Prof. Dr. Jose Antonio Adams is the Chief of Neonatology at Mount Sinai Medical Center. His research interests include pulsatile shear stress and nitric oxide signalling, as well as the modifying effects of passive pulsatile shear stress in endothelial cell biology. His basic science laboratory also studies calcium dynamics in cardiac, vascular, and skeletal muscle and neurons. His lab investigates phenomena spanning from from insulin and calcium signalling in the muscle to the cardiovascular effects of whole-body periodic acceleration, a pioneering technique to produce passive pulsatile shear stress.