Blair Johnson


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Associate Professor

Email: bj33@iu.edu
Phone: 812-855-8699
Address: 1025 E. 7th St.
Department: Kinesiology

B.S. North Dakota State University 2003
M.S. University of Wisconsin-La Crosse 2007
Ph.D. Indiana University 2011

Position/Grant/Award/etc.

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, University at Buffalo (2014-2020)
  • Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the White House (2019)
  • Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine (2019-)
  • Director of Research Early Career Grant, Office of Naval Research (2017-)
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship, Mayo Clinic (2011-2014)
  • Beginning New Investigator Military Physiology Award, The American Physiological Society (2013)

Research

  • Exercise Physiology
  • Autonomic Physiology
  • Cardiovascular Physiology
  • Environmental Physiology
  • Concussion

Johnson BD, Sackett JR, Sarker S, & Schlader ZJ. Face cooling increases blood pressure during central hypovolemia. AJP-Regulatory, Integrative, and Circulatory Physiology, 313: R594-R600, 2017.

Sackett JR, Schlader ZJ, Cruz C, Hostler D, & Johnson BD. The effect of water immersion and acute hypercapnia on ventilatory sensitivity and cerebrovascular reactivity. Physiological Reports, 6(19): e13901, 2018.

Crandall CG, Rickards CA, & Johnson BD. Impact of Environmental Stressors on Tolerance to Hemorrhage in Humans. AJP-Regulatory, Integrative, and Circulatory Physiology, 316(2): R88-100, 2019.

Haider MN, Johnson SL, Mannix R, Macfarlane AJ, Constantino D, Johnson BD, Willer B, & Leddy JJ. The Buffalo concussion bike test for concussion assessment in adolescents. Sports Health, 11(6): 492-497, 2019.

Johnson BD, O'Leary MC, McBryde M, Sackett JR, Schlader ZJ, & Leddy JJ. Face cooling exposes cardiac parasympathetic dysfunction in recently concussed college athletes. Physiological Reports, 6(9): e13694, 2018.

Johnson BD, Sackett JR, Schlader ZJ, & Leddy JJ. Attenuated cardiovascular responses to sympathoexcitation in recently concussed college athletes. Journal of Athletic Training, 55(2): 124-131, 2020.

Hess HW, Clemency BM, Hostler D, & Johnson BD. Carotid body chemosensitivity during normoxic and hyperoxic hyperbaria. Journal of Applied Physiology, in press.