Jason H. T. Bates MD, PhD, DSc

Jason H.T. Bates is a respiratory biomedical engineer and physiologist working predominately in the field of lung mechanics with a focus on the biophysical mechanisms of airways responsiveness and the pathophysiology of ventilator-induced lung injury. Dr. Bates spent the earlier part of his career until 1999 in the Meakins-Christie Laboratories of McGill University. He is currently a Professor of Medicine, Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, and Electrical & Biomedical Engineering at the University of Vermont. From 2010-14 he also served as Interim Director of the University of Vermont School of Engineering. Dr. Bates has co-authored more than 310 peer-reviewed scientific papers as well as numerous other articles. In 2009 he authored a book published by Cambridge University Press entitled “Lung Mechanics. An Inverse Modeling Approach”. Dr. Bates is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering, a Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society, a Fellow of the American Thoracic Society, and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers.