Craig Crandall, Ph.D.

Craig Crandall, 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. Crandall holds a bachelor's degree in physical education from Brigham Young University in Utah. He then earned a master's degree in physical education and exercise physiology at the University of Oregon+ in Eugene. He earned his postdoctoral degree in biological sciences and physiology at the University of North Texas Health Science Center Fort Worth, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Physiology at the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio.

Dr. Crandall joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 1996.

Graduate School

University of Oregon (1989)

Graduate School

University of North Texas (1993)

• Blood pressure control during environmental stressors
• Impact of environmental stressors on hemorrhage control
• Mechanisms of cutaneous responses during hot flashes
• Neural control of skin blood flow and sweating
• Reinnervation and revascularization of grafted skin
• Thermoregulation in healthy and diseased humans

Featured Publications

Aerobic Fitness Is Disproportionately Low in Adult Burn Survivors Years After Injury.

Ganio MS, Pearson J, Schlader ZJ, Brothers RM, Lucas RA, Rivas E, Kowalske KJ, Crandall CG J Burn Care Res 2013 Sep

Colloid volume loading does not mitigate decreases in central blood volume during simulated haemorrhage while heat stressed.

Crandall CG, Wilson TE, Marving J, Bundgaard-Nielsen M, Seifert T, Klausen TL, Andersen F, Secher NH, Hesse B J. Physiol. (Lond.) 2012 Mar 590 Pt 5 1287-97

Effects of heat stress on thermoregulatory responses in congestive heart failure patients

Cui, J., A. Arbab-Zadeh, A. Prasad, S. Durand, B.D. Levine, C.G. Crandall Circulation 2005 112 2286-2292

Mechanism of cocaine-induced hyperthermia in humans

Crandall, C.G., W. Vongpatanasin, R.G. Victor Ann. Int. Med 2002 136 785-791

ACUTE VOLUME EXPANSION ATTENUATES HYPERTHERMIA-INDUCED REDUCTIONS IN CEREBRAL PERFUSION DURING SIMULATED HEMORRHAGE.

Schlader ZJ, Seifert T, Wilson TE, Bundgaard-Nielsen M, Secher NH, Crandall CG J. Appl. Physiol. 2013 Apr

Brain blood flow and cardiovascular responses to hot flashes in postmenopausal women.

Lucas RA, Ganio MS, Pearson J, Crandall CG Menopause 2013 Mar 20 3 299-304

Effect of Human Skin Grafts on Whole-Body Heat Loss During Exercise Heat Stress: A Case Report.

Ganio MS, Gagnon D, Stapleton J, Crandall CG, Kenny GP J Burn Care Res 2012 Nov

Mechanisms of cutaneous vasodilation during the postmenopausal hot flash.

Low DA, Hubing KA, Del Coso J, Crandall CG Menopause 2011 Apr 18 4 359-65

Sustained impairments in cutaneous vasodilation and sweating in grafted skin following long-term recovery.

Davis SL, Shibasaki M, Low DA, Cui J, Keller DM, Wingo JE, Purdue GF, Hunt JL, Arnoldo BD, Kowalske KJ, Crandall CG J Burn Care Res 2009 Jul-Aug 30 4 675-85

• Associate Editor; American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory, Integrative, and Comparative Physiology
  (2013)
• Gisolfi Tutorial Lecture
  (2007)
• Fellow of the American College of Sport Medicine
  (1999)
• American College of Sport Medicine Young Investigator Award
  (1997)

• American Burn Association (2005)
• American Autonomic Society (1998)
• American Physiological Society (1998)
• American College of Sports Medicine (Fellow: 1999) (1990)