After receiving my BS in Biology from Cornell University, my MS in Physiology from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and my Ph.D. in Physiology and Biophysics from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, I undertook postdoctoral training at the University of Washington in NMR spectroscopy and muscle metabolism. In 1993 I joined the University of Missouri School of Medicine as a tenure track faculty and was promoted to full professor in 2005. From 2007 until 2020 I was...
After receiving my BS in Biology from Cornell University, my MS in Physiology from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and my Ph.D. in Physiology and Biophysics from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, I undertook postdoctoral training at the University of Washington in NMR spectroscopy and muscle metabolism. In 1993 I joined the University of Missouri School of Medicine as a tenure track faculty and was promoted to full professor in 2005. From 2007 until 2020 I was a department chair in 3 colleges at the University of Missouri. In my 30 years at Mizzou I have taught medical students in small group problem based learning in most blocks of the curriculum but notably the biochemistry/cell biology block, the physiology block and the neuroscience/endocrinology block. I also lecture on topics in metabolism. In addition to 30 years of teaching medical students, I was a consultant for the College Board for ~15 years and gave numerous workshops and institutes aimed at teaching High School Biology teachers how to teach AP Biology. I served on the planning committee for the AP Annual Conference for 3 years. I have some experience teaching undergraduates in an honors version of an introduction to nutrition course as well as in a nutrition and exercise study abroad (to Italy and to Japan). I have taught MS and PhD students in general physiology and metabolic physiology for most of my 30+ years at Mizzou in formal lecture and discussion formats.
My passion is small group and individual teaching with a Socratic style. I decided to accept the position at Mizzou because in 1993 they were starting a full PBL med school curriculum. One on one tutoring for undergraduate or medical school courses in physiology is my forte. With my AP Biology background I also do well teaching at tutoring much of that material. Finally, my career has been in cellular metabolic physiology and hence I have studies glycolysis, glycogenolysis, gluconeogenesis, mitochondrial metabolism etc for over 40 years.
