Affiliation: Mayo Clinic

Gary C. Sieck, PhD is an endowed professor and distinguished investigator in the Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering at Mayo Clinic. He served as Department Chair and Dean for Academic Affairs at Mayo. He has mentored 27 PhD students and 87 postdoctoral fellows. He was president of the American Physiological Society and president of the Association of Chairs of Departments of Physiology. He is an elected fellow of the American Physiological Society and the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering. His research focuses on motor unit physiology, specifically neural control of respiratory muscles and his research has been continuously funded by multiple grants from the NIH for more than 45 years. He has authored 475 journal articles, numerous abstracts, and many other written publications. He was editor-in-chief of the Journal of Applied Physiology and Physiology and is currently an associate editor of Comprehensive Physiology and FASEB BioAdvances.