Gilberto Moralez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

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Dr. Moralez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Clinical Research. He completed his Master of Science in Health and Kinesiology, with an emphasis on Exercise Physiology, at the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2010. He later began his doctoral training at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in 2012, graduating with a PhD in Biomedical Science in 2016. He then completed 3 years of post-doctoral training at The Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas. Dr. Moralez joined the Department of Applied Clinical Research in March 2019 and his primary research interests are in the assessment of autonomic cardiovascular responses to exercise, hypoxia and environmental stressors. Specifically, Dr. Moralez is interested in investigating the physiological mechanisms underlying the impaired autonomic control of sympathetic nerve activity to stressors in at-risk groups.

 

 

Graduate School

Uni of North Tx Health Science (2016), Biomedical Sciences

• Autonomic responses and maladaptations to physiological stressors
• Autonomic responses to inflammation, oxidative stress and the activation of renin-angiotensin system
• Cardiovascular responses and adaptations to exercise and environmental stressors
• Central mechanisms contributing to the devolvement of the hyperadrenergic disease state

Featured Publications

Global Reach 2018: Sympathetic neural and hemodynamic responses to submaximal exercise in Andeans with and without chronic mountain sickness.

Hansen AB, Amin SB, Hofstätter F, Mugele H, Simpson LL, Gasho C, Dawkins TG, Tymko MM, Ainslie PN, Villafuerte FC, Hearon CM, Lawley JS, Moralez G, Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2022 Mar

Global Reach 2018: The adaptive phenotype to life with chronic mountain sickness and polycythaemia.

Hansen AB, Moralez G, Amin SB, Simspon LL, Hofstaetter F, Anholm JD, Gasho C, Stembridge M, Dawkins TG, Tymko MM, Ainslie PN, Villafuerte F, Romero SA, Hearon CM, Lawley JS, J Physiol 2021 Jul

Global Reach 2018 Heightened a-Adrenergic Signaling Impairs Endothelial Function During Chronic Exposure to Hypobaric Hypoxia.

Tymko MM, Lawley JS, Ainslie PN, Hansen AB, Hofstaetter F, Rainer S, Amin S, Moralez G, Gasho C, Vizcardo-Galindo G, Bermudez D, Villafuerte FC, Hearon CM, Circ Res 2020 Jul 127 2 e1-e13

Mechanisms of sympathetic restraint in human skeletal muscle during exercise: role of a-adrenergic and nonadrenergic mechanisms.

Hansen AB, Moralez G, Romero SA, Gasho C, Tymko MM, Ainslie PN, Hofstätter F, Rainer SL, Lawley JS, Hearon CM, Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2020 07 319 1 H192-H202

Effect of centrally acting angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor on the exercise-induced increases in muscle sympathetic nerve activity.

Moralez G, Jouett NP, Tian J, Zimmerman MC, Bhella P, Raven PB J. Physiol. (Lond.) 2018 Jun 596 12 2315-2332

Thermoregulatory Responses with Size-matched Simulated Torso or Limb Skin Grafts.

Cramer MN, Huang M, Fischer M, Moralez G, Crandall CG, Med Sci Sports Exerc 2021 Apr

Exercise Training Improves Microvascular Function in Burn Injury Survivors.

Romero SA, Moralez G, Jaffery MF, Huang MU, Engelland RE, Cramer MN, Crandall CG, Med Sci Sports Exerc 2020 Nov 52 11 2430-2436

Low-dose ketamine affects blood pressure, but not muscle sympathetic nerve activity, during progressive central hypovolemia without altering tolerance.

Huang M, Watso JC, Moralez G, Cramer MN, Hendrix JM, Yoo JK, Badrov MB, Fu Q, Hinojosa-Laborde C, Crandall CG, J Physiol 2020 Oct

Low dose ketamine reduces pain perception and blood pressure, but not muscle sympathetic nerve activity, responses during a cold pressor test.

Watso JC, Huang M, Moralez G, Cramer MN, Hendrix JM, Cimino FA, Belval LN, Hinojosa-Laborde C, Crandall CG, J Physiol 2020 Oct

Interaction of Exercise Intensity and Simulated Burn Injury Size on Thermoregulation.

Belval LN, Cramer MN, Moralez G, Huang M, Cimino FA, Watso JC, Crandall CG, Med Sci Sports Exerc 2020 Aug

• Department of Applied Clinical Research, Outstanding Mentor Award
  (2021)
• President's Award for Diversity and Humanism in Clinical Care Nominee
  (2021)
• UT Southwestern School of Health Professions Interdisciplinary Research Grant Award Recipient
  (2020-2021)
• Scholar (Cohort 7) Program to Increase Diversity among Individuals Engaged in Cardiovascular Health-Related Research (PRIDE-CVD) sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
  (2019)
• Wilderness Medical Society Research in Training Grant Award Recipient
  (2018)
• Mentor Judge Travel Award for the 2017 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS)
  (2017)
• Research Supplement to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research. National Institutes of Health - National Institute of General Medical Sciences
  (2016)
• The American Physiological Society, Caroline tum Suden/Francis A. Hellebrandt Professional Opportunity Award
  (2016)
• University of North Texas Health Science Center, Dean's Award for Scholarly Excellence in Research Nominee, Selected by the Committee for Graduate studies
  (2016)
• Young Investigator Award from Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine
  (2016)

• Wilderness Medical Society (2018)
• Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) (2013)
• American College of Sports Medicine (2009)
• Texas Chapter of American College of Sports Medicine (2008)
• American Physiological Society (2007)