Andrew D'Souza

Meet Andrew D’Souza, a @WCHRIUofA postdoctoral fellow driven by personal experience to close critical gaps in women’s health research. ✨ 🔬 Read more about Andrew’s groundbreaking research and what it could mean for women living with scleroderma: wchri.org/our-impact/pos…

@AndrewDsouz is tackling breathlessness in women with scleroderma, a misunderstood and understudied condition. As a WCHRI postdoctoral fellow, his research aims to close critical knowledge gaps and improve therapies. Learn more about D’Souza’s @abwomenshealth-funded research: wchri.org/our-impact/pos…

We are excited to launch our postdoctoral fellowship profiles! Congratulations to Yasser Abuetabh, Anissa Armet, Andrew D'Souza, Amanda Lima Deluque, Gabriele Matteoli, Hidenori Moriyama, and Mirielle Pauline for receiving the award! Read more about the projects they will be working on: wchri.org/our-impact/pos… #wchripdf2025

The mMRC and CAT failed to identify many people with abnormally high exertional breathlessness assesses with #CPET, supporting the role of standardized exercise testing in the evaluation of people with #COPD. doi.org/10.1016/j.ches… @CERPLMcGill @DrJ9378 @accpchest

Excellent work by PhD student @AndrewBrotto ! Stay tuned for some exciting work to come.

Excited to share our most recent publication in @japplphysiol where we examined the impact of posture in pulmonary vascular function between endurance-trained and untrained individuals! @AndrewDsouz @mkstickland @Sophie_ECollins @seanvandiepen doi.org/10.1152/japplp…

Excited to share our latest paper in @ajpheartcirc which evaluated the impact of oral contraceptive pill use on sympathetic transduction at rest in young females! @westernuFHS @QiFu8 @IEEMPHD journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.115…

Please share: we will be hosting a first-of-its-kind Global School on Heat Adaptation in Montreal, July 21-25, 2025. We are seeking current master's and PhD students to participate in the school. Deadline to apply is December 1st. All info below.

🚨 An exciting new funded PhD position in my lab for Sep 2025: 👩‍🎓 joint PhD with @UofT & @UniMelb ♀️ 2 supervisors (@erin_howden & I) ✈️start in #toronto, end in #melbourne ❣️#womenshearthealth & lifestyle intervention 🫀cardiac ultrasound & MRI amykirkham.ca/index.php/ads/… Pls RT

Some really good researchers in @UofG_HHNS, including @Geoff_A_Power, @Millar_Lab, @Dr_Burr, & @CoralMurrant. I will 💯% be applying to join these groups. Because grad school is the best!

Impact of muscle composition on peak oxygen uptake in #HF: ready #OpenAccess on #EHJOpen! #OpenUpYourScience! @ESC_Journals @SaDeRosa78 @ProfMagnusBack @GianluSava academic.oup.com/ehjopen/articl…

🚨New paper alert! doi.org/10.1113/JP2869… Feedback from the exercising muscles not only corrects an error message during the transient phase at the onset of exercise but is also necessary for regulating ventilation and gas exchange efficiency during steady-state exercise (1/3)

Need to quantify severity of exertional breathlessness & compare to normative responses? That is, how abnormal is your patient's #breathlessness? See our review for a guide on how using #CPET or 6MWT 👉 journals.lww.com/co-supportivea… @traitsCRE @CERPLMcGill @DrJ9378 @DyspneaSociety

Here is the link to original paper: physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/JP…

Excited to share our invited editorial highlighting the recent paper from Sayegh and colleagues @AucklandUni Putting the HYPE in hypertension: peripheral chemoreflex constraint of skeletal muscle blood flow @JPhysiol @mkstickland @UAlberta_DoM physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Central α2-adrenergic mechanisms regulate human sympathetic neuronal discharge strategies | Journal of Physiology physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Awesome new work from @StephenAKlassen advancing our understanding of the mechanisms governing sympathetic neuronal discharge strategies!

New 📄 asks: Can exercise training meaningfully improve heart patients' fitness levels? @Robin_Faricier, @DanielKeir1 @IJCardio doi.org/10.1016/j.ijca…

New #ShortReport "A comparison of wavelet-based action potential detection from the NeuroAmp and the Iowa Bioengineering Nerve Traffic Analysis system" by Scott F. Thrall et al. ow.ly/3l6l50SuBf9 @FosterGlen @lauro_vianna @AndrewDsouz #ActionPotentialRecruitmentStrategies

Breathe: Different categories of interventions for increasing physical activity and exercise capacity in the COPD patient are discussed in this review: pharmacological, pulmonary rehabilitation, behavioural and web-based interventions. bit.ly/4dh2NyR

#ArticlesInPress: Effect of acute #intranasal insulin administration on muscle sympathetic nerve activity in healthy young adults Neil J. McMillan et al. ow.ly/fTa250ShWUP @FosterGlen @McMillan_Neil_ @cafnr #insulin #autonomic #sympathetic #bloodpressure