• Professor in the Medical Technology Department at the University of Delaware. My research team are (clockwise from topleft ): Brendan Mooney (MT class of 2012), Ryan Penn (MT class of 2012), Dave Muhuri (MT class of 2012), Michelle Francis (MT class of 2013) and Sarah Greenwood (BISC class of 2012).
• President of the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (2009-10), installed in Chicago at our annual meeting, July 25, 2009
  
• Office: Willard Hall Education Building room 305G; research lab 302-831-8804; office 302-831-8737; fax 302-831-4180
• Teaching expertise: Clinical Chemistry, Urinalysis and Body Fluids, Laboratory Mathematics (taught within Clinical Laboratory Principles and Statistics) and Professional Development
• Certification Review seminars to prepare students to take national certification exams: answers to my most recent review are here.
• Research: the structural basis for potency and receptor selectivity of a group of snake venom proteins (the disintegrins) which can affect many cellular processes, such as blood clotting and cancer metastasis
• Presentation on patient safety
  
• Presentations for the 2005 ASCLS annual meeting in Orlando; presentations 1 and 2 for the ISTH meeting in Sydney Australia.
• Presentation for the 2006 CLEC meeting in San Antonio TX; appendix2 handouts
  
• Answers to the lipids-blood gas quizzes, 2006
  
• Read my articles/abstracts:
  • Disintegrins in health and disease
  • Inhibition of lung tumor colonization and cell migration with the disintegrin crotatroxin 2 isolated from the venom of Crotalus atrox
  • Scientific and standardization committee communications: classification and nomenclature of disintegrins isolated from snake venoms
  • Inhibition of melanoma cell motility by the snake venom disintegrin eristostatin
    
  • Monomeric and dimeric disintegrins: Platelet-active agents from viper venom
  • The disintegrin echistatin stabilizes integrin alphaIIbbeta3's open conformation and promotes its oligomerization
  • Scratching below the surface: Wound healing and alanine mutagenesis provide unique insights into interactions between eristostatin, platelets and melanoma cells. Pathophys Haemost Thromb 34: 164-168, 2005.
  • Molecular engineering of an EGFP/disintegrin-based integrin marker.
    
  • The disintegrin echistatin stabilizes aIIbB3's open conformation and promotes its oligomerization.
    
  • Disintegrins
    
  • New insights on disintegrin-receptor interactions: eristostatin and melanoma cells.
  • Cloning, expression, and characterization of a bi-functional disintegrin/alkaline phosphatase hybrid protein.
  • Integrin antagonists affect growth and pathfinding of ventral motor nerves in the trunk of embryonic zebrafish.
  • EC3, a Heterodimeric Disintegrin from Echis carinatus, Inhibits Human and Murine 4 Integrin and Attenuates Lymphocyte Infiltration of Langerhans Islets in Pancreas and Salivary Glands in Nonobese Diabetic Mice.
  • ADVANCE for Medical Laboratory Professionals, graduation 2003 issue

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