Associate Professor Simon Green

• Qualifications
• Biography
• Selected Publication
• Research
• Grants/Current Projects
• Awards and Recognition
• Teaching Interests
• Professional Activities 

I am a physiologist who has held lectureships in Human Movement Studies (QUT) and Physiology (Trinity College Dublin, UNE, Otago) since 1994. I have taught a wide variety of subjects in exercise and physiological sciences.

My research is focused on human cardiovascular and neuromuscular control, and it involves the development of experimental and mathematical techniques to related physiological problems. 

I currently hold conjoint appointments in the Schools of Biomedical/Health Sciences and Medicine, and I am a visiting Senior Research Officer at Neuroscience Research Australia.

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Research

There are four major themes to my research: 

• Physiological control of skeletal muscle blood flow; 
• Muscle fatigue-perfusion interactions; 
• Exercise intolerance and mortality in cardiovascular diseases; and
• Modeling and integration of cardiovascular, neuromuscular and metabolic responses during exercise. 

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Selected Publications

Journal Articles

Green, S., Thorp, R., Reeder, E., Donnelly, J., and Fordy, G. (in press) Venous occlusion plethysmography versus Doppler ultrasound in the assessment of leg blood flow during calf exercise. Eur J Appl Physiology. DOI 10.1007/s00421-010-1819-6.

MacAnaney, O., Reilly, H., O’Shea, D., Egana, M., and Green, S. (2011). Effect of type 2 diabetes on the dynamic response characteristics of leg vascular conductance during exercise. Diabetes Vascular Disease Research, 8(1) 12–21.

James, A., Green, S., and Plank, M. (2009). Modelling the dynamic response of oxygen uptake to exercise. Discrete and Continuous Dynamics Systems Series B, 12(2): 361-370.

Green, S., Askew, C., and Walker, P. (2007). Effect of type 2 diabetes mellitus on exercise intolerance and the physiological responses to exercise in patients with peripheral arterial disease and intermittent claudication. Diabetologia, 50: 859-866.

Egana, M., Smith, S. and Green, S. (2007). Revisiting the effect of posture on cycle performance in men and women. Eur J Appl Physiol, 99: 495-501.

Sanderson, B., Askew, C., Stewart, I., Gibbs, H., Walker, P., and Green, S. (2006). Effect of short-term cycle and treadmill training on exercise tolerance in peripheral arterial disease. J Vasc Surg, 44: 119-127.

Egana, M., and Green, S. (2005). Effect of body tilt angle on calf muscle performance and blood flow in humans. J Appl Physiol, 98: 2249-2258.

Askew, C., Green, S., Green, A., and Walker, P.J. (2005). Skeletal muscle phenotype is associated with exercise tolerance in peripheral arterial disease. J Vasc Surg, 41: 802-807.

Barker, G., Green, S., Green, A., and Walker, P.J. (2004). Walking performance, VO2 kinetics and skeletal muscle pyruvate dehydrogenase activity in peripheral arterial disease. Clin Sci, 106(3): 241-249.

Green, S. (2002). Haemodynamic limitations and exercise performance in peripheral arterial disease. Clin Physiol, 22(2): 81-91.

Hou, X-Y., Green, S., Askew, C.D., Barker, G., Green, A.A., and Walker, P.J. (2002). Skeletal muscle mitochondrial ATP production rate and walking performance in peripheral arterial disease. Clin Physiology, 22(3): 226-232.

Boushel, R., Langberg, H., Green, S., Skovgaard, D., Bülow, J., and Kjær, M. (2000). Blood flow and oxygenation in peri-tendinous tissue and calf muscle during dynamic exercise in humans. J Physiology, 524: 305-313.

Green, S., Langberg, H., Skovgaard, D., Bülow, J., and Kjær, M. (200). Interstitial and arterial-venous [K+] in calf muscle during dynamic exercise: effect of ischaemia and relation to muscle pain. J Physiol, 529.3: 849-861.

Green, S., Bulow, J, and Saltin, B. (1999). Microdialysis and the measurement of muscle interstitial K+ during rest and exercise in humans. J Appl Physiol, 87(1): 460-464.

Green, S., Dawson, B.T., Goodman, C., and Carey, M.F.(1996). Anaerobic ATP production and accumulated O2 deficit in cyclists. Med Sci Sports Exerc, 28(3): 315-321.

Green, S A. (1994). Definition and systems view of anaerobic capacity. Eur J Appl Physiol,69: 168-173.

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Grants/Current Projects

Heart Foundation NZ Small Project Grant - Exercise and muscle blood flow in peripheral arterial disease. Green, S. and Van Rij, A.

Science Foundation Ireland Project Grant - The effect of the peripheral circulation and endothelial function on exercise tolerance in subjects with type II diabetes mellitus. Egana, M., Green, S., O’Shea, D., Lithander, N

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Teaching Interests

I have extensive experience in teaching physiology, particulary in the areas of cardiovascular and exercise physiology. 

My teaching is focused on helping students establish frameworks of thinking about basic physiological concepts, and their integration, in a way that helps students build their own understanding of complex physiological phenomena.

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