Faculty
Howard H. Erickson
DVM, Kansas State
University, 1959
PhD, Veterinary Physiology, Iowa State University, 1966
Roy W. Upham Professor of Veterinary Medicine
e-mail erickson@vet.k-state.edu
Supervisor for:
Equine Exercise Physiology
Laboratory
Teaching and Research Interests:
I am the course coordinator for AP
747, Veterinary Physiology II, a 7-hour course in systemic physiology
which includes the function of the cardiovascular, respiratory,
endocrine, renal, digestive and reproductive systems of domestic animals
with emphasis on physiologic control mechanisms, interrelationships of
body systems, and criteria for evaluating animal health. The course also
includes short sections on acid-base, exercise, and behavior. I also
teach two graduate courses, AP 870, Advanced Cardiovascular Physiology,
and AP 895, Equine Exercise Physiology.
My research interests are in cardiopulmonary and exercise physiology
with a special emphasis on the horse and exercise-induced pulmonary
hemorrhage. Facilities include a high-speed equine treadmill and the
technology to measure oxygen consumption, blood pressure and other
cardiopulmonary variables during exercise.
A new research thrust is in the development of the infrastructure for
veterinary telemedicine, a system for proactive herd health management
for disease prevention from farm to market. This is an interdisciplinary
project with investigators in the Departments of Computer and
Information Sciences and Electrical and Computer Engineering in the
College of Engineering and in the Department of Anatomy and Physiology
and the Food Animal Health and Management Center in the College of
Veterinary Medicine. The goal of this project is to research and develop
the infrastructure to support wearable/remote monitoring devices that
continuously assess cattle state of health in concentrated and
distributed herds. These systems will improve the ability of the
livestock industry to react to and predict disease onset and its
epidemiological spread, whether from natural or terrorist events.