Ph.D., Biochemistry, Loyola University Chicago, 2008 B.S., Chemistry, Loyola University Chicago, 2003 My teaching style focuses on a discussion based classroom environment where students are actively engaged in the subject matter. I feel this teaching style made me a natural fit for the Team Based Learning method employed in the School of Pharmacy at Regis University. While in the classroom, I encourage students to look at the underlying assumptions for a particular theory that we may be working on. For example, when teaching protein/ligand binding, I ask students what are the assumptions made by a lock and key mechanism versus an induced fit model? I like to make the students aware that there are several ways of thinking about the same phenomenon. I encourage openly asking questions in my classroom as well, and I feel that this helps generate dialogue between students and therefore encourages them to critically examine key concepts in the physical sciences. In addition to teaching in the classroom, I am passionate about teaching and learning in the laboratory. I feel that the lab is where the frontiers of pharmaceutical sciences are advanced and new knowledge about disease states is obtained. Furthermore, I believe that the making discoveries in the laboratory help further the Regis University mission of the pursuit of truth. Before teaching at Regis University, I taught biochemical concepts to first year graduate students and medical students during my postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. During my graduate studies in chemistry, I taught general chemistry, organic chemistry, physical chemistry, and biochemistry to both undergraduate and graduate students.

Information Theory: How do drugs interact with proteins? Bipolar Disorder: How does lithium serve as an effective therapeutic? Heart Disease: How does a mitochondrial transcription factor mutant lead to cardiomyopathies? Mitochondrial Transcription: Several disease states have altered mitochondrial transcription. Developing Autoimmune Disease Treatments: Autoimmune diseases such as lupus recognize “self” DNA as foreign pathogens. Can we exploit existing DNA binding proteins in the body as therapeutic agents? Testicular Cancer: Can we target the HMGB4/DNA interaction in chemotherapy? Understanding the Sox2/Promoter DNA mechanism: Several development diseases and cancer are associated with malfunctioning Sox2 function. Developing a greater understanding of this interaction at the molecular level could lead to novel therapeutics.

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