Michael Berry
Department Chair, Professor of Health and Exercise Science and Director of the Human Performance Laboratory
Berry researches the interaction between exercise and the respiratory system.
Biography
An interest in mountain climbing during his undergrad years led Michael Berry to his current research focus – the interaction between exercise and the respiratory system. He was aware that the respiratory system was a limiting factor when climbers ascended to high altitudes. However, attending graduate school in Louisiana and Texas did not afford the… Read More »
An interest in mountain climbing during his undergrad years led Michael Berry to his current research focus – the interaction between exercise and the respiratory system. He was aware that the respiratory system was a limiting factor when climbers ascended to high altitudes. However, attending graduate school in Louisiana and Texas did not afford the opportunity to do much research on this topic. So he began to focus on the control of respiration during exercise, and that led to his research on exercise and lung disease.
Berry was the principal investigator on the landmark Exercise and Disability in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Patients study funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. This five-year study examined the role that lifestyle interventions can play in keeping COPD patients active. His teaching and research focuses on the interactions among exercise, the respiratory system and disease.
Media Appearances
Fell off my bike, and vowed never to get back On
The New York Times
November 29, 2010
I remembered what Michael Berry, an exercise physiologist at Wake Forest University, once told me. With cycling, he said, it’s not if you crash, it’s when. He should know. He’s a competitive cyclist whose first serious injury — a broken hip — happened when he crashed taking a sharp turn riding down a mountain road…
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Areas of Expertise
- Coronavirus
- COVID-19
- Delivering exercise interventions to patients with acute respiratory failure
- Effects of exercise on individuals with respiratory diseases
- Exercise and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Human Physiology
Education
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, Sports Science
Texas A&M University: Ph.D., Sports Science
Southeastern Louisiana University: M.A., Sports Science
Jacksonville State University: B.A., Sports Science
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