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  • 1981 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Val Nolan is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States. Their primary field of study is Medicine, with a significant focus on several specialized subfields including Infectious Diseases, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Genetics, Epidemiology, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

Their research topics cover a range of health-related issues, particularly concentrating on Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life, Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders, Viral Gastroenteritis Research and Epidemiology, Iron Metabolism and Disorders, Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, and Emergency and Acute Care Studies.

Val Nolan has contributed to various publication venues, with frequent appearances in the following journals:

  • Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics
  • Pediatric Blood & Cancer
  • AJPM Focus
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise

Some notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Val Nolan include:

  • Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis), 2020, Birds of the World
  • Hydroxyurea Use After Transitions of Care Among Young Adults With Sickle Cell Disease and Tennessee Medicaid Insurance, 2021, JAMA Network Open (co-author)
  • Association of Radiology Findings with Etiology of Community Acquired Pneumonia among Children, 2023, The Journal of Pediatrics (co-author)
  • Association of masking policies with mask adherence and distancing during the SARS-COV-2 pandemic, 2022, American Journal of Infection Control (co-author)
  • Exposures Associated with Non-Typhoidal Salmonella Infections Caused by Newport, Javiana, and Mississippi Serotypes in Tennessee, 2013-2015: A Case-Case Analysis, 2020, Pathogens (co-author)

The scientist has collaborated frequently with a number of co-authors, including:

  • Jane S. Hankins
  • Matthew Smeltzer
  • Gregory T. Armstrong
  • Joacy G. Mathias

Val Nolan was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1981.

Best Publications

  • Adaptation, Exaptation, and Constraint: A Hormonal Perspective.

    Ellen D. Ketterson;Val Nolan

  • Hormones and life histories: an integrative approach.

    Ellen D. Ketterson;Val Nolan

  • The ecology and behavior of the Prairie warbler, Dendroica discolor

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  • Geographic Variation and Its Climatic Correlates in the Sex Ratio of Eastern-Wintering Dark-Eyed Juncos (Junco Hyemalis Hyemalis)

    Ellen D. Ketterson;Val Nolan

  • TESTOSTERONE AND AVIAN LIFE HISTORIES: EFFECTS OF EXPERIMENTALLY ELEVATED TESTOSTERONE ON BEHAVIOR AND CORRELATES OF FITNESS IN THE DARK-EYED JUNCO (JUNCO HYEMALIS)

    Ellen D. Ketterson;Val Nolan;Licia Wolf;Charles Ziegenfus

  • The evolution of differential bird migration

    Ellen D. Ketterson;Val Nolan

  • Testosterone in Females: Mediator of Adaptive Traits, Constraint on Sexual Dimorphism, or Both?

    E D Ketterson;V Nolan;Maria Sandell

  • Steroid hormones and immune function: experimental studies in wild and captive dark-eyed juncos (Junco hyemalis).

    Joseph M. Casto;Val Nolan;Ellen D. Ketterson

  • Phenotypic engineering: using hormones to explore the mechanistic and functional bases of phenotypic variation in nature

    Ellen D. Ketterson;Val Nolan;Michelle J. Cawthorn;Patricia G. Parker

  • Male Parental Behavior in Birds

    Ellen D. Ketterson;Val Nolan

  • Testosterone and avian life histories: The effect of experimentally elevated testosterone on corticosterone and body mass in dark-eyed juncos

    Ellen D Ketterson;Val Nolan;Licia Wolf;Charles Ziegenfus;Charles Ziegenfus;Charles Ziegenfus

  • Physiological effects on demography: a long-term experimental study of testosterone's effects on fitness.

    W. L. Reed;M. E. Clark;P. G. Parker;S. A. Raouf

  • TESTOSTERONE AFFECTS REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS BY INFLUENCING EXTRA-PAIR FERTILIZATIONS IN MALE DARK-EYED JUNCOS (AVES : JUNCO HYEMALIS)

    Samrrah A. Raouf;Patricia G. Parker;Ellen D. Ketterson;Val Nolan

  • Acorn mast drives long-term dynamics of rodent and songbird populations

    Ethan D. Clotfelter;Amy B. Pedersen;Jack A. Cranford;Nilam Ram

  • Testosterone and mate choice in the dark-eyed junco ☆

    David A Enstrom;Ellen D Ketterson;Val Nolan

  • Mate choice based on static versus dynamic secondary sexual traits in the dark-eyed junco

    Jennifer A. Hill;David A. Enstrom;Ellen D. Ketterson;Val Nolan

  • Paternal influence on growth and survival of dark-eyed junco young: do parental males benefit?

    Licia Wolf;Ellen D. Ketterson;Val Nolan

  • Effects of testosterone on spatial activity in free-ranging male dark-eyed juncos, Junco hyemalis

    C.Ray Chandler;Ellen D. Ketterson;Val Nolan;Charles Ziegenfus

  • Consequences of elevating plasma testosterone in females of a socially monogamous songbird: evidence of constraints on male evolution?

    Ethan D Clotfelter;Dawn M O'Neal;Jacqueline M Gaudioso;Joseph M Casto

  • CORRELATIONAL SELECTION LEADS TO GENETIC INTEGRATION OF BODY SIZE AND AN ATTRACTIVE PLUMAGE TRAIT IN DARK-EYED JUNCOS

    Joel W. McGlothlin;Patricia G. Parker;Val Nolan;Ellen D. Ketterson

  • The Role of Migration and Winter Mortality in the Life History of a Temperate-Zone Migrant, the Dark-Eyed Junco, as Determined from Demographic Analyses of Winter Populations

    Ellen D. Ketterson;Val Nolan

  • Testosterone and avian life histories: effects of experimentally elevated testosterone on prebasic molt and survival in male dark-eyed juncos

    Val Nolan;Ellen D. Ketterson;Charles Ziegenfus;Daniel P. Cullen

Frequent Co-Authors

Ellen D. Ketterson
Ellen D. Ketterson Indiana University
Ethan D. Clotfelter
Ethan D. Clotfelter Amherst College
Patricia G. Parker
Patricia G. Parker University of Missouri–St. Louis
Gregory F. Ball
Gregory F. Ball University of Maryland, College Park
Charles F. Thompson
Charles F. Thompson Illinois State University
Daniel A. Cristol
Daniel A. Cristol William & Mary
Fernando Nottebohm
Fernando Nottebohm Rockefeller University
Michael Carey
Michael Carey University of California, Los Angeles
Ken Yasukawa
Ken Yasukawa Beloit College
Nilam Ram
Nilam Ram Stanford University

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