Ryan Hoiland

Dr. Ryan Hoiland is a member of the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health and the International Collaboration On Repair Discoveries (ICORD), an investigator with the Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management and an assistant professor in the Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He completed his PhD at UBC Okanagan, where he studied cerebrovascular physiology and human adaptation to hypoxia. As a postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Hoiland investigated the pathophysiology of hypoxic-ischemic brain injury as well as traumatic spinal cord injury, with a focus on mitigating secondary hypoxic injury. Collectively, his training involved studying how the central nervous system responds to hypoxia in pre-clinical disease models, healthy humans and patients.

His laboratory aims to determine neuroprotective strategies to improve outcomes for patients suffering an acute central nervous system injury. He conducts studies across the translational continuum in pre-clinical disease models, healthy human studies and clinical patient studies to characterize the pathophysiology of acute traumatic and/or ischemic central nervous system injury. This includes a focus on determining how to optimize oxygen delivery to the brain and spinal cord following an acute injury, with a further interest in cerebrovascular regulation as it pertains to health, disease and adaptions to stressors such as exercise and the environment.