Sarah JolleyCongratulations to Dr. Sarah Jolley, University of Colorado, for her recent appointment to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Long COVID Advisory Committee.

Dr. Jolley was an Assistant Professor in the Louisiana State Health New Orleans - Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and a past LA CaTS Center Roadmap Scholar (4th cohort).  Dr. Jolley's primary research interests focuses on long-term outcomes after critical illness, particularly neuromuscular sequelae of acute lung injury. Her current work investigates chronic alcohol use as a risk factor for myopathy in patients with respiratory failure and explores the role of ghrelin and myostatin, key muscle regulatory hormones, in maintenance of lean muscle mass. These studies build upon prior work exploring delivery of early therapeutic exercise to maintain muscle mass in critically ill patients. It is hoped that her current studies will identify novel therapeutic targets that when combined with early therapeutic exercise will improve long-term physical function for ICU survivors.

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