Kimberly Erin Iceman

The paper investigates how hypoxia triggers gasping through neural network reconfiguration in the brainstem, showing disinhibition and coordinated activity in respiratory circuits.

This study shows that post-surgical opioid use and surgery itself impair airway protection in cats, increasing aspiration pneumonia risk.

This study investigates how acute cervical spinal cord injury affects laryngeal and swallow function in animal models, finding increased laryngeal drive and altered diaphragm activity during swallow.