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Graduate Program Alumni

2024

Oheneba Boadum, MD, PhD

• Dissertation Title: Empowerment in preclinical medical education: The role of self-directed readiness, mental wellbeing, and academic performance
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Advanced Biomedical Education, University of Mississippi Medical Center

Marli Crabtree, PhD

• Dissertation Title: The role of impostor syndrome on career and academic progression in the basic sciences
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, Duquesne University College of Osteopathic Medicine

Kayla Pavlick, PhD

• Dissertation Title: Pre-clerkship basic science medical educator and student views of learning objectives
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, Division of Medical Education, University of South Alabama College of Medicine

2023

Casey Boothe, PhD

• Dissertation Title: Study Strategies and Time Management: The Broccoli of Academics
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Advanced Biomedical Education, University of Mississippi Medical Center

Kathryn Veazey, PhD

• Dissertation Title: Clinical communication skills in medical students: Influences, attitudes, and evolution
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy, Drexel University College of Medicine

2022

Andrew Ferriby, PhD

• Dissertation Title: Threshold Concepts in Undergraduate Medical Education for Understanding the Structure and Function of the Human Body for the Practice of Medicine: Student Perspectives
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences

2021

Caroline Mueller, PhD

• Dissertation Title: Integrating Clinical Correlations into the Gross Anatomy Laboratory: Clinically-oriented Laboratory Manuals
• Current Position: Assistant Professor of Medical Anatomy, Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine

2020

Sara Allison, PhD 

• Dissertation Title: Students' Fear of Death, Dissection Avoidance Behaviors and Performance in Gross Anatomy Courses with Cadaveric Dissection 
• Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Western Michigan University, Stryker School of Medicine 

2019

Edgar Meyer, PhD

• Dissertation title: The Implementation of Valid Virtual 3D Stereoscopic Middle and Inner Ear Models for Determining Their Impact on First-Year Medical Students and Residents Short- and Long-Term Retention
• Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology & Developmental Sciences, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock

Ellen Robertson, PhD

• Dissertation title: The Value of Anatomy Coursework for Professional School       
• Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomical Sciences, UMMC 

2018

Sutton Williams, PhD

• Dissertation title: Educational outcomes of implementing prosections as teaching tools in the medical gross anatomy laboratory
• Current position: Assistant Professor, Division of Human Anatomy, Michigan State University, Grand Rapids