Bell, Harold
Ph.D.
Associate Dean
Biography
Dr. Bell is a Professor of Physiology and serves as the Assistant Dean of Foundational Sciences Education for the CMU College of Medicine. In this role, he provides leadership and oversight for the first two years our undergraduate medical education program. Dr. Bell joined the College of Medicine as one of our inaugural faculty in 2012 and was appointed Assistant Dean in 2018. A physiologist by training, he received his bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees at the University of Toronto, Canada. He went on to complete postdoctoral training at the University of Calgary and Penn State University (Hershey) before being appointed Assistant Professor of Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Physiology at Penn State in 2010. Dr. Bell has played an instrumental role in development and accreditation of the pre-clerkship education program, and has served as Course Director for the Cardio Pulmonary Wellness and Disease course block since the first iteration of the course in 2013. A successful educator, he is an advocate for student-centered and active learning approaches, and works to promote a safe and open environment for students to begin to develop their sense of professional identity. Dr. Bell remains actively engaged in the research community and enjoys providing students with valuable research experiences by engaging them in his ongoing research program, focused on disorders of respiratory control.
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Publications & Presentations
Bell HJ, Pankuch G (2013). Augmented breaths ('sighs') are suppressed by morphine in a dose-dependent fashion via naloxone-sensitive pathways in adult rats. Respiratory physiology & neurobiology.
Haouzi P, Bell H, Philmon M (2011). Hydrogen sulfide oxidation and the arterial chemoreflex: effect of methemoglobin. Respiratory physiology & neurobiology.
Haouzi P, Bell HJ (2009). Control of breathing and volitional respiratory rhythm in humans. Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985).
Haouzi P, Bell HJ, Notet V, Bihain B (2009). Comparison of the metabolic and ventilatory response to hypoxia and H2S in unsedated mice and rats. Respiratory physiology & neurobiology.
Bekteshi E, Bell HJ, Haouzi A, El-Banayosy A, Haouzi P (2010). Control of breathing during acute change in cardiac preload in a patient with partial cardiopulmonary bypass. Respiratory physiology & neurobiology.
Bell HJ, Syed NI (2009). Hypoxia-induced modulation of the respiratory CPG. Frontiers in bioscience (Landmark edition).
Haouzi P, Bell H, Van de Louw A (2011). Hypoxia-induced arterial chemoreceptor stimulation and hydrogen sulfide: too much or too little? Respiratory physiology & neurobiology.
Bell HJ, Ferguson C, Kehoe V, Haouzi P (2009). Hypocapnia increases the prevalence of hypoxia-induced augmented breaths. American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology.
Bell HJ, Azubike E, Haouzi P (2011). The "other" respiratory effect of opioids: suppression of spontaneous augmented ("sigh") breaths. Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985).
Shoemaker A, Steelman K, Srbu R, Bell HJ (2020). Disparity in the effect of morphine on eupnea and gasping in anesthetized spontaneously breathing adult rats. American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology.
Haouzi P, Ahmadpour N, Bell HJ, Artman S, Banchs J, Samii S, Gonzalez M, Gleeson K (2010). Breathing patterns during cardiac arrest. Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985).
Bell HJ, Haouzi P (2009). Acetazolamide suppresses the prevalence of augmented breaths during exposure to hypoxia. American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology.
Haouzi P, Bell HJ (2010). Respiratory effects of changing the volume load imposed on the peripheral venous system. Respiratory physiology & neurobiology.
Bell HJ, Duffin J (2003). CO2 does not affect passive exercise ventilatory decline. Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985).
Eldridge FL, Morin D, Romaniuk JR, Yamashiro S, Potts JT, Ichiyama RM, Bell H, Phillipson EA, Killian KJ, Jones NL, Nattie E (2006). Supraspinal locomotor centers do/do not contribute significantly to the hyperpnea of dynamic exercise in humans. Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985).
Bell HJ, Feenstra W, Duffin J (2005). The initial phase of exercise hyperpnoea in humans is depressed during a cognitive task. Experimental physiology.
Bell HJ, Duffin J (2004). Respiratory response to passive limb movement is suppressed by a cognitive task. Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985).
Bell HJ (2006). Respiratory control at exercise onset: an integrated systems perspective. Respiratory physiology & neurobiology.
Bell HJ, Ramsaroop DM, Duffin J (2003). The respiratory effects of two modes of passive exercise. European journal of applied physiology.
Bell HJ, Duffin J (2006). Rapid increases in ventilation accompany the transition from passive to active movement. Respiratory physiology & neurobiology.
Krause A, Nowak Z, Srbu R, Bell HJ (2016). Respiratory autoresuscitation following severe acute hypoxemia in anesthetized adult rats Respir Physiol Neurobiol.
Bell HJ (2006). Supraspinal locomotor centers do/do not contribute significantly to the hyperpnea of dynamic exercise in humans. Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985).
Thompson TL, Molter R, Bell H, Vance S (2020). Central Michigan University College of Medicine. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Bell HJ, Inoue T, Shum K, Luk C, Syed NI (2007). Peripheral oxygen-sensing cells directly modulate the output of an identified respiratory central pattern generating neuron. The European journal of neuroscience.
Bell HJ, Inoue T, Syed NI (2008). A peripheral oxygen sensor provides direct activation of an identified respiratory CPG neuron in Lymnaea. Advances in experimental medicine and biology.
Bell HJ, Syed NI (2012). Control of breathing in invertebrate model systems. Comprehensive Physiology.
Credentials, Certifications & Awards
Young Investigator Award, International selection committee of the Xth Oxford Conference on Modelling and Control of Breathing
Education
Ph.D., University of Toronto
M.Sc., University of Toronto
Membership in Professional Organizations
American Thoracic Society