Professor Susan Ward Consultancy
Professor Ward has now left the University - A new lead person in this area will be appointed for the next academic year.
 Professor Susan Ward |
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Sue is Professor of Sport and Exercise Science. She is a physiologist with strong interests in the integrative aspects of stressors such as exercise and exposure to low-oxygen environments, both in health and disease. She joined the University in July 2003, to head the new School of Sport and Exercise Sciences. She runs an active research programme and is also actively involved in the undergraduate degree programme in Sport and Exercise Sciences.
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While an undergraduate at Oxford, she became particularly interested in the physiology of respiration, taking this forward in the context of exercise for her DPhil research. Her subsequent move to the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) provided an early clinical slant to her research interests. Her primary research expertise lies in the role of ventilation in regulating pH status in the body in response to the metabolic carbon dioxide and proton loads of exercise. This is still a contentious and poorly-understood issue, which has implications for exercise tolerance (or, more properly, exercise intolerance) in a range of patient populations – recognizing that exercise intolerance has an important prognostic influence on outcomes from major surgery and also mortality.
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Sue has a long-standing interest in applying her basic research to the area of clinical cardiopulmonary exercise testing, especially in chronic lung disease. Her research in this area focuses on the development of exercise-based interventional strategies for improving patient activities-of-daily-living and quality-of-life. She is actively involved in professional clinical organisations, particularly the European Respiratory Society, where she has been involved in KT and CPD activities for many years and has taken a leadership role in the production of published position statements, such as “Recommendations on the Use of Exercise Testing in Clinical Practice” (Palange, Ward et al., Eur Resp J 2007;29:185-209); and the European Respiratory Society Monograph “Clinical Exercise Testing” (eds Palange and Ward, 2007; ISBN:1904097456). These activities have brought her into active and fruitful collaborations with commercial partners, both in Europe and North America, whose primary remit is the production of automated clinical exercise-testing systems. Sue’s primary interest in Bioenterprise Leeds is therefore in Consultancy.
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