Erik Van Iterson, a doctoral candidate in the School of Kinesiology,  has been accepted to give two talks at the American Thoracic Society International Conference in Denver, CO., this spring. The co-investigators on these talks include Dr. Sarah Baker and Dr. Courtney Wheatley of the Mayo Clinic, and Dr. Wayne Morgan from the University of Arizona.

The title of these two talks are:

• “Genetic Variation in ΔF508 CFTR Influences Cardiac Power and Stroke Work in Cystic Fibrosis Patients”
• “The Capacity for Gas Transfer Within Lungs Does Not Influence the Relationship Between Oxygen Uptake and Cardiac Hemodynamics During Exercise in Cystic Fibrosis Patients”

Van Iterson is advised by under the assistant professor Eric Snyder, Ph.D., director of the Clinical Exercise Physiology Laboratory.