Interests are in developing large scale models via collaborative efforts.
Particular interest in myocardial transport and metabolism and in the use of general purpose modeling for analyzing cardiac behavior. Experience with a wide variety of animal models and research methodologies employed to study small vessel physiology. Modeling the Transport and Metabolism of Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide and Water in a Capillary-Tissue Exchange Unit. General consultation of NSR software, computer network system, kinetic modeling andfunctional imaging. Jim Ploger Research Scientist Modeling of purine transport and metabolism, developing data analysis and real-time data acquisition programs, performing and analyzing multiple indicator dilution experiments.