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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

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