Ryan Hoiland

Dr. Hoiland obtained his BHK, MSc, and PhD in Health and Exercise sciences at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. The main research focus of his graduate training was on cerebral vascular physiology, particularly in the context of how the brain regulates its blood supply when there are reductions in the amount of oxygen in the blood. Now, as a postdoctoral fellow in the UBC Faculty of Medicine, Dr. Hoiland's research investigates how to mitigate the injurious influence of reduced oxygen levels (i.e. hypoxia) within the central nervous system (brain & spinal cord). This includes: 1) investigating the pathophysiology of hypoxic brain injury following a cardiac arrest, where cessation of the brain's blood supply leads to a hypoxic brain injury, 2) investigating therapeutic interventions aimed at alleviating brain hypoxia following cardiac arrest to promote improved neurologic recovery, 3) investigating the pathophysiology of secondary hypoxia of the spinal cord following a traumatic spinal cord injury, and 4) investigating methods to alleviate spinal cord hypoxia following a traumatic spinal cord injury to promote improved neurologic recovery.