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A number of our membership have graciously consented to act as a mentor for younger anatomists developing their academic career. The information they have submitted reflects the areas they feel comfortable in providing guidance on. Please feel free to contact them.

Name: Peter Abrahams,  MBBS FRCS (Ed) FRCR DO (Hon)
Title: Professor of Clinical Anatomy
Institution: Kigezi International School of Medicine
Address: 30 Regent Terrace, Cambridge CB2 1AA   England
Email: pha1000@cam.ac.uk
Research Interests: practical procedures, radiological surgical anatomy, all sorts of projects related to anatomy of procedures
Teaching interests: gross and clinical anatomy for medical students and residents in surgery/some radiology residents

Name: Anne Agur, PhD
Title: Associate Professor
Institution: University of Toronto
Address: Division of Anatomy, Department of Surgery, 1 King';s Circle, Tornoto, ON, Canada
Email:  anne.agur@utoronto.ca
Phone: 416-978-8855
Research Interests: musculoskeletal function/modeling, neurosurgical procedures (anatomical aspects) medical imaging (anatomical correlation)
Teaching interests:  gross anatomy, embryology, histology, neuroanatomy

Name: David Bolender, PhD
Title: Associate Professor
Institution: Medical College of Wisconsin
Address: Dept Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy, 8701 Watertown Plank Rd, Milwaukee,   WI   53226
Email:  bolender@MCW.edu
Research Interests: animation of human embryonic development, heart development
Teaching interests: human development, clinical human anatomy, cell and tissue biology

Name: Stephen Carmichael
Title: Professor and Chair Emeritus
Institution: Mayo Clinic
Address: Rochester, MN
Email: Carmichael.stephen@mayo.edu
Research interests: 
Teaching interests: gross anatomy, embryology, histology

Name: Rich W. Clough, PhD
Title: Professor of Anatomy
Institution: Southern Illinois University School of Medicine/Carbondale
Address: SIUC, Life Sciences III, Carbondale   IL   62901
Email: rclough@siumed.edu
Research Interests: epilepsy, neuroanatomy, traumatic brain injury, immunohistochemistry, tissue culture (organotypic and dispersed cell techniques), neural transplantation, immediate early-gene expression tract-tracing neuroanatomy
Teaching interests: neuroscience/anatomy, gross anatomy, embryology

Name: Art Dalley, PhD
Title: Professor
Institution: Vanderbilt Univ
Address: Cell Biology, Medical Center North, Nashville, TN 37125
Email: art.dalley@vanderbilt.edu
Research Interests: clinically applied anatomy, anatomy education
Teaching interests: gross anatomy

Name: Bob DePhilip, PhD
Title: Associate Professor
Institution: Ohio State University
Address: Division of Anatomy, 271B Hamilton Hall, Columbus,   OH 43210
Email: dephilip@osu.edu
Research interests: clinical anatomy
Teaching interests: gross anatomy, histology

Name: Bertha Escobar-Poni
Title: Assistant Professor
Institution: Loma Linda University
Address: Dept Pathology & Human Anatomy, Anatomy Division, Loma Linda, CA   92408
Email: bescobar@som.llu.edu
Research Interests: pelvis-perineum, collaborative learning
Teaching interests: anatomy, pathology

Name: Craig Goodmurphy, PhD
Title: Assistant Professor
Institution:  East Virginia Medical School   
Address:   Virginia Beach, VA  
Phone:  
Email:  goodmucw@evms.edu  
Research Interests: anatomical validation of electromyography needle placement

Name: Alan Green, MSFRCA
Title: retired
Institution:     
Address: 60A The Close Norwich, Norfolk
Email:  alan@wggeston.lslife.uk
Research Interests:
Teaching interests:  

Name: John Hansen, PhD
Title: Professor & Associate Dean
Institution: University of Rochester Medical Center
Address: Rochester, NY   14642
Email: john_hansen@urmc.edu
Research Interests: neuroscience, medical education, PBL
Teaching interests: histology, gross anatomy, physiology

Name: Todd Hoagland, PhD
Title: Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Institution: Boston University School of Medicine
Address: Anatomy & Neurobiology, 715 Albany Street, L-1004, Boston, MA 02118
Email: thoaglan@bu.edu
Resaerch Interests: cerebraovascular hypertension, medical education, gross anatomy
Teaching Interests: medical gross anatomy, embryology, craniofacial development and anatomy, teaching in the biomedical sciences, genetic counselling

Name: Subramanian Krishnan
Title: Professor & Chair
Institution: University of Malaya
Address: Dept of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Email: subra@um.edu.my
Research Interests: neuroanatomy-factors achieving motor neuron development
Teaching interests: head & neck anatomy, neuroanatomy

Name: Carol Lomneth
Title: Assistant Professor
Institution: University of Nebraska Medical Center
Address: 68198 Nebraska Medical Center , Omaha, NE
Phone: 402-559-7279
Fax: 402-559-3400
Email: clomneth@unmc.edu
Research Areas: medical education
Teaching Areas: gross anatomy and histology

Name: Mario Loukas, MD, PhD
Title: AssistantProfessor
Institution: St George's University
Address: Grenada   WI
Email: edsg2000@yahoo.com
Research Interests: cardiac anatomy
Teaching interests: 

Name: Scott Lozanoff, PhD  
Title: Professor & Chair
Institution: University of Hawai'I School of Medicine
Address: Dept Anatomy, 1off@hawaii.edu960 East-West Road
Email: lozanoff@hawaii.edu
Research Interests: craniofacial development/gene mapping, teaching innovation
Teaching interests: gross anatomy, embryology

Name: Neil S. Norton, PhD
Title: Associate Professor of Oral Biology & Pharmacology
Institution: Creighton University
Address: 2500 California Plaza, Omaha, NE 68178
Email: nsnorton@creighton.edu
Research interests: anatomical variation, educational outcomes research, hepatic encephalopathy
Teaching interests: gross anatomy (esp head & neck), neuroanatomy, neuropharmacology

Name: Todd Olson, PhD
Title: Professor
Institution: Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Address: 1300 Morris Park Ave, Bronx, NY
Email: olson@aecom.yu.edu
Research Interests: clinical anatomy
Teaching interests: gross anatomy, embryology, biomechanics

Name: Doug Paulsen, PhD
Title: Professor of Anatomy & Neurobiology
Institution: Morehouse School of Medicine
Address: 720 Westview Drive, SW, Atlanta, GA   30310-1495
Email: Paulsen@msm.edu
Research Interests: limb development, skeletogenesis
Teaching interests: histology, embryology, some gross anatomy

Name: Wojciech Pawlina, MD
Title: Associate Professor and Chair
Institution: Mayo Clinic
Address: Rochester, MN
Email: pawlina.wojciech@mayo.edu
Research interests: 
Teaching interests: anatomy, histology, embryology

Name: David Porta, PhD
Title: Chairman
Institution: Bellarmine University
Address: Dept Biology,   2001 Newburg Road, Louisville   KY   40205
Email: dporta@bellarmine.edu
Research Interests: trauma biomechanics
Teaching interests: anatomy & physiology, gross anatomy

Name: Ameed Raoof, MD
Title: Assistant Professor
Institution: University of Michigan Medical School
Address: 3808 MSII Bldg, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0608
Email: ameed@umich.edu
Research Interests: effective teaching of anatomy, plastination
Teaching interests: gross anatomy, neuroanatomy

Name: Rusty Reeves, OhD
Title: Associate Professor  
Institution: University of North Texsas Health Science Center
Address: 3500 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth   TX   76107
Email: rustyr@hsc.unt.edu
Research Interests: science education outreach programs
Teaching interests: I teach in the medical, graduate and PA Program,   Classes taught - anatomy, histology, scientific communications, tools for teaching science

Name: Lawrence Ross, MD, PhD
Title: Adjunct Professor
Institution: University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Address: 
Email: Lawrence.ross@uth.tmc.edu
Research Interests: clinical anatomy
Teaching interests: gross anatomy, embryology

Name: Dale W. Saxon, PhD
Title: Associate Prof of Anatomy & Cell Biology
Institution: Indiana University
Address: Evansville Center for Medical Education, 8600 University Blvd, Evansville   IN   47712
Email: dsaxon@IUPUI.edu
Research Interests:  sensory system (vestibular & trigeminal)
Teaching interests:
gross anatomy, histology, neuroanatomy  

Name: R. Bruce Shack, MD
Title: Professor & Chair
Institution: Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Address: Dept Plastic Surgery, 2100 Pierre Ave, 2430 MCS, Nashville   TN   37232
Email: bruce.shack@vanderbilt.edu
Research Interests:  
Teaching interests:

Name: Robert J, Spinner, MD
Title: Associate Professor
Institution: Mayo Clinic Rochester
Address: Depts Neurologic Surgery, Orthopedics & Anatomy.   Gonda 8-109, 200 First St Southwest, Rochester, MN 55905
Email: spinner.robert@mayo.edu
Research Interests: peripheral nerve injury
Teaching interests:

Name: Cristian Stefan, MD
Title: Associate Professor
Institution: Univ Massachusetts Medical School
Address: 55 Lake Avenue North, Worchester   MA   01655
Email: cristian.stefan@umassmed.edu
Phone: 508-856-2322
Research Interests: curriculum development, educational methodology
Teaching interests: medical neuroscience, clinical anatomy

Name: Muni Subramani
Title:
Institution:
Address: 50 Nash Street, 1R , New Haven, CT
Phone: 860-315-2357
Fax: 402-559-3400
Email:
Research Areas: CNS regeneration, neurobiology, physiology, behavior following brain damage, cell and developmental neuroscience, molecular biology or neuronal regeneration, synaptic mechanisms of tissue repair and synaptogenesis
Teaching Areas: gross anatomy, cell and molecular biology, Physiology

Name: William J. Swartz, PhD
Title: Professor
Institution: LSU Health Sciences Center
Address: Dept Cell Biology & Anatomy, 1901 Perdido St, New Orleans   LA   70112
Email: wswart@lsuhsc.edu
Research Interests: reproductive toxicology
Teaching interests: gross anatomy, surgical anatomy, human prenatal development

Name: Piroska Szabo, PhD
Title: Professor
Institution: Touro College
Address: Dept of Physical Therapy
Email: pszabo@touro.edu
Research Interests: 
Teaching interests: gross anatomy, embryology, histology

Name: James J. Walker, PhD
Title: Associate Professor Institution:   Purdue University Dept of Basic Medical Sciences
Lafayette Center for Medical Education (Indiana University School of Medicine)
Address: 625 Harrison Street, West Lafayette,   IN   47907-2026
Email: jjw@purdue.edu
Research Interests: developmental biology and medical education (development of multimedia education resources)
Teaching interests: gross anatomy and embryology/   Neuroscience

Name: Dr. Anil Walji
Title: Professor & Director
Institution: University of Alberta
Address: 5-01 Medical Sciences Bldg,   Edmonton, AB T6G 2H7 Canada
Email: awalji@med.ualberta.ca
Research Interests: parasaggital dural channels, joint capsules and ligaments
Teaching interests: clinical anatomy, clinical neuroanatomy, medical education, curriculum development

Name: James M. Williams
Title: Professor
Institution: Rush University Medical \Center
Address: 600 S. Paulina Street, Suite 507a AF, Chicago, IL
Phone: 312-942-5744
Fax: 312-942-5744
Email: James_M_Williams@rush.edu
Research Areas: Animal models, cartilage injury and repair, osteoarthritis, orthopaedics
Teaching Areas: Primarily gross anatomy (course director), histolog

Name: Kenneth Wright, PhD
Title: Assistant Professor
Institution: Loma Linda University
Address: 24745 Stewart St, Loma Linda, CA   92350
Email: kwright@llu.edu
Research Interests: osteoclast biology
Teaching interests: gross anatomy (limbs & thorax), general histology, oral histology

Name: Hector Lopez, PhD
Title: Assistant Professor
Institution: Thomas Jefferson University
Address: 1020 Locust Street, JAH room 521, Philadelphia, PA, 19107
Email: hector.lopez@jefferson.edu
Research Interests:
Teaching interests: gross anatomy, neuroanatomy, cross-sectional anatomy

Name: Harvey T. Huddleston, MD, FACS
Title: Retired
Institution: Louisianna State University
Address: 2424 Creekside Circle South, Hackberry Creek Country Club, Irving, TX 75063
Email: harveyhuddleston@mac.com
Research Interests: The anatomic methods of "passive transfer" of forces from the LA muscle to the bladder neck. The anatomic method by which the upper vaginal wall increases in length, elevates and "balloons" in the plateau phase of sexual excitement. All things dealing with paravaginal defects.
Teaching interests: Clinical correlates in pelvic anatomy

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