Event Title
Sexual Dimorphism in Rat Vascular Function of Type I and Type II Diabetes: Role of EDRFs
Location
Room R107 in The Rotunda, School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, University of the Pacific, Stockton campus
Start Date
29-11-2016 12:00 PM
End Date
29-11-2016 1:00 PM
Description
Dr. Roshanak Rahimian, professor of physiology and pharmacology in the Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences will tell us about her work on understanding the mechanisms underlying the interaction of sex and diabetes in vasculature.
Over the past decade, diabetes and obesity have reached epidemic levels in developed countries, and has become one of the most serious and challenging health problems in the 21st century. Several studies suggest that diabetes affects male and female vascular beds differently. However, the mechanisms underlying the interaction of sex and diabetes in vasculature remain to be investigated. We have shown that diabetes impairs vasodilation in both sexes; however, females have more pronounced impairment than males when they become diabetic.
Host
Carlos Villalba-Galea
Sexual Dimorphism in Rat Vascular Function of Type I and Type II Diabetes: Role of EDRFs
Room R107 in The Rotunda, School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, University of the Pacific, Stockton campus
Dr. Roshanak Rahimian, professor of physiology and pharmacology in the Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences will tell us about her work on understanding the mechanisms underlying the interaction of sex and diabetes in vasculature.
Over the past decade, diabetes and obesity have reached epidemic levels in developed countries, and has become one of the most serious and challenging health problems in the 21st century. Several studies suggest that diabetes affects male and female vascular beds differently. However, the mechanisms underlying the interaction of sex and diabetes in vasculature remain to be investigated. We have shown that diabetes impairs vasodilation in both sexes; however, females have more pronounced impairment than males when they become diabetic.
Presenter Bio
Roshanak Rahimian, PharmD, MSc, PhD earned her doctor of pharmacy from Tehran University of Medical Sciences in Tehran, Iran in 1988 and her master of science from the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Canada in 1995. Dr. Rahimian earned her doctor of philosophy from University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada in 1998. She then completed a three-year post doctoral fellowship from the Canadian Institute of Health Research before joining the Pacific family in 2001.
Dr. Rahimian's passion for teaching is evident in everything she does. What she loves about teaching at Pacific is the student-body and the outstanding environment for active learning. It is her goal to ensure that students learn fundamental skills in her class and laboratory. Her areas of expertise are cardiovascular and endocrine physiology, pathophysiology and pharmacology.
She is a member of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET), American Physiological Society (APS) and APS Sex and Gender Interest Group. She has served as a reviewer for the American Heart Association. Her objective as a faculty member and scholar is to fully support the students while they work to achieve their goals. She serves as the Faculty Advisor for the Alpha Xi chapter of Lambda Kappa Sigma. The individual who influenced her most in her career was her late mother.
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