Organization of the Department of Internal Medicine

 

Regents' Professor and Internal Medicine Chair

Pope L. Moseley, MD

Dr. Moseley is Regents' Professor of the University of New Mexico and Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine. He completed a combined residency in Internal Medicine and Occupational Medicine and a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Iowa. He also received his Masters Degree in Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health from the University of Iowa. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Occupational Medicine, and Pulmonary Diseases. From 1980 to 1995, Dr. Moseley had increasing responsibilities at the University of Iowa's Department of Internal Medicine. He joined the University of New Mexico in 1995 as Professor and Chief of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division. He served as the School of Medicine’s Associate Dean for Research from 1999-2001. Dr. Moseley was appointed Chairman of the Internal Medicine Department in 2001.

As Chair, Dr. Moseley’s vision is to sustain and grow the community of scholars that is the hallmark of academic internal medicine. During his service as Chair, he has overseen a large expansion of research, education, and clinical activities of the Department. Dr. Moseley has led the development of a strong governance structure for the Department which is based on transparency and accountability.

Dr. Moseley's research focuses on the role of the cellular heat shock protein (HSP) response in the adaptation of the whole organism. His research group made the initial observations that alterations in cellular HSP accumulation occur in humans under physiologic conditions, and that a conditioning heat stress sufficient to cause HSP accumulation protects the whole organism from endotoxin exposure. He has published more than 80 scientific papers,16 book chapters, and holds 7 U.S. Patents. In addition to his own research, he serves as the Deputy Director of the Participant and Clinical Interactions Resource of the NIH Clinical and Translational Science Center at UNM.

Representative Publications:

1. Glotzer J, Saltih M, Chicocca S, Michon A, Moseley PL, Cotten M. A DNA tumor virus protein GAM-1 has the essential function in virus replication of activating a heat shock response. Nature 407(6801):207-211, 2000.
2. Dokladny K, Wharton W, Lobb R, Ma TY, Moseley PL. Induction of Physiological Theromtolerance in MDCK Monolayers: Contribution of HSP70. Cell Stress Chaperones 11:268-75, 2006.
3. Amorim FT, Yamada PM, Robergs RA, Schneider SM, Moseley PL. The effect of the rate of heat storage on serum heat shock protein 72 in humans. Eur J Appl Physiol. 104(6):965-72, 2008.
4. Dokladny K, Lobb R, Wharton W, Ma T, Moseley PL: Repression of Cytokine Levels in Heat-Conditioned Rats Is Mimicked by Elevated Expression of HSP70 Cell Stress Chaperones 15:153-63, 2009.