Fall 1975
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Dr.
John Jacquez
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Dr.
Gabriel Frommer
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Mr.
John Wood
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Mr.
Robert Matteson
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Mr.
John Koch
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Important people in my graduate training at Michigan:
Dr. Kenneth Jochim (fourth row)
Dr. Jochim took me under his wing in 1975 and became my mentor and friend until I left Michigan in 1980 with my PhD with a special emphasis on cardiovascular physiology. He taught me cardiovascular physiology and experimental design like no one else has ever come close to. My love of the circulatory system and its teaching to others stems from Dr. Jochim. He retired from the Physiology department in 1981 but continued to work with the Thoracic Surgery department as an Emeritus Professor. I have just recently been informed of his death at the age of 89 on September 9, 2000. A part of who I am is now gone and I am profoundly saddened.Dr. David Mouw (back row)
Dr. Mouw taught me how to teach which is NOT just the presentation of material. I learned from Dr. Mouw that to be a great teacher is to fairly assess what you have taught. Great lectures without the combination of excellent assessments is a teaching failure. His obvious enjoyment, creativity and devotion to teaching has had the greatest impact on how I treat my students every day while I was a professor at Stevens and now at Bergen County Academies. I worked with Dr. Mouw first as a Teaching Fellow in his undergraduate Human Physiology course which was taught to 500 students each fall term. Later I worked with him as part of his primary teaching staff as the course laboratory coordinator. He later left the department to attend medical school in North Carolina and continue in the world of rural medicine in Robbinsville, NC. Currently he is in Family Health medical practice and on the faculty of the Mountain Area Health Education Center in Asheville, NC.Dr. Arthur Vander (second row)
Although I did not work closely with Dr. Vander, I learned how to motivate students at a creative level beyond the simple transfer of knowledge when I attended his lectures on renal physiology and watched him teach undergraduates in advanced topics in his physiology courses. I have also learned how to convey physiology effectively through using his textbooks over the last 25 years. I have taught from his 3rd through the 8th editions of Human Physiology.Dr. James Sherman (second row)
Dr. Sherman taught the second semester version of Human Physiology to 500 undergraduates during the winter semester. I worked with him as laboratory coordinator for many years. Of course his influence on the text book Human Physiology with Arthur Vander and Dorothy Luciano had direct impact on who I am as a teacher today. His support for my employment as Laboratory Coordinator helped me to learn how to teach students, but also how to teach teachers of students as I trained other graduate students to become lab teaching fellows.Dr. Horace Davenport (front row)
Although I did not work directly with my original Dr. D., I attended his many amazing lectures both in the department and at his home during the 7 years that I grew up in the Physiology Department. I guess he was the first God of science I ever met.... a truly awe inspiring man. He is world-famous in medicine for the research and textbooks he has written on the gastrointestinal tract and acid-base physiology. He is a highly honored man at the University of Michigan and he instilled in me the importance of teaching about the history of science as I instill the facts about science.Dr. Douglas Behrendt (not in photo)
Along with Dr. Jochim, Dr. Behrendt was my research mentor from the Dept of Surgery. He introducted me to the many fascinating clinically related research topics that eventually led me to my research on cardioplegic solutions for use during bypass surgery. His financial support for my research will always be an important part of my history as a scientist. Dr. Behrendt has been the Chairman of the Cardothoracic Surgery Dept. at the University of Iowa for many years.Dr. Robert Beyer (not in photo)
When my thesis committee suggested that I learn biochemistry and expand my research into cardiac nucleotide levels, Dr. Beyer became a key mentor in my life. Working in his research lab in the Dept of Zoology had a profound affect on me. My fascination with biochemistry began in his lab and today, most of my molecular approach to teaching biology stems from the eye-opening year I spent in his lab.Mr. Robert Phair (second row)
When I first met Robert as a fellow graduate student in the entering class of 1973, I had no idea how influential he would be. Robert was an engineer and his approach to analyzing physiological systems via flow chart analysis was one of the biggest lights to turn on in my education. To this day, I use this technique in all of my courses and I have passed this approach on to 100s of students over the last 25 years. Many a student has groaned upon my insistence that they flow chart a physiological or biological system, but as far as I am concerned... it is the ONLY way to go. Dr. Phair currently is CEO of BioInformatics ServicesVirginia Brooks, Mark Gorman, John Koch , Judith Nickolls, Robert Phair, Michael Shanahan, Jacqueline Smith, Winona Victery, and John Wood
Just good fellow graduate student friends with whom I had some great parties and trips. Dr. Brooks is now a professor in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at Oregon Health Sciences University. I worked with Dr. Gorman when we both joined Dr. Harvey Sparks at Michigan State Univerisity. Dr. Gorman has continued his work in the area of cardiovascular physiology with Dr. Sparks. Dr. Victery at last contact via an internet search works for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in San Franciso, CA.. I hope that all the others are doing well too.