Education

• PhD, Medical and Health Professions Education, Concentration: Contemporary Human Anatomy Education. Eastern Virginia Medical School. Norfolk, VA. Anticipated 2022.
• MS, Pathologists’ Assistant Studies, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, IL, 2016.
• MS, Cell and Molecular Biology, Tulane University School of Science and Engineering, New Orleans, LA, 2014
• BS, Cell and Molecular Biology, Tulane University School of Science and Engineering, New Orleans, LA, 2013

Biography

Fellowship and Clerkship Training

• Digital Communications Fellowship in Pathology (2021-2022) – Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine and The Pathologist Magazine
• Autopsy and Surgical Pathology Teaching Fellowship (2015-2016) – Tulane University School of Medicine.
• Anatomic Pathology Clerkship Training in Surgical and Autopsy Pathology (2015-2016) – Tulane University School of Medicine.
• Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Anatomical Sciences (2013-2014) – Tulane University School of Science and Engineering

Certification

Board Certified Pathologists’ Assistant - American Society for Clinical Pathology (2016-Present)

Faculty Appointments

School of Medicine

• Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
  • Program Director, Pathologists’ Assistant Program (2018-Present)
  • Instructor (2018 – present)
  • Clinical Instructor (2017-2018)
• Department of Structural and Cellular Biology, School of Medicine
  • Gross Anatomy Laboratory Director (2016-present)
  • Adjunct Instructor - Gross Anatomy and Medical Histology (2016 – present)
  • Medical Histology Laboratory Director (2017 – 2020)

School of Science and Engineering

• Department of Cell and Molecular Biology 
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor (2015 – present) 
  • Gross Anatomy Laboratory Director (2015 – present) 

Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, School of Science and Engineering

• Adjunct Assistant Professor (2015 – Present)

Didactic Teaching Responsibilities

Sole Instructor

• CELL4920 Advanced Cadaver Dissection 
• CELL6490/4490 Gross Anatomy
• CELL6491/4491 Gross Anatomy Lab
• CELL6110/4110 Human Histology
• CELL6111/4111 Human Histology Lab
• CELL6480/4480 Head and Neck Anatomy
• CELL6660 Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology
• SCEN2010 Clinical Musculoskeletal Anatomy

Course Director

• PATH6210 Surgical Pathology Techniques
• PATH6220 Advanced Surgical Pathology Techniques I 
• PATH6210 Advanced Surgical Pathology Techniques Lab I
• PATH6230 Advanced Surgical Pathology Techniques II
• PATH6231 Advanced Surgical Pathology Techniques Lab II
• PATH6200 Autopsy Pathology
• PATH6300 Mechanisms of Disease 1 
• PATH6310 Mechanisms of Disease 2 
• PATH6240 Pathologists’ Assistant Seminar

Laboratory Director

• ANAT7065 Medical Gross Anatomy
• ANAT7055 Medical Histology

Clinical Teaching Responsibilities

• Course Director

  • PATH7200 Anatomic Pathology Clerkship I-III
  • PATH6280 Autopsy Pathology Practicum
  • PATH6270 Surgical Pathology Practicum

• Clinical Preceptor

  • Surgical pathology rotations for pathology residents and pathologists’ assistant students
  • Autopsy pathology rotations for pathology residents and pathologists’ assistant students

Professional Memberships and Service

• American Association of Pathologists’ Assistants (2014-present)
  • Chair, Advocacy Subcommittee - Marketing and Communications Committee
  • Continuing Education Webinar Content Creator, Education Committee
  • Pathologists’ Assistant Liaison for Louisiana
  • Fellow Member
• American Society for Clinical Pathology (2014 – present)
  • Pathology Resident Mentor, Pathology Ambassador, Career Ambassador, Fellow Member
• Association of Pathologists’ Assistant Training Program Directors (2019 – present)
• American Association for Anatomy, Member (2011 – present)
• National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Science, Site Visitor and Self Study Reviewer (2019 – present)
• American Society for Investigative Pathology, Women in Pathology Founding Member (2020 – present)
• PathElective.com, Faculty Member – Autopsy Module, Pathologists’ Assistant Module (2020 – present)
• International Association of Medical Science Educators (2019 – present)
  • Member and journal reviewer, Medical Science Educator

Publications, Invited Presentations, Grants, Awards and Honors

• Please see here for up-to-date information 

Areas of Expertise

• Medical and Interprofessional Education
• Surgical pathology
• Gross anatomy
• Autopsy pathology