Dr Shieak YC Tzeng, Our people, University of Otago, Wellington, University of Otago, New Zealand

Shieak Tzeng image MBChB, PhD

Background

I graduated with a conjoint degree in medicine and PhD (physiology) from the University of Otago. I completed a period of hospital clinical practice before pursuing advanced post-doctoral training in New Zealand and at the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital at Harvard Medical School on a National Heart Foundation Research Fellowship. I was awarded an HRC Sir Charles Hercus Fellowship in 2010 and returned to New Zealand where I was also appointed as a Lecturer and subsequently Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor at the University of Otago, Wellington. Between 2013 and 2018, I served as the founding Director of Otago University's Centre for Translational Research.

I'm a clinician-scientist with 15 years of experience running research and development programs at the interface between medicine and technology in both academia and industry. My specialty is neurovascular pathology and medical device technologies based on low-field nuclear magnetic resonance. The translational nature of my research programme involved developing intellectual property to the point of commercialisation, including licencing deals and the formation of two University spinout companies.

My current research projects are focused on developing novel sensors for the early detection and classification of stroke in mobile ambulances.

Contact details

Department of Surgery & Anaesthesia
University of Otago, Wellington
23A Mein Street, Newtown
Wellington

Email shieak.tzeng@otago.ac.nz

Associate Professor Tzeng's Health Sciences database profile

Current roles

Associate Professor, Clinical Physiology, Department of Surgery & Anaesthesia
Principal Investigator, Wellington Medical Technology Group
Reviewing Editor, Frontiers in Exercise Physiology
Member, O-Zone Research Group
Member, Division of Health Sciences Research Committee

Research interests

Stroke
Neuroprotection
Hypertension
Physiological monitoring technologies
Computational modelling

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Publications

Ali, H., Brooks, C., Tzeng, Y.-C., Crane, J., Beasley, R., Gibson, P., Pattemore, P., Stanley, T., Pearce, N., & Douwes, J. (2022). Heart rate variability as a marker of autonomic nervous system activity in young people with eosinophilic and non-eosinophilic asthma. Journal of Asthma. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/02770903.2022.2070763

Thomas, D. G., Galvosas, P., Tzeng, Y.-C., Harrison, F. G., Berry, M. J., Teal, P. D., … Obruchkov, S. (2022). Oxygen saturation-dependent effects on blood transverse relaxation at low fields. Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology & Medicine. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s10334-021-00993-2

Ali, H., Brooks, C., Crane, J., Beasley, R., Holgate, S., Gibson, P., Pattemore, P., Tzeng, Y.-C., Stanley, T., … Douwes, J. (2021). Enhanced airway sensory nerve reactivity in non-eosinophilic asthma. BMJ Open Respiratory Research, 8, e000974. doi: 10.1136/bmjresp-2021-000974

Fong, D., Gradon, K., Barrett, C. J., Guild, S.-J., Tzeng, Y. C., Paton, J. F. R., & McBryde, F. D. (2021). A method to evaluate dynamic cerebral pressure-flow relationships in the conscious rat. Journal of Applied Physiology, 131, 1361-1369. doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00289.2021

Fan, J.-L., Nogueira, R. C., Brassard, P., Rickards, C. A., Page, M., Nasr, N., & Tzeng, Y.-C. (2021). Integrative physiological assessment of cerebral hemodynamics and metabolism in acute ischemic stroke. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/0271678x211033732

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Barclay, H., Mukerji, S., Kayser, B., O'Donnell, T., Tzeng, Y.-C., Hill, S., … Fan, J.-L. (2021). Respiratory alkalinization and posterior cerebral artery dilatation predict acute mountain sickness severity during 10 h normobaric hypoxia. Experimental Physiology, 106, 175-190. doi: 10.1113/EP088938

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Fan, J.-L., O'Donnell, T., Lanford, J., Croft, K., Watson, E., Smyth, D., … Tzeng, Y.-C. (2020). Dietary nitrate reduces blood pressure and cerebral artery velocity fluctuations and improve cerebral autoregulation in transient ischemic attack patients. Journal of Applied Physiology, 129, 547-557. doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00160.2020

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Fan, J.-L., O'Donnell, T., Gray, C. L., Croft, K., Noakes, A. K., Koch, H., & Tzeng, Y.-C. (2019). Dietary nitrate supplementation enhances cerebrovascular CO₂ reactivity in a sex-specific manner. Journal of Applied Physiology, 127, 760-769. doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01116.2018

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Allan, P. D., O'Donnell, T., & Tzeng, Y.-C. (2018). Agreement between finger plethysmography- and brachial oscillometry-derived blood pressure measurements. Clinical Physiology & Functional Imaging, 38(3), 439-446. doi: 10.1111/cpf.12435

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Allan, P. D., Tzeng, Y.-C., Gowing, E. K., Clarkson, A. N., & Fan, J.-L. (2018). Dietary nitrate supplementation reduces low frequency blood pressure fluctuations in rats following distal middle cerebral artery occlusion. Journal of Applied Physiology, 125(3), 862-869. doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01081.2017

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Saleem, S., Teal, P. D., Howe, C. A., Tymko, M. M., Ainslie, P. N., & Tzeng, Y.-C. (2018). Is Cushing mechanism a dynamic blood pressure stabilizing system? Insights from Granger causality analysis of spontaneous blood pressure and cerebral blood flow. American Journal of Physiology: Regulatory, Integrative & Comparative Physiology, 315(3), R484-R495. doi: 10.1152/ajpregu.00032.2018

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Saleem, S., Vucina, D., Sarafis, Z., Lee, A. H. X., Squair, J. W., Barak, O. F., … Tzeng, Y.-C., & Phillips, A. A. (2018). Wavelet decomposition analysis is a clinically relevant strategy to evaluate cerebrovascular buffering of blood pressure after spinal cord injury. American Journal of Physiology: Heart & Circulatory Physiology, 314(5), H1108-H1114. doi: 10.1152/ajpheart.00152.2017

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Faulkner, J., Tzeng, Y.-C., Lambrick, D., Woolley, B., Allan, P. D., O'Donnell, T., Lanford, J., Wong, L., & Stoner, L. (2017). A randomized controlled trial to assess the central hemodynamic response to exercise in patients with transient ischaemic attack and minor stroke. Journal of Human Hypertension, 31, 172-177. doi: 10.1038/jhh.2016.72

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Malenfant, S., Brassard, P., Paquette, M., Le Blanc, O., Chouinard, A., Nadeau, V., Allan, P. D., Tzeng, Y.-C., … Provencher, S. (2017). Compromised cerebrovascular regulation and cerebral oxygenation in pulmonary arterial hypertension. Journal of the American Heart Association, 6(10), e006126. doi: 10.1161/jaha.117.006126

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Phillips, A. A., Squair, J., Currie, K., Tzeng, Y.-C., Ainslie, P., & Krassioukov, A. V. (2017). 2015 ParaPan American Games: Autonomic function, but not physical activity, is associated with vascular-cognitive impairment in spinal cord injury. Journal of Neurotrauma, 34(6), 1283-1288. doi: 10.1089/neu.2016.4751

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Saleem, S., Tzeng, Y.-C., Kleijn, W. B., & Teal, P. D. (2017). Detection of impaired sympathetic cerebrovascular control using functional biomarkers based on principal dynamic mode analysis. Frontiers in Physiology, 7, 685. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2016.00685

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Witter, T., Tzeng, Y.-C., O'Donnell, T., Kusel, J., Walker, B., Berry, M., & Taylor, C. E. (2017). Inter-individual relationships between sympathetic arterial baroreflex function and cerebral perfusion control in healthy males. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 11, 457. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2017.00457

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Saleem, S., Teal, P. D., Kleijn, W. B., Ainslie, P. N., & Tzeng, Y.-C. (2016). Identification of human sympathetic neurovascular control using multivariate wavelet decomposition analysis. American Journal of Physiology: Heart & Circulatory Physiology, 311(3), H837-H848. doi: 10.1152/ajpheart.00254.2016

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Smirl, J. D., Hoffman, K., Tzeng, Y.-C., Hansen, A., & Ainslie, P. N. (2016). The relationship between blood pressure and cerebral blood flow during supine cycling: Influence of aging. Journal of Applied Physiology, 120(5), 552-563. doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00667.2015

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Allan, P. D., Faulkner, J., O'Donnell, T., Lanford, J., Wong, L., Saleem, S., … Tzeng, Y.-C. (2015). Hemodynamic variability and cerebrovascular control after transient cerebral ischemia. Physiological Reports, 3(11), e12602. doi: 10.14814/phy2.12602

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Horsman, H. M., Peebles, K. C., & Tzeng, Y. C. (2015). Interactions between breathing rate and low-frequency fluctuations in blood pressure and cardiac intervals. Journal of Applied Physiology, 119, 793-798. doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00525.2015

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Rickards, C. A., Sprick, J. D., Colby, H. B., Kay, V., & Tzeng, Y.-C. (2015). Coupling between arterial pressure, cerebral blood velocity, and cerebral tissue oxygenation with spontaneous and forced oscillations. Physiological Measurement, 36(4), 785-801. doi: 10.1088/0967-3334/36/4/785

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Saleem, S., Teal, P. D., Kleijn, W. B., O'Donnell, T., Witter, T., & Tzeng, Y.-C. (2015). Non-linear characterisation of cerebral pressure-flow dynamics in humans. PLoS ONE, 10(9), e0139470. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0139470

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Smirl, J. D., Hoffman, K., Tzeng, Y.-C., Hansen, A., & Ainslie, P. N. (2015). Methodological comparison of active- and passive-driven oscillations in blood pressure: Implications for the assessment of cerebral pressure-flow relationships. Journal of Applied Physiology, 119(5), 487-501. doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00264.2015

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Berry, M., Tzeng, Y., & Marsland, C. (2014). Percutaneous transtracheal ventilation in an obstructed airway model in post-apnoeic sheep. British Journal of Anaesthesia, 113(6), 1039-1045. doi: 10.1093/bja/aeu188

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Horsman, H. M., Tzeng, Y. C., Galletly, D. C., & Peebles, K. C. (2014). The repeated sit-to-stand manoeuvre is a superior method for cardiac baroreflex assessment: A comparison with the modified Oxford method and Valsalva manoeuvre. American Journal of Physiology: Regulatory, Integrative & Comparative Physiology, 307(11), R1345-R1352. doi: 10.1152/ajpregu.00376.2014

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Meel-van den Abeelen, A. S. S., Simpson, D. M., Wang, L. J. Y., Slump, C. H., Zhang, R., Tarumi, T., … Tzeng, Y.-C., … Claassen, J. A. H. R. (2014). Between-centre variability in transfer function analysis, a widely used method for linear quantification of the dynamic pressure-flow relation: The CARNet study. Medical Engineering & Physics, 36(5), 620-627. doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2014.02.002

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Rickards, C. A., & Tzeng, Y.-C. (2014). Arterial pressure and cerebral blood flow variability: Friend or foe? A review. Frontiers in Physiology, 5, 120. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2014.00120

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Smirl, J. D., Haykowsky, M. J., Nelson, M. D., Tzeng, Y.-C., Marsden, K. R., Jones, H., & Ainslie, P. N. (2014). Relationship between cerebral blood flow and blood pressure in long-term heart transplant recipients. Hypertension, 64, 1314-1320. doi: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.114.04236

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Smirl, J. D., Tzeng, Y. C., Monteleone, B. J., & Ainslie, P. N. (2014). Influence of cerebrovascular resistance on the dynamic relationship between blood pressure and cerebral blood flow in humans. Journal of Applied Physiology, 116(12), 1614-1622. doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01266.2013

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Taylor, C. E., Willie, C. K., Ainslie, P. N., & Tzeng, Y.-C. (2014). Assessment of human baroreflex function using carotid ultrasonography: What have we learnt? Acta Physiologica, 211(2), 297-313. doi: 10.1111/apha.12302

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Tzeng, Y. C., MacRae, B. A., Ainslie, P. N., & Chan, G. S. H. (2014). Fundamental relationships between blood pressure and cerebral blood flow in humans. Journal of Applied Physiology, 117(9), 1037-1048. doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00366.2014

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Tzeng, Y.-C., & Ainslie, P. N. (2014). Blood pressure regulation IX: Cerebral autoregulation under blood pressure challenges. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 114(3), 545-559. doi: 10.1007/s00421-013-2667-y

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Willie, C. K., Tzeng, Y.-C., Fisher, J. A., & Ainslie, P. N. (2014). Integrative regulation of human brain blood flow. Journal of Physiology, 592(5), 841-859. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.2013.268953

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Horsman, H. M., Peebles, K. C., Galletly, D. C., & Tzeng, Y.-C. (2013). Cardiac baroreflex gain is frequency dependent: Insights from repeated sit-to-stand maneuvers and the modified Oxford Method. Applied Physiology, Nutrition, & Metabolism, 38(7), 753-759. doi: 10.1139/apnm-2012-0444

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Peebles, K. C., Horsman, H., & Tzeng, Y.-C. (2013). The influence of tobacco smoking on the relationship between pressure and flow in the middle cerebral artery in humans. PLoS ONE, 8(8), e72624. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072624

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Tan, C. O., Tzeng, Y.-C., Hamner, J. W., Tamisier, R., & Taylor, J. A. (2013). Alterations in sympathetic neurovascular transduction during acute hypoxia in humans. American Journal of Physiology: Regulatory, Integrative & Comparative Physiology, 304(11), R959-R965. doi: 10.1152/ajpregu.00071.2013

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Taylor, C. E., Willie, C. K., Atkinson, G., Jones, H., & Tzeng, Y.-C. (2013). Postural influences on the mechanical and neural components of the cardiovagal baroreflex. Acta Physiologica, 208(1), 66-73. doi: 10.1111/apha.12087

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Tzeng, Y.-C., & MacRae, B. A. (2013). Interindividual relationships between blood pressure and cerebral blood flow variability with intact and blunted cerebrovascular control. Journal of Applied Physiology, 114(7), 888-895. doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01388.2012

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Willie, C. K., Ainslie, P. N., Taylor, C. E., Eves, N. D., & Tzeng, Y.-C. (2013). Maintained cerebrovascular function during post-exercise hypotension. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 113(6), 1597-1604. doi: 10.1007/s00421-012-2578-3

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Ainslie, P. N., Lucas, S. J. E., Fan, J.-L., Thomas, K. N., Cotter, J. D., Tzeng, Y. C., & Burgess, K. R. (2012). Influence of sympathoexcitation at high altitude on cerebrovascular function and ventilatory control in humans. Journal of Applied Physiology, 113(7), 1058-1067. doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00463.2012

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Gelinas, J. C., Marsden, K. R., Tzeng, Y. C., Smirl, J. D., Smith, K. J., Willie, C. K., … Ainslie, P. N. (2012). Influence of posture on the regulation of cerebral perfusion. Aviation, Space, & Environmental Medicine, 83(8), 751-757. doi: 10.3357/asem.3269.2012

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Hamner, J. W., Tan, C. O., Tzeng, Y.-C., & Taylor, J. A. (2012). Cholinergic control of the cerebral vasculature in humans. Journal of Physiology, 590(24), 6343-6352. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.2012.245100

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Marsden, K. R., Haykowsky, M. J., Smirl, J. D., Jones, H., Nelson, M. D., Altamirano-Diaz, L. A., … Tzeng, Y. C., … Ainslie, P. N. (2012). Aging blunts hyperventilation-induced hypocapnia and reduction in cerebral blood flow velocity during maximal exercise. Age, 34(3), 725-735. doi: 10.1007/s11357-011-9258-9

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Peebles, K. C., Ball, O. G., MacRae, B. A., Horsman, H. M., & Tzeng, Y. C. (2012). Sympathetic regulation of the human cerebrovascular response to carbon dioxide. Journal of Applied Physiology, 113(5), 700-706. doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00614.2012

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Sin, P. Y. W., Webber, M. R., Galletly, D. C., & Tzeng, Y. C. (2012). Relationship between cardioventilatory coupling and pulmonary gas exchange. Clinical Physiology & Functional Imaging, 32(6), 476-480. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-097X.2012.01144.x

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Tzeng, Y. C., Ainslie, P. N., Cooke, W. H., Peebles, K. C., Willie, C. K., MacRae, B. A., … Horsman, H. M., & Rickards, C. A. (2012). Assessment of cerebral autoregulation: The quandary of quantification. American Journal of Physiology: Heart & Circulatory Physiology, 303(6), H658-H671. doi: 10.1152/ajpheart.00328.2012

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Willie, C. K., Macleod, D. B., Shaw, A. D., Smith, K. J., Tzeng, Y. C., Eves, N. D., … Ainslie, P. N. (2012). Regional brain blood flow in man during acute changes in arterial blood gases. Journal of Physiology, 590(14), 3261-3275. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.2012.228551

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Atkinson, G., Batterham, A. M., Jones, H., Taylor, C. E., Willie, C. K., & Tzeng, Y.-C. (2011). Appropriate within-subjects statistical models for the analysis of baroreflex sensitivity. Clinical Physiology & Functional Imaging, 31(1), 80-82. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-097X.2010.00974.x

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Bellapart, J., Chan, G. S. H., Tzeng, Y.-C., Ainslie, P. N., Dunster, K. R., Barnett, A. G., … Fraser, J. F. (2011). The effect of ventricular assist devices on cerebral blood flow and blood pressure fractality. Physiological Measurement, 32(9), 1361-1372. doi: 10.1088/0967-3334/32/9/001

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Bellapart, J., Chan, G. S., Tzeng, Y.-C., Ainslie, P., Barnett, A. G., Dunster, K. R., … Fraser, J. F. (2011). The effect of Ventricular Assist Devices on cerebral autoregulation: A preliminary study. BMC Anesthesiology, 11, 4. doi: 10.1186/1471-2253-11-4

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Chan, G. S. H., Ainslie, P. N., Willie, C. K., Taylor, C. E., Atkinson, G., Jones, H., … Tzeng, Y.-C. (2011). Contribution of arterial Windkessel in low-frequency cerebral hemodynamics during transient changes in blood pressure. Journal of Applied Physiology, 110(4), 917-925. doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01407.2010

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