Lei Xi, MD
Born in Chengdu, China, Dr. Lei Xi earned his M.D. degree from Chengdu Institute of Physical Culture and served as team physician at the Chinese National Athletes Training Center of the State Commission of Physical Culture and Sports in Beijing, China. He completed postgraduate studies in cardiopulmonary and exercise physiology at University of Geneva Medical School, Switzerland from 1988 to 1990. Dr. Xi immigrated to the United States in 1990 as postdoctoral fellow in respiratory physiology at University of Wisconsin Medical School. He came to Virginia Commonwealth University in 1996 for his second postdoctoral fellowship in experimental cardiology, as a trainee on two NIH National Research Service Awards. Dr. Xi subsequently joined the faculty of Department of Internal Medicine (Cardiology) in 2000 as Instructor and was promoted to Assistant Professor in 2005.
The longstanding research interests of Dr. Xi include cardiovascular and ventilatory response and adaptation to systemic hypoxia, hyperthermia, and physical exercise in healthy and diseased individuals. He has been taking a comprehensive approach to study the pathophysiological mechanisms of cardiovascular ischemic/hypoxic injury and adaptation at the whole body, intact organ, and cellular/molecular levels. He has authored or co-authored more than 36 peer-reviewed research articles in high-quality biomedical journals such as Circulation, Circulation Research, Journal of Biological Chemistry, American Journal of Physiology, Journal of Applied Physiology, and Journal of Physiology (London). As a principle investigator, Dr. Xi has been continuously funded by research grants from the American Heart Association since 1998.
Dr. Xi holds the membership of American Physiological Society and American Heart Association - Council on Basic Cardiovascular Sciences. Recently he has been appointed to Study Section 1B of the Mid-Atlantic Research Consortium of American Heart Association. Dr. Xi has served as reviewer for 10 international biomedical journals, which include Circulation, Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, Anesthesiology, Brain Research, and Acta Pharmacologica Sinica. He received a Young Investigator Travel Award from the 2nd International Meeting on Pathophysiology of Preconditioning, Hibernation, and Stunning (Sicily, Italy) in 1998 as well as a Research Career Enhancement Award from the American Physiological Society in 2002.
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