Education
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PhD, Medical and Health Professions Education, Concentration: Contemporary Human Anatomy Education. Eastern Virginia Medical School. Norfolk, VA. Anticipated 2022.
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MS, Pathologists’ Assistant Studies, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, IL, 2016.
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MS, Cell and Molecular Biology, Tulane University School of Science and Engineering, New Orleans, LA, 2014
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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
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Course Director
- PATH7200 Anatomic Pathology Clerkship I-III
- PATH6280 Autopsy Pathology Practicum
- PATH6270 Surgical Pathology Practicum
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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