David Christopher Poole (born 1959) is a British-American scientist who researches

oxygen transport Blood is a body fluid in the circulatory system of humans and other vertebrates that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells, and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells. Blood in the ci ...

in health and disease focusing on the mechanisms of exercise intolerance.

Academic work

He is a University Distinguished Professor and Coffman Chair for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Scholars in the Departments of Kinesiology and Anatomy & Physiology at

Kansas State University Kansas State University (KSU, Kansas State, or K-State) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Manhattan, Kansas, United States. It was opened as the state's land-grant college in 1863 and was the first public instit ...

. His laboratory has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the

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Research

His models of capillary function, oxygen uptake kinetics and Critical Power have become de rigueur in

exercise physiology Exercise physiology is the physiology of physical exercise. It is one of the allied health professions, and involves the study of the acute responses and chronic adaptations to exercise. Exercise physiologists are the highest qualified exercise ...

Affiliations with organisations

He was elected President of the

American College of Sports Medicine The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, is a sports medicine and exercise science membership organization. Founded in 1954, ACSM holds conferences, publishes books and journals, and offers certific ...

(ACSM) Central State Chapter in 2001 and Chair for the Environmental and Exercise Physiology section of the American Physiological Society (APS) in 2021. He presented the APS’s Adolph Distinguished Lecture in 2018 entitled: “Muscle Microcirculation: Gateway to Function and Dysfunction". A Fellow of the

(ACSM), he delivered the Joseph B. Wolffe Memorial Lecture entitled “How Do YOU Power Aerobic Exercise” at the ACSM’s 2021 annual meeting and received the ACSM Citation Award in 2019.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Poole, David C. American physiologists Kansas State University faculty University of California, Los Angeles alumni Alumni of Liverpool John Moores University University of California, San Diego faculty Living people 1959 births British physiologists British emigrants to the United States