Jonathan C Jarvis

Jonathan C. Jarvis received the B.Sc. degree in physics with physiology from Queen Elizabeth College, University of London, London, U.K., in 1982 and the Ph.D. and D.I.C. degrees from Imperial College, University of London, in 1987. His research career at the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, U.K., and now as Lecturer at the University of Liverpool, Liverpool, U.K., has been directed toward the safe and effective implementation of cardiac assistance from skeletal muscle. To this end, he has measured the effect of chronic activity on the mechanical properties of whole muscles and in particular on the ability of pumps formed from trained skeletal muscle to assist the heart. His professional interests also include the regulation of gene expression in skeletal muscle, the development and manufacture of miniature programmable neuromuscular stimulators, and the numerical modeling of muscle as a mechanical actuator and of the assisted cardiovascular system.