantial service to the rebuilding of the Japanese steel industry.  Jean Rassbach Stuart is a 1953 graduate of New Trier High School, Winnetka, IL, Michigan State University (BA in child guidance and development, 1957) and the UA (MA in educational counseling, 1972; certificate in gerontology counseling, 1990).  For 24 years, she was a teacher and guidance counselor in CA (Los Angeles, 1957-58; Davis, 1965-67) and AZ (Pima County Guidance Project, 1972-78; Tucson Unified School District I, 1978-1993).  The Stuarts have 4 children with intriguingly diverse occupations: Michael (1957-; married to Deborah Murphy, an office manager; 1 child) is a former stuntman, and now horse-trainer, wrangler and stunt coordinator in the Los Angeles TV/movie industry (TV credits include stunt co-ordination of The Young Riders; movie credits include All the Pretty Horses, Wyatt Earp, Sea Biscuit); Kathryn (1959-; married to Thomas Lohse, a Tucson businessman; 3 children) is a UA graduate (BA, 1980; MA, 1998) and a bilingual (English/Spanish) grade school teacher with Tucson Unified School District I; Daniel (1961-; married to Nuria Morgado from Barcelona, Spain and an Assistant Professor of Spanish Literature, State University of New York-Staten Island; 1 child), is a song writer and band leader (Green on Red) and, in addition, a New York-based movie-script writer and columnist for a web publication (Brink.com); and, Cynthia (1963-; married to Michael Sadowsky, a Tucson businessman; 2 children) is a pre-school director/teacher and inventor (US patent for sunglasses for growing babies).  The Stuarts have a particularly active family life in Tucson with their 2 daughters and their spouses, and 5 of their 7 grandchildren.

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Graduate Program Affiliations

Neuroscience

Physiological Sciences

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Publications

Stuart DG. Oct 2007. Reflections on integrative and comparative movement neuroscience. Integr Comp Biol, 4:482-504

Nordstrom MA, Gorman RB, Laouris Y, Spielmann JM, Stuart DG. Feb 2007. Does motoneuron adaptation contribute to muscle fatigue?. Muscle Nerve, 35:135-158

Stauffer EK, McDonagh JC, Hornby TG, Reinking RM, Stuart DG.. Feb 2007. Historical reflections on the afterhyperpolarization-firing rate relation of vertebrate spinal neurons. J Comp Physiol A, 193:145-158

Stuart DG, Pierce PA. Jun 2006. The academic lineage of Sir John Carew Eccles (1903-1997). Prog Neurobiol, 78:136-155

Stuart DG, Zigmond MJ (Eds.). Jun 2006. The Contributions of John Carew Eccles to Contemporary Neuroscience. Prog Neurobiol, 78:135-326

Stuart DG. Oct 2005. Integration of posture and movement: Contributions of Sherrington, Hess, and Bernstein. Hum Mov Sci, 24:621-643

Gorman RB, McDonagh JC, Hornby TG, Reinking RM, Stuart DG. Jun 2005. Measurement and nature of firing rate adaptation in turtle spinal neurons. J Comp Physiol A, 191:583-603

Callister RJ, Pierce PA, McDonagh JC, Stuart DG. Apr 2005. Slow-tonic muscle fibers and their potential innervation in the turtle, Pseudemys (Trachemys) scripta elegans. J Morphol, 264:62-74

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