Sadis Matalon, Ph.D., ScD, FAPS, the Alice McNeal Endowed Chair in Anesthesiology and a distinguished professor at the UAB Heersink School of Medicine Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, is the 2024 recipient of the American Physiological Society’s (APS) Physiology in Perspective: The Walter B. Cannon Award.
The Cannon lecture is the most prestigious award that APS bestows and recognizes the lifetime achievement of an outstanding physiological scientist and APS member. Matalon’s lecture, “The Long Road to Ithaca: A Physiologist’s Journey,” was presented at the American Physiology Summit in Baltimore on Thursday, April 4, 2024.