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Schubert, Roy W., Ph.D., P.E.

Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Degrees

PhD-Biomedical Engineering-Phy. Card. Vas.: Case Western Reserve
MS-Electrical Engineering: Case Institute of Technology
BS-Electrical Engineering: Case Institute of Technology

Contact Info

Office: 301 Biomedical Engineering Complex (711 S. Vienna)
Email: schubert@.latech.edu
Phone: (318) 257-4562
Home Page: None

Areas of Specialization

• Systems physiology
• Mass transport
• Instrumentation
• Cardiovascular Physiology

Research Areas/Interests

• 1985-1987, American Heart of Louisiana, Cardia Lymphatic Occlusion in the Autoregulating Isolated Heart, sponsor for R. Fiser.
• 1983-1987, National Institute of Handicapped Research, $3,500,000, Personal Licensed Vehicle Research, Grant to Center for Rehabilitation Science and Biomedical Engineering, Research Associate and PI on 3D Driving Simulator section, $40,000 per year.
• 1983-1986, National Institutes of Health, Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, $180,000, Mechanisms of Chemoreceptor Discharge, Research Associate.
• 1979-1983, National Institutes of Health, Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, $148,000, Synergistic Study of Heart Function, Principal Investigator.
• 1980-1983, National Institutes of Health, Neurological Disease and Stroke Institute, $271,000, Alabama Stroke Center, Co-Principal Investigator.
• 1978-1984, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, State of Louisiana, $280,000, Rehabiliation Engineering Research Development and Training Center, Grant to Biomedical Engineering Department, Research Associate and Director of the Microprocessor Facility, $20,000.
• 1977-1980, National Institutes of Health, Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, $340,000, Study of Heart Function, Co-Principal Investigator, Resigned to move to Louisiana Tech University.
• 1976-1978, National Institutes of Health, Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Supplemental Grant, $52,000, Research Associate.
• 1971-1975, National Institutes of Health, Special Fellow of the Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, $95,000, Principal Investigator.
• 1964-1966, National Institutes of Health, Predoctoral Fellow, $14,000, Case Institute of Technology.

Publications

• Schubert, Roy W., W. J. Whalen and P. Nair, "Myocardial P02 distribution: relationship to coronary autoregulation", American Journal of Physiology, 234(4), H361-H370, 1976
• Fletcher, J.E. and Roy W. Schubert, "On the computation of substrate levels in perfused tissues", Math. Biosci., 62, 75-106, 1982.
• Schubert, Roy W., J.E. Fletcher, and D.D. Reneau, "A simplified model for predicting myocardial PO2 histograms", Biomedical Engineering I, Recent Developments, Pergamon Press, 197-200, 1982.
• Napper, Stan and Roy W. Schubert, "Michaelis-Menten kinetics and axial diffusion in an oxygen heart model", Biomedical Engineering I, Recent Developments, Pergamon Press, 201-204, 1982.
• Cronk, James, and Roy W. Schubert, "Michaelis-Menten Like Kinetics in the Krogh Tissue Cylinder" Oxygen Transport to Tissue, Volume VI, 499-509, 1984.
• Schubert, Roy W., J.E. Fletcher and D.D. Reneau, "An Analytical Model for Axial Diffusion in the Krogh Cylinder", Oxygen Transport to Tissue, Volume VI, 433-442, 1984.
• Fletcher, J.E. and Schubert, R.W. , "Capillary wall permeability effects in perfused capillary-tissue structures", Oxygen Transport to Tissue, Volume VI, 907-919, 1984.
• Fletcher, J.E., and Roy W. Schubert, "Axial diffusion and wall permeability effects in perfused capillary-tissue structures", Bio Systems, 153-174, 1987.
• Napper, S.N. and Roy W. Schubert "Mathematical evidence for flow induced changes in myocardial oxygen consumption" Annals of Biomedical Engineering 349-365, 1988
• Kiani, M. K., and Roy W. Schubert, "Oxygen sensitivity of recessed and unrecessed antimony pH microelectrodes" Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 541-546, 1988.
• Kinai, M. K. and Roy W. Schubert, "Letter-Oxygen sensitivity of recessed and unrecessed antimony pH electrodes", Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, 638-640, 1989
• McGoron, A., Nair,P., and Schubert, R. W., "Effects of hypoxia on the Michaelis-Menten kinetics of oxygen consumption by rat brain slices, FASEB J., 6(4), part 1, A1492, 1992.
• Schubert, Roy W., and X. Zhang, "Dependance of oxygen distribution(histograms) on transport assumptions", FASEB J., 6(4), A1518, 1992.
• Schubert, Roy W. and J.E. Fletcher, "Does Oxygen Diffuse or Disperse in Myocardial Tissue?" Annuals of Biomedical Engineering 21, Supp.1, 51, 1993.
• Schubert, Roy W. and J.E. Fletcher,"Is Myocardial Tissue Stirred? An Experimental-Theoretical Study", Microcirculatory Society 71, New Orleans, March 1993.
• Schubert, Roy W. and J.E. Fletcher, "Rethinking Oxygen Transport to Tissue" Comments on Theoretical Biology 3,1, 23-42, 1993.
• Gardner, J.D. and Schubert, R.W., "Myoglobin facilitated oxygen diffusion in the heart: A mathematical assessment.". Sourthern Biomedical Engineering Conf.. , 42-45, 1995
• McGoron, A.J., Nair,P., and Schubert, R. W., "Michaelis Menten Kinetics Model of Oxygen Consumption by Rat Brain Slices Following Hypoxia", Annuals of Biomedical Engineering, 25:3, 565-572, 1997.
• Gardner, J.D. and Schubert, R.W., "Evaluation of myoglobin function in the presence of axial diffusion". ( Oxygen Transport to Tissue XVIII), Adv Exp Med Biol.; 411: 157 169, 1997.
• Schubert, R.W. and Zhang, X., "The equivalent Krogh cylinder and axial oxygen transport". Oxygen Transport to Tissue XVIII, Adv Exp Med Biol, 191-202, 1997.
• McGuyer, J.C., M. J. Vasile, and R. W. Schubert, "Modeling a Micromanufactured Open Recess-tip Oxygen Microelectrode", Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference, 16, 382-385, 1997.
• McGuyer, J.C., M. J. Vasile, and R. W. Schubert, "Modeling a Micromanufactured Open Recess-tip Oxygen Microelectrode", Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference, 16, 382-385, 1997.
• Gardner, J.D. and Schubert, R.W., "Myoglobin Function Evaluated in Working Heart Tissue", (Oxygen Transport to Tissue IX,) Adv Exp Med Biol ; 454: 509 517, 1998.
• Sung S. Kim and Roy W. Schubert "Production of Microbubble for the Intervascular Blood Oxygenation". Seventeenth Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research, February 1999
• Sung S. Kim and Roy Schubert, "Production of Microbubble through Microchannel" Emerging Technologies Conference, Houston, TX., September 2001
• Vanliew, H.P., P. J. Unkel, S. A. Conrad, M. E. Gervacio, and R.W. Schubert, "Adsorption of Bubbles in Gas-Equilibrated Liguid when Surface Tension is the Main Driving Force", submitted to Undersea Biomedical Research