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AACA Election - 2009
This page functions to to keep you informed on the annual AACA election. The candidates listed below were solicited to serve by the AACA Nominating Committee under the Chairmanship of Ken Jones at OSU. During the 30 day period starting March 13, 2009 - April 13, 2009, any interested individual may petition to have their name added to the ballot by submitting a letter of intent and having 15 members forward their letter of nomination and support to the Secretary (brmacp@uky.edu) - see Article VII, Section 2 of the Bylaws posted below. After April 15th, this page - with all individuals interested in running - will be linked to the official ballot for the 2009 election. President-Elect (you will vote for 1) Peter Abrahams (Warwick Medical School)
Statement: If elected to the post I would bring a deep knowledge of the AACA since its foundation as I was a founding member of both BACA and AACA and I have only missed a couple of meetings in 25 years and have regularly presented new and innovative material from the platform whilst also providing the association with a fun photographic record of all the meetings. I am a passionate, enthusiastic clinical anatomist who still finds time to practise medicine twice a week, as well as run a medical school anatomy unit. I would continue to encourage a greater involvement of young clinicians into the organisation as I have often done by bringing them to the AACA - in fact one of those young men is now a plastic surgeon and section editor of the real Gray’s Anatomy. I would hope to encourage our membership to widen to encompass paramedical professions especially young radiologists, physical therapists etc. I feel that future meetings would be best held on university campuses as this allows more time for professional interaction and less distraction by the bright lights of a big city. Through my personal international connections I would hope to make the AACA a more global centre for research and teaching discussion. It would be a privilege and an honour to serve the AACA and make the zenith of my career as a teaching and practising clinical anatomist.
Anne Agur (University of Toronto)
Anne is actively involved in both teaching and research of anatomy. She has taught Anatomy, Histology, Neuroanatomy and Embryology for many years, and is presently course co-director of the Medical Anatomy Course and director of the Physical and Occupational Therapy Anatomy courses. She is a member of the faculty of the Brain and Behaviour course for medical students and also teaches residents from a wide variety of disciplines including Physiatry and Neurology. Anne has participated/coordinated over 80 continuing education courses, including the post graduate course at the AACA 25th Anniversary Meeting in Toronto. She is currently an editor of “Grant’s Atlas of Anatomy” and co-author of “Essential Clinical Anatomy” and “Clinically Oriented Anatomy”. She has won numerous teaching awards and was twice the recipient the highest teaching award in the Faculty of Medicine, the W.T. Aikins Award for individual teaching performance and also received the SAC-APUS Teaching award which is a University wide award sponsored by the undergraduate students at the University of Toronto. Anne is married with two children. She is actively involved in the Estonian community in Toronto as a Girl Guide leader and Treasurer of the Estonian Scouts and Guides Sponsors Association of Toronto. Statement: My vision for the AACA in 2009 and beyond is an Association with effective and transparent operations, good communication between the Council and our membership, increased support and promotion of our journal “Clinical Anatomy” and enhanced growth encompassing a wider and younger field of anatomists and clinicians including students. I would like to see more involvement of the membership such as to help set priorities for annual initiatives. This can be carried out in brainstorming sessions at annual meetings where members can provide input in areas of current interests or issues. For the enhanced operation of the association, it is important to build on the current efficient administrative unit and evolve the responsibilities of our professional staff. We need to come up with new ideas to support and promote our Journal. It is our window to the outside scientific world. Finally, it is critical to the existence of our Association that we increase and broaden our membership to include a wider field of anatomists and clinicians in areas such as PT, OT, and MD-s of all ages. Special focus, however, needs to be directed to attracting and keeping young practitioners in our Association. This can be done by involving them early on in committee work and service responsibilities. Increased student participation in our Annual Meetings is another means to expose the values of our Association to our next generation of membership. If elected to be your President, it will be an honor and privilege for me to lead the Association, to serve you the membership, and to work hard to further strengthen our Association.
Special Councilor - Anatomical Sciences (you will vote for 1) Angela McArthur (University of Minnesota)
Statement: If elected to the office of Special Councilor for Anatomical Services, I would work energetically to be responsive to the needs of the Anatomical Services SIG members and work diligently to represent the membership on the AACA Council. I regularly network with the staff of many medical school donation programs and feel that I understand the current issues impacting many of us working in these programs. My goal would be to help make the Anatomical Services SIG a collective voice, assist the members in connecting with each other and be responsive to those seeking my attention. Many of us have limited resources individually but through collaborative efforts, we could work towards our collective goals and be more influential in the process.
Brandi Schmitt (University of California System)
I have a Bachelor of Science from Greenwich University and received a Master of Science in Forensic Science from the University of New Haven. I hold licenses for Embalmer and Funeral Director in the State of California. My academic interests include institutional whole-body donation programs, mass fatality response and management, and the facilitation of clinical, surgical and forensic research and education. I am on faculty in UCD’s Forensic Science Graduate Program and an active member of anatomical and other advisory boards at each UC medical school as well as for the American River College Funeral Science Program. I am a member of the North American Forensic Entomology Association (NAFEA) and a K9 handler for the California Rescue Dog Association (CARDA) - a non-profit search & rescue organization affiliated with the State of California Office of Emergency Services. I have been the AACA Anatomical Services Committee (ASC) co-chair since 2005. I have planned meetings, symposia and a Saturday course on behalf of the ASC for the association’s annual meetings and was an ASC Member at Large (2002 – 2005). I am proud to have been active with the ASC for more than eight years. Councilor-at-Large (you will vote for 2) Brion Benninger (Oregon Health Sciences University)
Statement: I would like to thank the Nominating Committee for giving me the opportunity to represent the AACA. It would be an honor to represent the members and serve the cause of the Association. As a councilor, I would seek to expand the organization and membership by recruiting more clinicians who are interested in clinical anatomy education and research. I would create a network with other clinical professional associations to promote clinical anatomy and our Association. I believe I can help bridge the gap between basic and clinical sciences with my experience as an educator and translational researcher of clinical anatomy.
Patricia Brewer (University of Texas, San Antonio)
Statement: I have been an anatomist for 25 years, but I discovered the AACA only recently, having been a member since 2005. I have attended the annual meetings, and presented the GATEways (Gross Anatomy Teaching Enhancement) project in 2007. I have come to realize that this is the organization where anatomy teaching professionals come together and advance the profession. I would be honored to be a part of the Council and take a leadership role in moving our profession forward. I would bring to the position of Councilor-at-Large experience as both a faculty member and an administrator and would look forward to enhancing existing initiatives in the AACA. I would also like to bring more allied health anatomy faculty into the AACA, as I think that they are often unaware of the value that membership in the AACA could bring to their professional development.
Carol Lomneth (University of Nebraska Medical Center)
Statement: I have benefitted greatly from my association with AACA and I would like to see the organization continue to thrive as a lead organization for the advancement of anatomical education and research. As councilor I would work to continue to provide high quality programs that directly benefit our members. I believe the health of our organization is dependent on an active membership and I would work to encourage additional membership as well as promote greater involvement of our current membership. As a member of the Council, I would also use my experience from across different medical disciplines as well as throughout the different levels of medical education to continue to promote the science of clinical anatomy.
Lonie Salkowski (University of Wisconsin)
Statement: I have been enriched by being a member of the AACA with knowledge, friendship, support and collaboration with colleagues with similar educational goals and interests. I have served as a member of the bylaws committee, education special interest group and organized the AACA polo shirt fundraiser in 2008. The bylaws committee offered me the opportunity to better understand the values and structure of the association. As a Councilor-at-Large, I will continue to promote the philosophies of the association and take seriously the opportunity to serve and give back to the association. Students are our future and this organization has much to offer them. I believe we should promote and encourage student involvement in the association. Article VII - Nominations and Elections Section 2. Nomination by Petition. During the month of March, members may petition for additional candidates to be added to the ballot. Such nomination petitions may consist of either a single document or separate letters. To qualify for nomination by petition, each candidate must be an Active Full Member and have the support of at least 15 Full Members in good standing. All petitions and/or letters of nomination plus a letter from the nominee indicating his or her willingness to be a candidate must be received by the Association Secretary before midnight Eastern Time (GMT minus 5 hours) of April 13th. When additional valid nominations have been received from the membership, the Association Secretary shall post a revised list of the candidates for each position subject to election and other such supportive materials to the Association's website by April 15th. |
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Biography: I trained as a medic in London after Peace Corps teaching (VSO) in the jungles of Borneo. I intended to become a surgeon but was side-tracked into anatomy after writing “Clinical Anatomy of Practical Procedures”. This led to a British Fulbright Scholarship to the University of Iowa. I was Clinical Anatomist at UCL (London)for 15 years and then held the same post at The University of Cambridge before moving to Warwick in 2007. I am a Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge and also do two days as an NHS family practitioner. I worked as an anatomical consultant for WHO, and have examined and lectured doctors and surgeons worldwide. Since 1993 I’ve been a part-time professor at St. Georges University, Grenada where I’m known for my passions of scuba, jungle hiking and lecturing on the history of art. Also internationally since 2005 I have been associated with Pretoria University. In 1997 I was awarded the BMA electronic publishing prize for Interactive Skeleton CD-ROM. In 2005 with Craven and Lumley won The Richard Asher Prize from the Royal Society of Medicine, London for the best new medical text book . My major educational contributions include the McMinn “Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy” now in its 6th edition and with Weir “Imaging Atlas of Human Anatomy” in its 4th edition. In 2006 the AACA recognized my contributions as its “Honoured Member - for authorship of anatomical textbooks and electronic resources in many languages” In 2007 I moved to Warwick post–graduate medical school where I was awarded the top teaching award (WATE) in my first year. Last year I received an educational grant of 2.0 million dollars from government with which I have recently set up a Surgical Training Cadaver Operative Suite and plastinate teaching centre.
Biography: Anne Agur is a tenured full professor in the Division of Anatomy, Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto. She has been a faculty member since 1978 and presently has cross appointments/graduate appointments in eight departments including the Departments of Physical and Occupational Therapy, the School of Dentistry and the Division of Biomedical Communications. Anne has been an active member of the AACA since 1987 and is a regular presenter at the AACA annual meetings. She is currently serving as an Editor of the AACA Journal “Clinical Anatomy” and in 2008 was the Host of the AACA 25th Anniversary Meeting in Toronto.
Biography: Angela McArthur has been the Assistant Director for the Anatomy Bequest Program and a faculty member in Mortuary Science Program in the Medical School at the University of Minnesota since 2002. She is working on her Masters in Biological Sciences with emphasis on Anatomy Education and has her B.S. in Mortuary Science from the University of Minnesota.
Angela is the Chair of the Minnesota Commission on the Procurement and Use of Anatomical Donations and is currently involved in drafting legislation to create consistent and transparent whole body donation regulations which will protect the public’s trust in whole body donation, protect public health and protect professional integrity. Angela is a member of the American Association of Tissue Banks and has been asked to review the draft standards being written for whole body donation programs.
Angela has presented at multiple national conferences and has been interviewed by local, national and international media regarding whole body donation topics.
Biography: I am the Director of Anatomical Services for the University of California Office of the President (UCOP). My role at UC includes coordination and standardization of the university’s five whole-body donation programs, recommending guidelines and policy for the ethical acquisition, use, management and disposition of anatomical materials used for education and research, as well as ensuring compliance with university policies and providing regulatory advisement for relevant initiatives. I was Interim Director of UCLA’s Donated Body Program during 2006 & 2007. Prior to my appointment in UCOP’s division of Health Sciences and Services, I worked for eight years as Donated Body Program Director at UC Davis. I came to UC in 1997 from Loma Linda University’s Bodies for Science Program.
Biography: In 1991, graduated from Leicester University Medical School (England). Completed a surgical residency, which included a year with Sir Harold Ellis at Guy’s hospital teaching and conducting clinical anatomy research. Sports Medicine is my clinical interest and I received a Masters in 1997 from Nottingham University. Went on to be a Sports Medicine Physician to national and international teams and a track physician at Donnington Park Race Circuit. Taught students and surgical residents clinical anatomy at Leicester, Nottingham and Guy’s Medical and Dental schools. Received teaching awards from each institution and then accepted a position at Oregon Health & Sciences University in 2000 to teach clinical anatomy and develop a Stroke machine. Received yearly teaching excellence awards from students of the medical, dental and allied health schools at OHSU.
Academic positions in the Medical, Dental, and Allied Health schools has provided me with a depth of experiences to serve the Association. This experience includes curriculum development, teaching, collaborating and examining medical, dental and PA students as well as surgical residents. I have gained valuable insights through my interactions with students, researchers, clinicians and patients from the different programs in the United Kingdom, Caribbean and the United States.
Biography: I received my Ph.D. in Anatomy from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, Maryland in 1984 (where I had the spectacular good fortune to be taught by two of anatomy’s finest, Dr. Russell Woodburne and Dr. Carlton Smith). After receiving my doctorate, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Eye Institute at the National Institutes of Health. My undergraduate degree was in Psychology from Michigan State University (1975).
Since finishing my postdoctoral fellowship in 1985, I have held faculty positions at several universities and have been teaching gross anatomy to undergraduates, medical students and most recently, allied health students. It has been my honor to have been recognized several times during my career with teaching awards. I was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor in 2006 in the School of Health Professions at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. In 2007 I was promoted to Assistant Dean for Student Affairs. Even though I have assumed a large administrative role (one that I love as it focuses on students!), I still teach over 250 contact hours a year as the course director and sole instructor in two human gross anatomy courses for physical therapy students and physician assistant studies students. I also participate in gross anatomy for occupational therapy students and graduate students in biomedical engineering. I am very involved in the use of technology in the classroom and the anatomy lab, and have received several grants to support the development of technology teaching initiatives. I have been a reviewer and editor of several textbooks, to include the 4th edition of Moore and Dalley’s Clinically Oriented Anatomy.
Biography: Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska. B.S. (Biology) University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, (1990); Ph.D. (Anatomy and Cell Biology) University of Cincinnati College of Medicine (1989).
Teaching is my primary responsibility at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. I have been teaching undergraduate medical gross anatomy and histology for the last 14 and 13 years respectively. I am currently co-director for the medical undergraduate gross anatomy course and director of a human anatomy course for students in radiation science technology, pharmacy, and post baccalaureate programs. In 2003 I initiated a lightly-embalmed donor program for the Nebraska Anatomical Board, and for the past 6 years I have been involved in the development of courses for senior medical students and residents utilizing the lightly-embalmed donors. I established and direct the Advanced Anatomy Laboratory for Research, Education, and Clinical Skills at UNMC which promotes the use of lightly embalmed cadavers for educational and clinical research. Teaching awards include: 2008 University of Nebraska Medical Center Outstanding Teacher Award; 2005 Golden Apple and Hirschman Teaching Award for the Pre-Clinical Years; 2004 Alvin Earle Outstanding Teacher Award; and 2004 class of 1962 Basic Science Outstanding Teacher Award.
In addition to serving on numerous educational committees at UNMC, I have also been a member of the State Anatomical Board of Nebraska since 2001. My role on this committee is to oversee the activities of the Anatomical Board which is housed on UNMC’s campus. In 2006 I co-wrote UNMC’s Appropriate Use of Human Anatomical Material Policy which was presented at the 2007 AACA meeting in Henderson, Nevada.
I have been a member of AACA since 1996, have reviewed articles for both Clinical Anatomy and Anatomical Sciences Education. I am currently a member of AACA’s Career Development Committee and the By-Laws Committee.
Biography: MD, Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), Milwaukee, WI in 1991. Nuclear Medicine Residency at St. Luke’s Medical Center in Milwaukee, WI and Radiology Residency and Women’s Imaging Fellowship at MCW. Academic radiology career began at MCW in 1998. In 2005, became an Associate Professor in Radiology at the University of WI School of Medicine & Public Health (UW). In 2007 received an affiliate appointment in the UW Department of Anatomy and in 2009 the Medical Advisor for the UW School of Radiology Technology.
I have been teaching students radiologic anatomy for over 10 years. At MCW I was a member of the Curriculum and Evaluation Committee and Faculty Council. At UW I continue involvement in medical student education in the Year-1 Course Directors and Anatomy Task Force Committees, and the UW Department of Radiology Education Committee. While at MCW I received the Innovative Educational Project Award in 2003 and the Edward J. Lennon Endowed Clinical Teaching Award in 2004 for my involvement in radiology anatomy teaching to medical students.
At MCW, I taught and directed the radiology lectures in the Clinical Human Anatomy course. At UW I introduced a computer-based radiologic anatomy curriculum into the first year medical student anatomy course. This material has expanded into anatomy classes for PT/OT students, fourth year medical student electives and the graduate medical physics students.
I am interested in investigating how students learn and to adapt curriculum that best serves all learners. I have done several grant-funded projects in this area and have presented papers on this research at a prior AACA meeting and at the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) meeting.
Beyond my involvement in the AACA, I am very active in the ARRS. I currently hold offices within the Scientific Program Subcommittee in Breast Imaging and the Review Course Section Chair.