Here with some of his favorite equations on the board, Dr. Shepherd is shown holding one of his inventions, the AVOXimeter®, the most widely used oximeter in cardiac catheterization labs.

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​"During my forty-year career in academia, my colleagues and I developed educational software that we used to teach physiology to medical students, graduate students, nursing students, dental students, and others. Now that I'm retired, I want to make sure that my educational software does not go to waste, to update it to run on state-of-the-art devices like the iPad, and to distribute it as widely and as inexpensively as possible."



A.P. (Pete) Shepherd, Ph.D.

Professor of Physiology (retired)
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio