University of Texas El Paso (UTEP) medical student Francisco Morales-Acuna was selected to participate in Stanford University’s Postdoctoral Recruitment Initiative in the Science and Medicine (PRISM) program. Morales-Acuña’s research interests include sports medicine, cardiology, and physiology.
A Ph.D. candidate in UTEP’s Interdisciplinary Health Sciences program, Morales-Acuña will leave Feb 20 on a three-day expenses-paid trip to Stanford University. He will meet with Stanford postdocs, discuss shared research interests with faculty, and learn about postdoctoral training at the university.
Stanford PRISM enables late-stage graduate students from diverse backgrounds who are planning their postdoctoral training the opportunity to see first-hand if a postdoctoral position at Stanford University would be a good match for them.
Morales-Acuña earned a Doctor of Medicine degree from Andrés Bello University in Chile in 2009. Currently, he is a research assistant in UTEP’s Doctor of Physical Therapy program. He also manages the Clinical Applied Physiology Lab headed by Alvaro Gurovich, director of the Doctor of Physical Therapy program.
Morales-Acuña’s study found that blood pressure could be measured precisely with an automatic cuff-based blood pressure device during low-intensity exercise. He is the second author on a study to determine the characteristics of congenital heart disease among elite athletes and to analyze the effect of long-term exercise training on their aortas.
According to Morales-Acuña, this is the first study to determine that elite athletes with a bicuspid aortic valve may engage in high dynamic cardiovascular exercise without adverse consequences. Click here to read more.
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