Dr. Sieck is a past president of the American Physiological Society and Editor-in-Chief of both the Journal of Applied Physiology and Physiology, premier research journals. Dr. Sieck is a Vernon F. and Earline D. Endowed Professor and Distinguished Investigator in the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine and Science and a consultant in the Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering with joint appointments in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine and the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Medicine. Dr. Sieck's research focuses on respiratory muscle physiology and cell signaling. He has published more than 450 peer-reviewed papers, and his research has been continuously funded by multiple grants from the NIH for more than 40 years.