Robert L. Rodgers, Ph.D.

Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences
rrodgers@uri.edu

Research Interests

Effects of diabetes and hypertension on the heart and hormonal regulation of cardiac function and metabolism

Education

Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, 1977

M.S., Oregon State University, 1972

A.B., University of California, Berkeley, 1965

Christe, M.E. and Rodgers, R.L. Cardiac Glucose and Fatty Acid Oxidation in the Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetic Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat.  Hypertension, 25: 235-241. 1995

Rodgers, R.L. The working rat heart preparation.  In Measurement of Cardiac Function (McNeil, J.H. ed.) CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp 11-40, 1997

Daniels, Thomas, Rodgers, R.L. et al. Effects of Valproic Acid on Cardiac Metabolism.  Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology, Vol. 82, 10: 927-933. 2004.