Cynthia M. Beall, PhD
Department of Anthropology
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio

Presentation Title
Adaptive Tissue Blood Flow and Circulating Nitric Oxide Products in Tibetans at High Altitude (Summary of Presentation)

Dr Beall is currently an S. Idell Pyle Professor of Anthropology at Case Western Reserve University and holds secondary appointments in the Departments of Anatomy and Global Health and Disease.

Dr Beall received her BA in Biology from the University of Pennsylvania and her MA and PhD in Anthropology from Pennsylvania State University. From 1976-1982, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at CWRU, from 1982-1987 she was an Associate Professor (with tenure) in its Department of Anthropology and in 1987, she became a full Professor in their Department of Anthropology.

She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has been elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society. Dr Beall has written more than thirty-one peer-reviewed publications.

Dr Beall works on adaptation to environmental stress, particularly high-altitude hypoxia. She has found that the three major indigenous high-altitude populations, those from the Andean, Tibetan, and East African plateaus, have different biological adaptations to the same stress. Her current work aims to determine how the three different patterns represent successful adaptations and how they became established in the populations.