Motto: Education does not have to be painful.
Philosophy: My duty as a teacher is communicate the information in the most precise, lucid, organized methods possible while projecting that I care whether the students as individuals learn it.
Formal Education
1969-1970
Mount Mercy College – Nursing
1970-1973
BS, University of Iowa – General Science
1973-1978
PhD, University of Iowa – Human Anatomy
Academic Positions and Fellowships
1975-1977
NIH Training Grant Predoctoral Fellowship, Department of Anatomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
1978-1979
NIH Training Grant Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
1979-1981
NICHHD Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Colorado State University-Fort Collins; Section of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine
1981-1982
Research Associate, Section of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine
1982-1989
Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1989-1994
Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1994-present
Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2002-2003
Visiting Associate Professor, Center for Research on Minority Health, Department of Gynecologic Oncology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
2008
Assistant Director for Diversity Initiatives, Endocrinology-Reproductive Physiology Graduate Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2010
Associate Director for Diversity Initiatives, Endocrinology-Reproductive Physiology Graduate Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison