Qi Fu, M.D., Ph.D.

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Qi Fu, M.D., Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center and a member of the Division of Cardiology.

Dr. Fu earned her medical degree and a master of science in neurology at the Suzhou University School of Medicine in China. She then earned her Ph.D. in autonomic neuroscience at the Nagoya University School of Medicine in Japan. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship under Dr. Benjamin Levine at the Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine at Texas Health Presbyterian in Dallas.

Dr. Fu joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2004. She is currently the Director of the Women's Heart Health Laboratory at the Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine at Texas Health Presbyterian.

Dr. Fu is a member of the American Autonomic Society and the American Physiology Society. She is also an Associate Editor and Ad Hoc Reviewer for several medical journals and other publications. She is on the Editorial Board of Clinical Autonomic Research ad Clinical and Translational Physiology.

Dr. Fu's research interests include hypertension, heart disease, cardiovascular function in older women and pregnant women, and racial disparities in cardiac care. Her research has led to multiple grants, peer-reviewed publications, and clinical trials. She has given numerous lectures nationally and internationally.

Medical School

Suzhou University (1989), Medicine

Graduate School

Unlisted - International Colle (1995)

Graduate School

Nagoya University - Japan (2001)

• Autonomic circulatory control in normotensive and hypertensive pregnancies
• Cardiovascular health in women
• Sex differences in blood pressure regulation in humans

Featured Publications

Broader adaptive range of sympathetic burst size in response to blood pressure change in older women with greater arterial stiffness

Yoshiyuki Okada, M Melyn Galbreath, Sara S Jarvis, Shigeki Shibata, Wanpen Vongpatanasin, Benjamin D Levine, Qi Fu J Physiol 2020 Aug 16 598 3331-3341

Impact of sex and age on metabolism, sympathetic activity, and hypertension

Jeung-Ki Yoo, Qi Fu FASEB J 2020 Aug Aug 10. doi: 10.1096/fj.202001006RR. Online ahead of print.

Neural control of blood pressure during pregnancy in humans

Sarah L Hissen, Qi Fu Clin Auton Res 2020 Jun doi: 10.1007/s10286-020-00703-3. Online ahead of print.

Sex differences in the sympathetic neural recruitment and hemodynamic response to head-up tilt in older hypertensives

Mark B Badrov, Yoshiyuki Okada, Jeung-Ki Yoo, Wanpen Vongpatanasin, J Kevin Shoemaker, Benjamin D Levine, Qi Fu Hypertension 2020 Feb 2 75 458-467

Impact of prolonged spaceflight on orthostatic tolerance during ambulation and blood pressure profiles in astronauts

Qi Fu, Shigeki Shibata, Jeffrey L Hastings, Steven H Platts, Douglas M Hamilton, Michael W Bungo, Michael B Stenger, Christine Ribeiro, Beverley Adams-Huet, Benjamin D Levine Circulation 2019 Aug 9 140 729-738

Role of corin in blood pressure regulation in normotensive and hypertensive pregnancy

Mark B Badrov, Sun Young Park, Jeung-Ki Yoo, Michinari Hieda, Yoshiyuki Okada, Sara S Jarvis, Abigail S Stickford, Stuart A Best, David B Nelson, Qi Fu Hypertension 2019 Feb 2 73 432-439

Sympathetic neural and hemodynamic responses during cold pressor test in elderly blacks and whites

Yoshiyuki Okada, Sara S Jarvis, Stuart A Best, Jeffrey G Edwards, Joseph M Hendrix, Beverley Adams-Huet, Wanpen Vongpatanasin, Benjamin D Levine, Qi Fu Hypertension 2016 May 5 67 951-958

Age and sex differences in muscle sympathetic nerve activity in relation to haemodynamics, blood volume and left ventricular size

Stuart A Best, Yoshiyuki Okada, M Melyn Galbreath, Sara S Jarvis, Tiffany B Bivens, Beverley Adams-Huet, Qi Fu Exp Physiol 2014 Jun 6 99

Sympathetic activation during early pregnancy in humans

Sara S Jarvis, Shigeki Shibata, Tiffany B Bivens, Yoshiyuki Okada, Brian M Casey, Benjamin D Levine, Qi Fu J Physiol 2012 Aug 15 590 3535-3543

Cardiac origins of the postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome

Qi Fu, Tiffany B Vangundy, M Melyn Galbreath, Shigeki Shibata, Manish Jain, Jeffrey L Hastings, Paul S Bhella, Benjamin D Levine J Am Coll Cardiol 2010 Jun 25 55 2858-2868

• APS-select Award for Distinction in Scholarship in the AJP-R Paper Entitled “Reduced Left Ventricular Diastolic Function in Women with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder”
  (2019)
• NASA JSC Group Achievement Award to Sex and Gender Report Team for Outstanding Contributions to the "Impact of Sex and Gender on Adaptation to Spaceflight" Report
  NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (2015)
• The American Physiology Society Shih-Chun Wang Young Investigator Award
  (2012)
• DAVID H. P. STREETEN American Autonomic Society Award
  (2004)
• The Japanese Foundation for Aging and Health
  (2001)
• The Japanese Government Scholarship
  (1997)

• American Autonomic Society (2003)
• American Physiology Society (2008)