Keisa Williams Mathis PhD

Keisa Mathis, PhD became Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiology and Anatomy at the University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC) in June of 2014. She completed her graduate work at Louisiana State University Health Science Center and her postdoctoral training at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.

Dr. Mathis' research interests include neuroimmune control of inflammation in hypertension and lupus, two diseases with tremendous health disparity. Research in the Mathis laboratory is funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Mathis teaches signal transduction, endocrine, reproductive, and/or gastrointestinal physiology in the Physician Assistant Program, Medical Science Program, and advanced graduate students at UNTHSC. Dr. Mathis is a member of UNTHSC's IACUC, the incoming coordinator for the Joint Admission Medical Program (JAMP), as well as a member of the UNTHSC's Texas Center for Health Disparities Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD) Internal Advisory Committee.

She is also involved in committees within the National Institutes of Health, American Heart Association and the American Physiological Society. In the past year, Dr. Mathis became Associate Editor of the American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology and Executive Director of the newly founded Black in Physiology. Finally, Dr. Mathis is dedicated to the DFW community and shows this by organizing Physiology Understanding (PhUn) Tours throughout K-12 schools in DFW to spread awareness of physiology, research and science in general.