Professor,
Department Chair
Schroeder Complex 346H
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After a mathematics degree from Macalester College (1972), Dr. Pan received his physical therapy training at St. Louis University (1976). He worked for three years as a staff physical therapist at Columbia Hospital in Milwaukee specializing in joint mobilization and arthritis rehabilitation. Entering the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1979, Dr. Pan received his PhD in Physiology (1983) with his dissertation on control of breathing during exercise. After a two-year NIH post-doctoral fellowship, Dr. Pan joined the PT faculty at Marquette University in 1985. His teaching has been in neuroanatomy, neurological rehabilitation, and research.
Dr. Pan maintains an active research program in central control of breathing. He is funded by research grants from the NIH and the Veteran's Administration and studies the role of the medulla oblongata in breathing responses and periodicities that might lead to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Dr. Pan has published over 74 research articles in peer reviewed journals and two book chapters. He is a strong supporter of PT research and mentored Marquette students in initiating the Marquette Challenge, a nation-wide effort to student challenge to raise money for the Foundation for PT Research. The Challenge has raised over $800,000 for research since 1989.
Because of Marquette's interest in urban issues, its Department of Physical Therapy now has a 2-year 1.8 million dollar Health Careers Opportunity Program (HCOP) grant to recruit and retain disadvantaged students in health professions at Marquette. With Dr. Pan as the HCOP Director, Marquette offers a wide variety of pre-college and summer programs designed to educate and retain disadvantaged students in PT.
Dr. Pan has won the American Physical Therapy Association's (APTA) Margaret L. Moore Award as the Outstanding New Faculty Member in physical therapy (1991). His HCOP program won APTA's Minority Initiatives Award in 1991 and its Minority Achievement Award in 1995, as the top new initiative, and best ongoing recruitment and retention program in the country respectively. Since 1990, Marquette has produced three Minority Scholarship for Excellence Award winners, and three more Mary McMillan scholars given to the top physical therapy students in the country. In 1997, Dr. Pan won the Foundation for PT's Charles Magistro Award for longstanding service, and in 1998, he won the Diversity 2000 outstanding service to cultural diversity issues.
Degrees Held
- B.A. in Math (Macalester College)
- B.S. in Physical Therapy (St. Louis University)
- Ph.D. in Physiology (Medical College of Wisconsin)
Teaching Responsibilities
- Neuroanatomy
- Neurologic Physical Therapy
- Physical Therapy Diagnosis
- Independent Research Projects
Special Interests
- Exercise Physiology
- Respiratory Physiology
- Neural Control of Breathing
- Minority Education
National Awards from American Physical Therapy Association
- 1991 Margaret L. Moore Award as the Outstanding New Academic Member
- 1991 Minority Initiatives
- 1995 Minority Achievement Award
- 1997 Charles Magistro Award for service to the Foundation for Physical Therapy
- 1998 Diversity 2000 Award for long standing service to cultural diversity issues.
