HONORS:

• TAMU Chapter Sigma Xi Science Communicator of the Year, 2006
  National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Training Grant, 1999
• Becton Dickinson Educational Grant, 1997
• American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship, 1995

ACTIVE FUNDING:

• National Institutes of Health Quantitative Career Award
  Pulsatile Hemodynamics and Carotid Stenting
  PI, $636,779 total costs
• American Heart Association Beginning Grant-in-Aid
  Matching supply to demand: impact of structural adaptation of vascular networks on autoregulation
  PI, $124,00 total costs
• National Science Foundation Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Summer Institute
  Vascular Bioengineering Summer Institute
  PI, $600,000 total costs
• Training Program to Increase Diversity in Health-Related Research
  Biologists and Engineers Advancing Diversity in Research (BE-A-DR)
  PI, $435,000 total costs
• National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site
  REU Site: Mechanobiology of the Bat Wing Microvasculature
  PI, $265,000 total costs
• National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Teachers Site
  Bioengineers And Teachers Working the Internet, Networks and Gemeinschaft: Research Experiences for Teachers (BATWING RET)
  PI, $400,000 total costs
   

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

• Sigma Xi
• American Physiological Society
• Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine
• IEEE/Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
• Biomedical Engineering Society
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers

SELECTED RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS:

• Quick, C. M., H. L. Baldick, N. Safabakhsh, T. J. Lenihan, J. K-J. Li, H. W. Weizsäcker, and A. Noordergraaf. Unstable radii of muscular blood vessels. Am. J. Physiol. 271 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 40): H2669-H2676, 1996.
• Berger, D. S., K. Vlasica, C. M. Quick, K. A. Robinson, and S. G. Shroff. Ejection has both positive and negative effects on left ventricular isovolumic relaxation. Am. J. Physiol. 273(Heart Circ. Physiol. 42): H2696-H2707, 1997.
• Quick, C. M., D. S. Berger, and A. Noordergraaf. Apparent arterial compliance. Am. J. Physiol. 274 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 43): H1393-H1404, 1998.
• Quick, C. M., D. S. Berger, D. A. Hettrick, and A. Noordergraaf. True arterial system compliance derived from apparent arterial compliance. Ann. Biomed. Eng. 28: 291-301, 2000.
• Quick, C. M., W. L. Young, E. F. Leonard, S. Joshi, E. Gao, and T. Hashimoto. Model of structural and functional adaptation of small conductance vessels to arterial hypotension. Am. J. Physiol. Heart Circ. Physiol. 279: H1645-H1653, 2000.
• Hashimoto, T., C. W. Emala, S. Joshi, R. Mesa-Tejada, C. M. Quick, L. Feng. A. Libow, D. A. Marchuk, and W. L. Young. Abnormal of tie-2 and vascular endothelial growth factor receptor expression in human cerebral arteriovenous malformations. Neurosurgery 47: 910-919, 2000.
• Quick, C. M., W. L. Young, and A. Noordergraaf. Infinite number of solutions to the hemodynamic inverse problem. Am. J. Physiol. Heart Circ. Physiol. 280: H1472-H1479, 2001.
• Quick, C. M., D. S. Berger, and A. Noordergraaf. Constructive and destructive addition of forward and reflected arterial pulse waves. Am. J. Physiol. Heart Circ. Physiol. 280: H1519-H1527, 2001.
• Hashimoto, T., R. Mesa-Tejada, C. M. Quick, A. W. Bollen, S. Joshi, J. Pile-Spellman, M. T. Lawton, and W. L. Young. Evidence of increased endothelial cell turnover in brain arteriovenous malformations. Neurosurgery 49: 124-132, 2001.
• Quick, C. M., T. Hashimoto, and W. L. Young. Lack of flow regulation may explain the development of arteriovenous malformations. Neurol. Res. 23: 641-644, 2001.
• Quick, C. M., E. F. Leonard, and W. L. Young. Adaptation of the cerebral circulation to brain arteriovenous malformations increases feeding artery pressure and decreases regional hypotension Neurosurgery 50: 167-175, 2002.
• Quick, C. M., D. S. Berger, and A. Noordergraaf. Arterial pulse wave reflection as feedback. IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 49: 440-445, 2002.
• Hashimoto T., Young W. L., Prohovnik I., Gupta D. K., Ostapkovich N. D., Ornstein E., Halim A. X., Quick C. M.: Clinical report; increased cerebral blood flow after brain arteriovenous malformation resection is substantially independent of changes in cardiac output. J. Neurosurg. Anesthesiol. 14: 204-208, 2002.
• Quick, C. M., D. J. James, K. Ning, S. Joshi, A. X. Halim, T. Hashimoto, and W. L. Young. Relationship of nidal vessel radius and wall thickness to brain arteriovenous malformation hemorrhage. Neurol. Res. 24: 495-500, 2002.
• Jou, L. D., C. M. Quick, W. L. Young, M.T. Lawton  R. Higashida A. Martin, and D. Saloner. Computational approach to quantifying hemodynamic forces in giant cerebral aneurysms. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 24: 1804-1810, 2003.
• Stewart R. H., S. J. Allen, C. M. Quick, D. A. Rohn, C. S. Cox, and G. A. Laine. Young. Effect of venous air embolization on pulmonary microvascular protein permeability. Microcirculation 11: 409-44, 2004.
• Quick, C. M., M. W. Mohiuddin, G. A. Laine and A. Noordergraaf. The arterial system pressure-volume loop. Physiol Meas. 26: N29-N35, 2005.
• Quick, C. M., D. S. Berger, R. H. Stewart, G. A. Laine, C. J. Hartley, and A. Noordergraaf. Resolving the hemodynamic inverse problem. Neurol. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 53: 361-368, 2006. 
• Stewart, R. H., C. M. Quick, D. C. Zawieja, C. S. Cox, S. J. Allen, and G. A. Laine. Pulmonary air embolization inhibits lung lymph flow by increasing lymphatic outflow pressure.  Lymphat Res Biol. 4:18-22, 2006.