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Willed Body Program Director

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

After receiving my PhD from the University of Washington, Department of Biological Structure in 1996 and a short diversion as a massage therapist, I finally found my dream career as an anatomy instructor and have been teaching medical, dental, nursing, and undergraduate students since 1999. I am the co-lead of the Human Form and Function (HFF) course at the UW School of Medicine dedicated to teaching 1st and 2nd year medical students gross and embryological anatomy of the human body.  During the first 18 months of medical school, students are immersed in learning the foundations of the basic sciences that are the building blocks for their clinical knowledge and gross anatomy and embryology are an integral part of this coursework. Additionally, I am the co-lead of the HFF group that teaches anatomy and embryology across the WWAMI sites. WWAMI is the acronym used for the multi-state medical educational program lead by the UW School of Medicine and includes the medical programs at the University of Washington, University of Wyoming, University of Alaska, Montana State and the University of Idaho.

In March of 2020, I became the Director of the UW Willed Body Program (WBP) (link). The WBP is a whole-body donation program that accepts donors from all over Washington State. The donors in our program are an invaluable part of the education of present and future healthcare providers including the medical students that we teach here at the UW. Learning about the complexity, variation and 3-D relationships of the organ systems of the human body on a human donor is far superior to any models, diagrams and virtual programs and I believe is an invaluable part of our future healthcare providers education.

 

(Above: April 2021 Interview with Young Women in Biology)

 

 

 

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