Other Professional Activities
Professional Memberships and Committees
1999- Present American Physiological Society (APS)
2004- Present Society for Neuroscience (SfN)
2005- Present Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society (UHMS)
2005- Present Aerospace Medical Association
2014- Present American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
2009- Present Reviewer, High Altitude Medicine and Biology
2009- Present Reviewer, Neuroscience
2009- Present Reviewer, Free Radicals in Medicine and Biology
2009- Present Reviewer, Epilepsia
2009- Present Reviewer, Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology
2011- Present Reviewer, Epilepsy Research
2011- Present Reviewer, PloS One
2012- Present Reviewer, Nutrition & Metabolism
2013- Present Reviewer, International Journal of Sports Nutrition
2013- Present Reviewer, Journal of Lipid Research
2014- Present Reviewer, Comprehensive Physiology
2014- Present Reviewer, Journal of Sports Science and Medicine
2009- Present Editorial Board, Journal of Applied Physiology
2010- Present USF Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)
2013- Present Department of Veterans Affairs: Merit Review Panel Neurobiology-B (NURB) member
Invited and Keynote Talks (2013-2015)
• NASA BlueSky Workshop on Exercise Technologies and Methods for Space Exploration (IHMC Pensacola; Feb 11-12, 2015); Metabolic Strategies to Preserve and Enhance Exercise Performance and Adaptation for Human Spaceflight
• University of Tampa Conference on Human Performance and Nutrition; Department of Exercise Physiology (Tampa, FL; Feb, 2015): Keynote Lecture: Ketogenic Dieting: Emerging Evidence of Fat and Ketones as Fuel
• Eötvös Loránd University; Institute of Biology; (Budapest Hungary; Oct 15, 2014); Ketogenesis as an antiseizure and anticancer strategy: Cellular and molecular mechanism.
• Matthew’s Friends 4th Global Symposium for Dietary Therapies for Epilepsy and other Neurological Disorders for Health Care Professionals (Liverpool, UK, Oct 7-11, 2014): Moving towards Neuroprotection?
• Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC, Ocala, FL: September 25, 2014): Metabolic Therapies: Therapeutic Applications and Practical Implementation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWRnma8Tet0&feature=youtu.be
• International Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Conference (HBOT: Aug 22-24); Hyperbaric Oxygen and Ketogenic Diet as an Adjuvant for Cancer Therapy
• Ancestral Health Symposium (AHS; Berkeley, Aug 6-9); Panel Speaker: Ketogenic Diet for Cancer
• International Society of Sports Nutrition (ISSN; June 19-21, 2014); Metabolic Strategies for Enhanced Physical and Cognitive Performance
• Epilepsy Pipeline Conference (San Francisco, CA; June 5-7, 2014); Ketogenic Compounds for the Treatment of Epilepsy
• NASA Blue Sky Workshop at Cosmos Club (Washington DC; May 29, 2014); Ketones for Astronaut Safety, Performance and Resilience
• Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC, Pensacola, FL: April 2014): Metabolic Therapies: Therapeutic Applications and Practical Implementation
• Alternative and Complementary Medicine Conference (Palm Beach, FL. March 2014): Hyperbaric Oxygen and Ketogenic Diet as an Adjuvant for Cancer Therapy
• American Epilepsy Society (AES); (Washington D.C.; Dec 2013): Ketone Esters for Seizures: A Ketogenic Diet in a Pill?
• TEDx Talk Tampa Bay (St. Pete, FL; Palladium Theater; Oct, 2013); Cancer as a Metabolic Disease: Implications for Therapies
• National Cancer Institute (NCI) Workshop on Cancer Metabolism, Oxidative Stress and the Warburg Effect. Arizona State University. (Nov. 2013): Hyperbaric Oxygen as an Adjuvant for Cancer Therapy
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