Prof. Susan A. Ward is Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Biological Sciences at the University of Leeds, where she was appointed to the Chair of Sport and Exercise Science and Head of the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences in 2003, becoming Emeritus Professor in 2007 . She gained her DPhil in Physiology from the University of Oxford in 1974 .
Her career has been unusually international. Following two years as a Lecturer in the Department of Physiology at Liverpool University, she moved to the University of California at Los Angeles, becoming Professor of Anesthesiology and Physiology in 1988. She returned to the United Kingdom in 1993, first to the Department of Physiology at the University of London's St George's Hospital Medical School, then to South Bank University as Chair of Sports Science, and in 1998 to the University of Glasgow as Director of the Centre for Exercise Science and Medicine .
Her research interests include the control of ventilation, pulmonary gas exchange and muscle energetics during exercise in health, altered environments and disease, together with the methodology and applications of cardiopulmonary exercise testing . She has some 180–190 publications on these topics, including work on respiratory and sleep disorders in mucopolysaccharidosis, muscle activation heterogeneity during knee-extensor exercise, and the regulation of breathing during exercise .
She is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and the European Respiratory Society, and a Fellow by invitation of the European College of Sports Science . She is immediate past Editor-in-Chief of the *European Journal of Applied Physiology*, previously served as Chair of the Pulmonary Circulation, Gas Exchange and Exercise Group of the European Respiratory Society, and is a consultant for Xtreme Everest 2, a collaborative venture between Duke University, the University of Southampton and University College London . She also holds a Visiting Professorship in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton and presently operates a research and educational consultancy .
Prof. Ward's career reflects a rare combination of physiological rigour and international breadth — from anaesthesiology and physiology at UCLA to leadership of two UK sport and exercise science schools, and a research programme that has shaped how the field understands ventilatory control and pulmonary gas exchange during exercise.
Her editorial experience at the helm of the European Journal of Applied Physiology, and her long service to the European Respiratory Society, give her an unusually clear view of what high-indexed journals expect from a manuscript. We are grateful that she brings that perspective to APC.
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