Jason H. T. Bates is currently a Professor of Medicine and Molecular Physiology & Biophysics in the University of Vermont College of Medicine, and a Member of the Pulmonary Division at Fletcher Allen Health Care. He is also a member of the American Physiological Society, the American Thoracic Society, the Biomedical Engineering Society, and an elected senior member of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Dr Bates has published more than 190 peer-reviewed journal papers in addition to numerous book chapters, conference abstracts, and other articles. In 1994 he was awarded the Doctor of Science degree by Canterbury University, and in 2002 he was elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.