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H.
Thomas Robertson, II, M.D.
Professor of Medicine and of Physiology &
Biophysics
Section Head, UWMC
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
OFFICE ADDRESS
University of Washington Medical Center
1959 N.E. Pacific, Campus Box 356522
Seattle, WA 98195-6522
tomrobt@u.washington.edu
Academic Office: (206) 543-3166
Fax: (206) 685-8673
Clinic Appointments: (206) 598-4615
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EDUCATION
AND TRAINING
B.A. in Chemistry, Colgate University, Hamilton,
New York, 1964.
M.D. in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston,
Massachussetts, 1968.
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CURRENT RESEARCH
INTERESTS
My primary research emphasis has been gas
exchange in the normal and abnormal lung.
Utilizing the inhalation of fluorescent aerosols
and the injection of fluorescent microspheres, we
take high-resolution measurements of ventilation
and blood flow to obtain complete flow maps of
the lung.
The correlation between these two flows
determines the efficiency of overall pulmonary
gas exchange. One research question under
investigation is the importance of scale in
determining gas exchange efficiency, as both
regional ventilation and ventilation have fractal
properties. A second focus is the study of
mechanisms which determine this matching of
flows. A clinical research interest centers
around the mechanisms determining exercise
limitation in a wide variety of human disease
conditions, utilizing the clinical exercise
studies performed in the pulmonary diagnostic
laboratory.
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
Hopkins SR, McKenzie DC, Schoene RB, Glenny RW,
Robertson HT. Pulmonary gas exchange during
exercise in athletes: I. Ventilation-perfusion
mismatch and diffusion limitation. J App
Physiol 77:912-917, 1994.
Glenny RW, Polissar NL, McKinney S, and Robertson
HT. Temporal heterogeneity of regional pulmonary
perfusion is spatially clustered. J Appl
Physiol 79:986-1001, 1995.
Robertson HT, Glenny RW, Stanford D, McInnes LM,
Luchtel DL, Covert D. High-resolution maps of
regional ventilation utilizing inhaled
fluorescent microspheres. J App Physiol
82:943-953, 1997.
Altemeier WA,Robertson HT,McKinney S, Glenny RW.
Pulmonary embolizationcauses hypoxemia by
redistributing regional blood flow without
changingventilation. J Appl Physiol. 85:2337-43,
1998.
Altemeier WA, Robertson HT, Glenny RW. Pulmonary
gas-exchange analysis by using simultaneous
deposition of aerosolized and injected
microspheres. J Appl Physiol. Dec;85(6):2344-51,
1998.
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