Contributors
Detlef Bieger, M.D.
Detlef Bieger received undergraduate and graduate training in medicine and pharmacology at Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany. His interest in the neural control of swallowing arose out of postgraduate work with O. Hornykiewicz at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, Toronto and for over three decades remained a central theme of his research carried out at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, where he now holds an Emeritus appointment. In addition to the neuropharmacological characterization of deglutitive motor pattern generation and neuroanatomical analysis of the relevant brainstem circuitry, other research work in his laboratory is directed at the regulation of smooth muscle contractility in the upper alimentary tract and the vascular system.