Staff and Faculty Directory
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Assistant Professor of Instruction
Medical Education Building
Expertise: Epidemiology, Health Systems Science, Global Health, Health Disparities
Professor, Chair, College of Arts & Sciences
Expertise: Oncolytic Viruses, Virus-Host Interactions, Natural Products
Associate Professor of Instruction
Expertise: Cancer Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Insilco Drug Design, Human Genetics
Assistant Professor of Instruction
South Pointe South
Expertise: Loren also works at a policy think tank concentrating in Medicaid and health economics.
Associate Professor, Graduate Chair, Russ College of Engineering & Technology
Stocker Center
Assistant Professor of Instruction, College of Health Sciences and Professions; Diabetes Certificate Coordinator
Grover Center E175
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Assistant Clinical Professor
Heritage Hall
Expertise: Gender-affirming healthcare, Contraception, Sexually Transmitted Infections
Associate Professor of Instruction
Expertise: Physiology, Pharmacology, Ion channel structure-function, Medical education
Assistant Clinical Professor
Expertise: Direct primary care, family medicine, osteopathic manipulative medicine
Barbara Geralds Schoonover Professor of Health Communication, School of Communication Studies
Schoonover Center
Assistant Professor & Investigator of the Ohio Musculoskeletal & Neurological Institute; Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Ralph S. Licklider, D.O. Endowed Faculty Fellow in Aging Systems Physiology
Life Science Building
Expertise: Skeletal Muscle, Aging, Frailty, Neuromuscular Physiology, Adaptations to Exercise
Associate Clinical Professor
Heritage Hall
Expertise: General diagnostic radiology including X-ray, CT, MRI, ultrasound, mammography, nuclear medicine, joint injections
Associate Vice President of Research; Interim Director, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Aging; Professor, Biomedical Sciences
Expertise: Obesity, Nutrition, Growth hormone, Adipose tissue, Diabetes, Endocrinology
Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Ralph S. Licklider, D.O., Endowed Professor; ORG Special Assistant for Research Partnerships
Expertise: Behavioral diabetes, Psychosocial issues, Qualitative research methods, Medical education
Associate Professor, Chair
Heritage Hall
Expertise: Trauma, adversity, and health, Trauma-informed care, Behavioral Health in Primary Care
Associate Professor Emerita of Anatomical Sciences, Gross Anatomy
Medical Education Building
Assistant Clinical Professor
Heritage Hall
Expertise: Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, Lifestyle Medicine, Primary Care
Dean of Dublin Campus and Vice Dean of Clinical Education Operations
Medical Education Building
Expertise: Family Medicine, Medical Education, Global Health, International Osteopathic Medicine
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Associate Dean Emeritus, Clinical Education; Associate Professor Emeritus, Geriatric Medicine; Instructor, Primary Care
Heritage Hall
Professor & Graduate Chair
College of Arts & Sciences
Life Science Building
Director of Rural and Underserved Programs; Clinical Adjunct Assistant Professor, Family Medicine
Heritage Hall
Expertise: Education, Educational research, Health literacy, Asset-based community development, Place-based learning, Qualitative r
Associate Director, Student Affairs for Student Success
Medical Education Building
Medical Education Learning Technologies Analyst II
South Pointe South
Professor, Associate Director of Nursing Research and Scholarship, College of Health Sciences and Professions
Grover Center E365, Athens Campus
Expertise: Maternal-infant health, lactation, women's health, culture and health
Professor, Associate Director of Nursing Research and Scholarship, Nursing
Grover Center
Associate Professor, Social Medicine; Director, Transformative Care Continuum
South Pointe South
Prof., Physiology & Neuroscience; Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Harold E. Clybourne, D.O., Endowed Research Chair
Irvine
Expertise: Aging Systems & Geriatrics, Human, Exercise, Integrative, & Neuromuscular Physiology Muscle Biology, Neurophysiology
Research Assistant Professor
Irvine Hall
Expertise: Physical Therapy, Aging Systems, Pediatrics
Associate Professor, Microanatomy; Heritage Endowed Faculty Fellow in Enhanced Metabolic Aging, Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Ralph S. Licklider, D.O., Research Endowment
Academic and Research Center
Expertise: Metabolism, Aging Systems, Muscle Physiology
Associate Chair, Biomedical Sciences; Associate Professor, Molecular/Cellular Biology
Academic and Research Center
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Stocker Center
Expertise: Mechanics of biomaterials, mechanical simulation and modeling
Associate Director, Student Affairs for Student Success
Heritage Hall
Medical Education Technologies Application Administrator III
Medical Education Center
Clinical Assistant Dean, Northeastern Unit; Discipline Director, Emergency Medicine; Associate Clinical Professor and Chair of the Department of Specialty Medicine
Affinity Medical Center-Massillon, Clinical Campus; South Pointe South
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Associate Professor
Expertise: Sensorineural coding in binaural hearing.
Assistant Director, Medical Education Technology Operations
Heritage Hall
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Clinical Assistant Dean, Northwestern Unit
Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center-Toledo, Clinical Campus
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Assistant Clinical Professor
Heritage Hall
Expertise: Family Medicine, Addiction Medicine, Office Based Opioid Treatment (OBOT), Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Porter Hall
Expertise: Risk and maintenance factors for eating disorders across psychological, social and physiological domains.
Professor; Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Ralph S. Licklider, D.O., Endowed Professor in Community and Behavioral Health; Co-Director, Institute to Advance Population Health (ADVANCE)
Irvine Hall
Expertise: Medical Sociology, Health Disparities, Racism and Health, Addiction, Opioid Use Disorder, Religion and Health
Associate Professor
South Pointe South
Expertise: Population health, social determinants of health, workforce participation and health
CTRU Medical Director; Associate Professor
Irvine Hall
Expertise: Full Spectrum Family Medicine, Organizational Strategic Planning, Military and Aerospace Medicine
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Assistant Professor of Instruction
South Pointe South
Expertise: Gross Anatomy, Histology, Educational Research, Disability Studies
Distinguished Professor, Ohio University, Department of Physics and Astronomy; Fellow of the American Physical Society
Clippinger
Expertise: Theoretical condensed-matter physics.
Associate Professor of Instruction
Heritage Hall
Expertise: Rural health, wellness, global health, trauma informed care, behavioral health/primary care integration, & community hea
Associate Director of ORUP; Assistant Clinical Professor
South Pointe South
Director, Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute; Professor, Microbiology
Medical Education Center
Expertise: Tropical Diseases, Parasitology, Blood Bank Safety, International Research, Research Capacity Development
Professor of Clinical Neuroscience; Gary Chleboun Scholar of Physical Therapy
Grover Center
Expertise: Neuroscience, sensorimotor control, biomechanics, orthopedics, sports medicine
Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Stocker Center
Expertise: Chromatology modeling and scale-up.
Assistant Clinical Professor
Expertise: Urban underserved pediatric primary care, Dating and sexual violence, LGBTQ youth
Assistant Clinical Professor
Medical Education Building 2
Expertise: Direct primary care, Integrative medicine, Positive psychology, Behavioral health
Interim Senior Dean of the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine; Clinical Professor
Heritage Hall
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Associate Clinical Professor
Expertise: OMM, Integrative medicine, Autonomic dysfunction, Acupressure, Hormone regulation
Academic Program Administrator
Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center-Toledo, Clinical Campus
Assistant Clinical Professor; Clinical Assistant Dean Western Unit
Grandview Medical Center-Dayton, Clinical Campus; Medical Education Building 1
Expertise: Family Medicine, Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, Medical Education, Leadership, and Health Policy
Associate Professor, College of Health Sciences and Professions
Grover Center
Expertise: Sports nutrition and nutraceuticals,
Associate Professor & Online Graduate Recruitment Chair, College of Arts and Sciences
Biochemistry Research Facility
Expertise: Development of chemical tools to investigate biological processes.
Assistant Professor
Irvine Hall
The Institute to Advance Health Equity (ADVANCE)
The Institute to Advance Health Equity (ADVANCE)
Expertise: Diabetes, Behavioral Medicine, Disability, Qualitative Methodology, Statistics
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Professor
Heritage Hall
Expertise: Aging, global health, public health, stress, nutrition
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Vice President for Health Affairs and Senior Strategist for Health Partnerships
Heritage Hall
Assistant Clinical Professor; Discipline Director, Pediatrics
Medical Education Building 1
Expertise: Primary Care, Pediatrics
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Chair, OMM Department; Clinical Professor, OMM
Medical Education Building 1
Expertise: Osteopathic Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine (ONMM), Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment (OMT), Sports Medicine
Dean of Cleveland Campus and Interim Vice Dean of Pre-Clinical Education
Goll-Ohio Eminent Scholar; Professor, Molecular Biology
Konneker Research Center
Assistant Clinical Professor, Primary Care; Associate Director, Office of Rural and Underserved Programs
Heritage Hall
Expertise: Transgender medicine, Lifestyle medicine, Narrative medicine, Contraception
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Assistant Professor of Instruction, Medical Physiology
Expertise: Human Physiology, Clinical Exercise Physiology, Cardiology, Youth Obesity, Lifestyle Behavior Research, Health Education
Professor
Life Sciences Building
Expertise: Pathogenic mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative diseases (NDs)
Associate Professor
Academic & Research Center
Expertise: Molecular biology, Adipose tissue, Obesity, Diabetes, Metabolism, and Physiology
Assistant Director, Office of Institutional Assessment & Accreditation
Medical Education Center
Assistant Professor
Expertise: Evolutionary Morphology, Comparative Biomechanics, Anatomy, Vertebrate Paleontology
Assistant Clinical Professor; Discipline Director, Internal Medicine; Clinical Faculty Educator
Expertise: Internal medicine, wellness, suicide prevention, and quality improvement.
Professor of Computer Science
321c Stocker
Expertise: Software engineering
Research Assistant Professor
Life Science Building
Expertise: Joint degeneration, Orthopedic biology
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Stocker Center
Expertise: Medical image analysis, machine learning, computer vision, human motion detection and classification and shape modeling.
Associate Professor; Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Ralph S. Licklider, D.O., Endowed Faculty Fellow in Obesity and Diabetes
Academic & Research Center
Expertise: Obesity, Diabetes, Cardiovascular disease, Behavioral neuroscience, Energy/lipid/glucose homeostasis
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Assistant Director, Medical Education Classroom Connectivity and Operations
Heritage Hall
Assistant Clinical Professor
Parks Hall
Expertise: Diabetes, Insulin Resistance, Obesity, Metabolic syndrome, Cardiovascular complications, Thyroid diseases
Medical Education Learning Technologies Analyst II
Medical Education Building 1
Assistant Professor, Department of Exercise Physiology
Grover Center
Expertise: Understanding and mitigating cardiovascular health disparities through the lens of integrative physiology.
Operations and Continuing Medical Education Coordinator
Expertise: OFLA Operations Support, OMM CME Programming, Osteopathic Recognition
Professor; Associate Chair
Academic and Research Center
Expertise: Role of chronic inflammation in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, and novel therapeutic development
Assistant Clinical Professor
Expertise: Hospitalist, Perioperative Medicine, Hospice Care, Skilled Nursing Facilities
Medical Education Learning Technologies Analyst IV
Medical Education Center
Assistant Clinical Professor
Heritage Hall
Expertise: Hypertension, Acute kidney injury, Chronic kidney disease, End stage kidney disease, Kidney failure, Glomerulonephritis,
Professor, Biology
Life Science Bldg 243
Expertise: Sexual selection, variation in female mate preferences and the evolution of alternative reproductive strategies.
Professor, Social Medicine; Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Ralph S. Licklider, D.O. Endowed Professor in Health and Aging
Irvine Hall
Expertise: Aging, brain health, epidemiology, biostatistics
Chair, Biomedical Sciences; Professor of Bacteriology
Life Sciences Building
Expertise: Bacteriology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Bacterial Infection, Gene Regulation, RNA
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Professor; Osteopathic Heritage Foundation John J. Kopchick, Ph.D., Endowed Eminent Research Chair
Academic & Research Center
Expertise: Insulin signaling, insulin clearance/metabolism, insulin resistance, lipid metabolism, obesity, Type 2 diabetes
Assistant Clinical Professor; Associate Director Office of Rural and Underserved Programs
Medical Education Building 2
Expertise: House Call Medicine, Hospice, Lifestyle and Preventive Medicine, General Primary Care
Associate Professor; Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Ralph S. Licklider, DO, Endowed Faculty Fellow in Diabetes and Islet Biology
Academic & Research Center
Expertise: Expertise: Diabetes, Islets, Low-grade inflammation, Beta-cell failure, Metabolism, Drug discovery
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Professor, Neuroscience & Anatomy
Life Sciences Building
Expertise: Functional Anatomy, Neuroanatomy, Neurophysiology, Curriculum Oversight/Development
Senior Director, Clinical Learning Environment Development
Heritage Hall
Expertise: Faculty and Curriculum Development, Educational Programming
Executive Director, Community Health Programs and Area Health Education Center
Grosvenor West
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Director, Communication and Development Studies & Associate Professor, Scripps
Associate Professor, Psychology
Porter Hall
Expertise: Stress and psychophysiology in social relationships
Associate Professor of Instruction
Heritage Hall
Expertise: Expertise: Human Medical Morphology, Archosaur Cephalic Vasculature and Thermoregulation
Associate Director, Admissions & Outreach
Medical Education Building 1
Instructor, Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (OMM) and Associate Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine
Heritage Hall
Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Ralph S. Licklider, D.O., Endowed Professor; Executive Director, Diabetes Institute
Academic & Research Center
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Professor
Heritage Hall
Expertise: Cultural competence in healthcare; culturally adaptive research
Assistant Clinical Professor; Discipline Director, Psychiatric Medicine
Dublin Campus
Expertise: Psychiatry
Associate Clinical Professor, Family Medicine
Medical Education Building 1
Academic Program Administrator
Kettering Health Clinical Campus-Dayton
Assistant Clinical Professor; Faculty Lead, Continuity in Family Medicine - Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (CFM-LIC)
Heritage Hall
Assistant Professor of Instruction; Attending Veterinarian
Life Science Building
Professor; Director, Histology Core Facility
Irvine Hall
Expertise: Endocrine and Bone Pathology; Toxicologic Pathology; Cancer Metastasis; Drug Discovery & Safety; Food Safety.
Interim Chair, Department of Primary Care; Clinical Assistant Dean, Eastern Unit; Professor
Western Reserve Hospital-Cuyahoga Falls, Clinical Campus
Expertise: Expertise in medical education, both UGME and GME. Faculty for years 1-4, and DIO for 8 residencies.
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Associate Clinical Professor
South Pointe South
Expertise: Direct Primary Care (DPC), osteopathic manipulative therapy
Assistant Clinical Professor; Discipline Director, Family Medicine
Heritage Hall
Expertise: Family Medicine, Urgent Care, Medical Education, Lifestyle Medicine, End of Life Care, Narrative Medicine
Associate Professor, Medical Ethics
South Pointe South
Expertise: Philosophy of Medicine, Clinical Medical Ethics, Feminist Epistemology & Philosophy of Science
Dean; Professor, Primary Care
Heritage Hall
Expertise: Family Medicine, Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Geriatrics, Narrative Medicine, Medical Education
Assistant Professor; Licensed School Nurse
College of Health Sciences and Professions
Grover Center E336
Associate Dean for Research and Associate Professor
Grover Center
Expertise: Patient-reported outcomes, epidemiology, and clinical research design and analyses
Executive Director of Collaborative Research in Medicine and Health
Grover Center
Nursing, Director of Operations, College of Health Sciences and Professions
Assistant Clinical Professor
Heritage Hall
Expertise: Adult psychiatry, medical education, administrative medicine, organizational leadership
Associate Professor of Instruction
Heritage Hall
Expertise: Expertise: cardiovascular physiology, neurophysiology, instructional innovation, US Army Field Medic 1997-2001
Associate Clinical Professor; Director, Medical Education Associates Program
Expertise: Internal Medicine, Preventive Health, Primary Care, Geriatrics
Professor of Psychology and Director of Clinical Training
Porter Hall
Expertise: Geriatric neuropsychology
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Visiting Professor
Heritage Hall
Expertise: Comparative Biomechanics, Functional Morphology, Human and Non-Human Primate Anatomy, Behavioral Ecology
Associate Clinical Professor
South Pointe South
Expertise: Exercise Medicine, Primary Care Sports Medicine, Musculoskeletal health, Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine
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Medical Education Learning Technologies Analyst
Medical Education Center
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Clinical Training and Assessment Center Coordinator
Medical Education Building 1
Senior Strategic Advisor
Heritage Hall
Expertise: Leadership of University Public Service Organizations and Partnerships, Strategy, Budgeting, Entrepreneurship
Associate Professor & Director of Molecular & Cellular Biology
Life Science Building
Director of Medical Education Process and Technology Solutions
Medical Education Center
Professor, Anatomy; Associate Dean of Faculty
Heritage Hall
Expertise: Oral Physiology, Musculoskeletal Biomechanics, Sensorimotor Integration
Professor, Anatomy; Chang Ying-Chien Professor of Paleontology
Life Sciences Building
Expertise: Expertise: Comparative evolutionary biology, Paleontology, & Functional anatomy & Physiology
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Assistant Professor
Expertise: Aging, behavioral research, machine learning, PRO psychometrics, Hispanic health disparities
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Associate Professor; Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Ralph S. Licklider, D.O. Endowed Professor; Division Director of Basic and Preclinical Research
Life Science Building 133
Expertise: Cartilage Biology, Aging and Metabolism, Osteoarthritis
Associate Dean, Health Systems and Operations; Interim Associate Dean, Dublin Campus; and Associate Clinical Professor
