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Graduate and Professional Experience

1966-1968

Masters Degree, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Oklahoma State University, School of Veterinary Sciences, Stillwater, Oklahoma. Advisor: Calvin Beams, PhD. MS dissertation title: Lipid biosynthesis in Otala lactea

 

1968-1970

Instructor of Biology, Macon Junior College, Macon, GA (1968-69), and Clayton Junior College, Atlanta, GA (1969-70)

 

1970-1974

Predoctoral Cardiovascular Trainee, Dept. of Physiology, Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C. Mentor: Phillip Hutchins, Ph.D. Dissertation title: Cardiovascular responses to prostaglandin F2alpha in normotensive and spontaneously hypertensive rats.

 

1974-1977

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Clinical Pharmacology Division, Dept. of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical School, Nashville, TN. Mentor: John Oates, M.D.

 

1977

Research Instructor, Dept. of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical School, Nashville, TN.
Departmental Chair: Joel Hardman, Ph.D.

 

1997-2003

Director, MD/PhD Program, MCV Campus of Virginia Commonwealth University.
Appointed by Hermes Kontos, MD, PhD; VP of Health Sciences, reported to Heber Newsome, MD, Dean, School of Medicine

 

1977-present

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Medical College of Virginia Campus of Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
Assistant Professor, 1977-84; Associate Professor, 1984-90; Professor, 1990-2003
(Adjunct part-time Research Professor, 2003-present)
Departmental Chair: Louis Harris, Ph.D., 1977-92, George Kunos, M.D./Ph.D., 1992-2000,
Billy Martin, Ph.D., 2000-present

 


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Last Update: August 28, 2007