Jay Dean PhD

Dr. Jay Dean serves as director of the Hyperbaric Biomedical Research Laboratory and a Professor in the Dept. of Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology, Morsani College of Medicine at the University of South Florida. Dr. Dean has pioneered methods for studying the effects of hyperbaric gases on the nervous system, addressing important medical problems in diving and submarine medicine ranging from CNS oxygen toxicity to CO2 regulation and stimulation of breathing, to more recently, Inert Gas Narcosis and High-Pressure Nervous Syndrome.

Dr. Dean received his Ph.D. in Physiology from The Ohio State University, a BS in Biology from Central Michigan University, and his M.S. in Biological Sciences at Michigan Technological University. Dean was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Dept. of Physiology at UNC Chapel Hill and served on the faculty at Wright State University where he rose through the ranks to Full Professor and served as the Interim Chairman of the Department of Anatomy and Physiology. He was named the Brage Golding Distinguish Professor of Research in 2003. Dr. Dean has nearly 70 peer-reviewed publications and is currently writing a book Aviation Physiology during World War II for the American Physiological Society.