Charles M. Tipton, PhD, is an active emeritus professor of
physiology at the University of Arizona. He received a PhD in physiology
from the University of Illinois in 1962. He retired after 35 years of
directing exercise physiology laboratories that investigated
physiological mechanisms associated with the effects of acute and
chronic exercise. He is recognized as a leading authority of exercise
physiology.
Professor Tipton taught physiology and exercise physiology courses to
undergraduate, graduate, medical, and professional students at the
University of Iowa and the University of Arizona and mentored 21 PhD
students at these locations. He has written, coauthored, or edited six
books, 33 chapters and proceedings, and approximately 18 articles. In
addition, he served as editor in chief of Medicine and Science in
Sports and Exercise and was an associate editor of the Journal of
Applied Physiology for nearly a decade. He has been both member and
chair of select National Institutes of Health (NIH) study sections and
of several American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) research
committees. A past president of ACSM, Professor Tipton has been
appointed to many microgravity advisory committees that include the NASA
Review Panel on Space Medicine and Countermeasures, the External
Advisory Committee for the National Space Biomedical Research Institute
(NSBRI), and the Congress-directed National Research Council Steering
Committee on Recapturing a Future for Space Exploration. For his
research and professional endeavors, he received Honor Awards from the
ACSM and from the Environmental and Exercise Physiology Section of the
American Physiological Society. Fellow Tipton also received the Clark W.
Hetherington Award from the National Kinesiology Academy.