Robert Rodgers, Ph.D.

Robert Rodgers
  • Professor Emeritus
  • Email: rrodgers@uri.edu
  • Office Location: Avedisian Hall, 7 Greenhouse Road, Kingston, RI 02881

Research

Effects of diabetes and hypertension on the heart and hormonal regulation of cardiac function and metabolism

Education

Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, 1977
M.S., Oregon State University, 1972
A.B., University of California, Berkeley, 1965

Selected Publications

Christe, M.E. and Rodgers, R.L. Cardiac Glucose and Fatty Acid Oxidation in the Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetic Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat. Hypertension, 25: 235-241. 1995

Rodgers, R.L. The working rat heart preparation. In Measurement of Cardiac Function (McNeil, J.H. ed.) CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp 11-40, 1997

Daniels, Thomas, Rodgers, R.L. et al. Effects of Valproic Acid on Cardiac Metabolism. Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology, Vol. 82, 10: 927-933. 2004.