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PHCL 512 Introduction to Pharmacology	Students will learn the history of pharmacology, along with the principleas of how drugs act to produce changes within the body.  Lectures will include the anatomy of physiology of body structures, with special emphasis on the processes that govern drug absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion. Other lectures will include the processes that establish and maintain intracellular electrical charge the membrane potential, nerve implulse conduction, how excitable tissue becomes excited or inhibted, and the mechanism(s) of drug action on such tissues.  Students will learn detailed information about the autonomic nervous system and cardiovascular system, including how these systems malfunction.  Lectures will include how different drugs act to alter the function of the autonomic nervous system and the cardiovascular system.  Graduate-level requirements include presenting in class seminal papers in pharamcology plus quizzes, mid-term and final examination.
PHCL 554 Cardiovascular Pharmacology	Modern theories of mechanism of action of cardiovascular drugs, prophylaxis and therapy of cardiovascular disease.
PHCL 582 Immunopharmacology	Broad overview of the immune system, with emphasis on how chemicals affect it and the role of the immune system in chemical-induced tissue injury/allergic responses.
PHCL 596C Pharmacology Seminar)	To develop skills of students to critically read, evaluate and present scientific literature or laboratory results, especially related to medical pharmacology.  Every week, students will present and exchange scholarly information in a small group setting.
PHCL 670 Principles of Perfusion Techniques	An introduction to extracorporeal techniques through discussion of blood propelling devices, heat transfer, gas transfer, bio-materials, and perfusion pharmacology.
PHCL 671 Perfusion Technology Lab	An introduction to basic extracorporeal systems. The students will use simulated cardiopulmonary bypass to learn the assembly, use, and control of the bypass system.  Emphasis will be on catastrophe management.
PHCL 672 Perfusion Technology II	This course will provide classroom study of Perfusion technology. The areas of study will provide expanded discussion of the topics covered in PHCL 670 and PHCL 671.
PHCL 691L Perfusion Science Preceptorship	The students perform clinical perfusion under the direction of a clinical instructor.  The students will learn adult, pediatric, infant perfusion in addition heart and lung transplantation. Moreover, the students learn clinical laboratory testing and become familiar with support devices such as intra-aortic balloon pumps, left-ventricular assist devices, artificial hearts, ECMO, and blood recovery.
PHCL 696 Research Seminar	The development and exchange of scientific information in the small group setting of a laboratory meeting.
PHCL 900 Research	Individual research, not related to thesis or dissertation preparation, by graduate students
PHCL 910 Thesis	The students will perform a basic science research project including; experimental design, implementation, data acquisition, statistical analysis, and publication.  This research will support the student’s thesis research requirement.
EPID 576A Biostatistics in Public Health	This course introduces biostatistical methods and applications, and will cover descriptive statistics, probability theory, and a wide variety of inferential statistical techniques that can be used  to make practical conclusions about empirical data. Students will also be learning to use a statistical software package (STATA).
PSIO 511 Physiology	Fundamental concepts and principles in physiology relevant to the field of bioengineering and including a survey of materials necessary for an understanding of physiological principles.
MATH 509 Statistics for Research	Statistical concepts and methods applied to research in other scientific disciplines. Principles of estimation and hypothesis testing for standard one-and two-sample procedures. Correlation, linear regression. Contingency tables and analysis of variance.