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News — Rockville, Md. (March 10, 2025)—The American Physiological Society (APS) is pleased to announce its leadership election results for 2025–2026:

• President Robert L. Hester, PhD, FAPS
• President-elect Sue C. Bodine, PhD, FAPS, FIUPS
• Board of Directors members Robert A. Fenton, PhD; Farah Sheikh, PhD, FCVS, FAHA; and Michael Sturek, MS, PhD, FAPS

The incoming officers were elected by APS membership in February and will take office in April at the conclusion of the , APS’ flagship annual meeting.

Robert L. Hester, PhD, FAPS, is the Billy S. Guyton Distinguished Professor and a professor of physiology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Hester is chair of the APS Advisory Council and president-elect of APS. He has served the Society in numerous capacities, including past chair of Joint Programming Committee and the Cardiovascular Section, a member of the Section Advisory, Education and Science Policy committees and the American Physiology Summit 2023 Task Force. Hester is a former associate editor of the American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology and past section editor of Comprehensive Physiology. In addition, he served as chair of the Experimental Biology Board. Hester’s current research is focused on computer simulation of integrative physiology.

Sue C. Bodine, PhD, FAPS, FIUPS, is a professor in the Aging and Metabolism Research Program at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation and a research biologist at the Oklahoma City VA Medical Center. She is an executive editor for the journal Function and on the editorial board of Physiological Reviews. Bodine is a former editor-in-chief for the Journal of Applied Physiology and served as associate editor for the American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism and the American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology. In addition, she served as an APS Councilor from 2019 to 2022. Bodine’s research focuses on the study of the neuromuscular system and its response and adaptation to stressors such as exercise, microgravity, disuse, denervation and aging.

Robert A. Fenton, PhD, is a professor of cell biology in the Department of Biomedicine at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is a member of the APS Advisory Council, is chair of the Renal Section Steering Committee and is the Renal Section representative to the Section Advisory Committee. Fenton is internationally recognized as a leader in kidney pathophysiology and epithelial cell biology, with his interdisciplinary research sitting at the interface between basic and clinical science.

Farah Sheikh, PhD, FCVS, FAHA, is a professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). She is also director of UCSD’s Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program and a Health Science Faculty Equity advisor. Sheikh currently serves the Society as a member of the APS Advisory Council, chair of the Cardiovascular (CV) Section and is the CV Section representative to the Section Advisory Committee. She is a past chair of the CV Section Awards Committee and is a former CV Section Committee-on-Committee Representative. Sheikh’s research interests focus on genetic cardiac disease and gene therapy.

Michael Sturek, MS, PhD, FAPS, is chief scientific officer at CorVus Biomedical LLC and CorVus Foundation Inc. and holds adjunct professor positions in biomedical engineering at Purdue University and in preclinical physiology and molecular imaging at the University of Southern Denmark. He is past chair of the Society’s CV Section and has held numerous leadership roles in the section. Sturek has served APS as a past member of the Career Opportunities in Physiology, Chapter Advisory and Section Advisory committees. His research focuses on preclinical and basic cellular and molecular physiology research on metabolic syndrome, diabetes, aging and their complications.

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