Mark S. Nash, PhD, FACSM

Primary Appointment
Department of Neurological Surgery, Miller School of Medicine
Associate Professor -Tenured

The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis
Applied Physiology Research Laboratory
Principal Investigator and Director

Secondary Appointment
Department of Physical Therapy, Miller School of Medicine
Associate Professor

Affiliate Faculty, Department of Neurotec, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Education

PhD Exercise Physiology/Anatomy (1984), University of Toledo, Medical College of Ohio
MS Biology (Human Physiology) (1980), University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio
BS Biology (1976), University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio

Service
Medical Advisory Board, The Alan T. Brown Foundation, 1988-Present
Board Member, Veterans Administration Rehabilitation Research and Development Merit Grant Review Board on Geriatric Rehabilitation/Rehabilitation Health Services and Outcomes, 1999-present

Awards
Outstanding Research Paper, Annual Scientific Conference, The American Spinal Injury Association, 2005
Distinguished Alumnus Award for Professional Achievement, University of Toledo, 1996
Fellow, American College of Sports Medicine (FACSM), 1995
Co-Recipient (with R.S. Gailey, Ph.D.): International Forscheimer Prize in Prosthetics Research, 1995

Research
Spinal Cord Injuries
Metabolic Assessments
Human Biochemistry

Selected Publications
Nash, M.S.  Exercise As A Health-Promoting Activity Following Spinal Cord Injury. J Neurol Phys Ther (In Press, June 2005).

Nash, M.S.  Central Nervous System: Spinal Cord Injury. In: Exercise in Rehabilitation Medicine, W.R. Frontera, D.M. Dawson, and D.M. Slovik (Eds). Human Kinetic Publishers, Champaign, IL (2005)

Nash, M.S., J.deGroot, A. Martinez-Arizala, and A.M. Mendez. Evidence for an Exaggerated Post-Prandial Lipemia in Chronic Paraplegia.  J Spinal Cord Med. (In Press, June 2005.)

Nash, M.S., and R.M. Goldberg. Comparison of the Efficacy and Safety of
Atorvastatin Initiated at Different Starting Doses in Patients with Dyslipidemia. Evidence-Based Cardiovascular Med (In Press, June 2005.)
     
Nash, M.S., B.M. Johnson, and P.L. Jacobs. Combined Hyperlipidemia In A Patient With Tetraplegia: Ineffective Risk Reduction Following Atorvastatin Monotherapy. J Spinal Cord Med 27(5):484-7, 2004.

Nash, M.S., P.L. Jacobs, B.M. Johnson, and E. Field-Fote. Metabolic and Cardiac Responses to Robotic- Assisted Locomotion in Motor-Complete Tetraplegia. J Spinal Cord Med 27:78-82, 2004.

Nash, M.S., P.L. Jacobs, J.M. Woods, J.E. Clark, T.A. Pray, and A.E. Pumarejo. A Comparison of Two Exercise Training Techniques for Eliciting Matched Metabolic Responses in Persons with Paraplegia. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 83(2):201-9, 2002.

Nash, M.S. Cardiovascular Fitness After Spinal Cord Injuries. In: Spinal Cord Medicine, pp 637-46. V. Lin, (Ed)., Demos Publications, New York, NY, September, 2002.