MICHAEL MCKINLEY received his undergraduate degree from
the University of California at Berkeley, and both his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees
from Arizona State University. In 1978, he accepted a postdoctoral fellowship
at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) Medical School in the
laboratory of Dr. Stanley Prusiner, where he worked for two years investigating
prions and prion-diseases. In 1980, he became a member of the anatomy faculty
at the UCSF Medical School and taught medical students for 10 years while
continuing to do research on prions. He was an author or co-author of more than
80 scientific papers during this time. Since 1991, Mike has been a member of
the biology faculty at Glendale Community College, where he teaches anatomy
and physiology to pre-health-care students. Between 1991 and 2000, in addition
to teaching at Glendale Community College, he participated in Alzheimer
disease research at Sun Health Research Institute, and taught developmental
biology and human genetics classes at Arizona State University, West. Mike
is an active member of the Human Anatomy and Physiology Society (HAPS).
He resides in Tempe, AZ, with his wife Jan and their youngest son Shaun.
VALERIE DEAN O’LOUGHLIN received her undergraduate
degree from the College of William and Mary and her Ph.D. in biological
anthropology from Indiana University. Since 1995, she has been a member of the
Indiana University School of Medicine faculty, where she teaches human gross
anatomy to first-year medical students and basic human anatomy to undergraduates.
Her research interests span craniofacial growth and development, osteology,
paleopathology, anatomy, educational research, and the scholarship of teaching
and learning. Valerie has presented and published articles in all of these fields.
In addition, she has prepared numerous Web-based human embryology teaching
modules. She has been the recipient of the SBC Fellows and IHETS educational
grants as well as several teaching awards, including a Teaching Excellence
Recognition Award and a Trustee Teaching Award from Indiana University.
Valerie is an active member of the American Association of Anatomists
(AAA), the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA),
and the Human Anatomy and Physiology Society (HAPS). She resides
in Bloomington, IN, with her husband Bob and her daughter Erin.
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