Alumni

Name Years Where are they now? Research
Robert Asher, PhD Senior Lecturer and Curator, University Museum of Zoology, University of Cambridge

PhD, Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropological Sciences, Stony Brook University. Thesis Title: Phylogenetic relationships among tenrecoid insectivores. Graduated, Fall, 2000

Carrie Balcer 2014 - 2018
Kevin Brown Associate Director of Data Science at Bristol Myers Squibb
Mark Coleman, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Education, Western Atlantic University School of Medicine

PhD, Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropological Sciences, Stony Brook University. Thesis Title: Middle and inner ear morphology and ecology. Graduated, 2007

Josh Coles 2009 - 2014
Ruchi Dharia, MD Emergency Medicine Specialist, Syosset, NY
McKenna C. Eastment, MD University of Washington Department of Medicine
Alison Eckhardt
Caylen Erger Veterinary School at University of Missouri

Characterization of the laryngeal adductor reflex in rhesus macaques. Undergraduate Honors Thesis, The College, University of Chicago, 2017

Kara Feilich, PhD Federal Government Consulting
Alexandre Freire, PhD Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas – UNICAMP

CNPq and Capes Fellow

Nicholas Gidmark, PhD Assistant Professor, Knox College
Michael C. Granatosky, PhD Assistant Professor of Anatomy, New York Institute of Technology
Janaya Gripper
Margaret Hall, PhD Professor, Department of Anatomy, Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine, Midwestern University in Glendale, Arizona

PhD, Graduate Program in Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook University. Thesis title: Eye and orbit size and shape in vertebrates. Graduated, 2005

Christopher P. Heesy, PhD Professor, Department of Anatomy, Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine, Midwestern University in Glendale, Arizona

PhD, Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropological Sciences, Stony Brook University. Thesis title: The functions of the mammalian postorbital bar. (Co-advised with Dr. Brigitte Demes). Graduated, Fall, 2003

Liam Heins Application Developer at Ariadne Software
Jose Iriarte-Diaz, PhD Assistant Professor, University of the South, Sewannee
Rebecca Junod 2018 - 2019
Rebecca Kaiser, MD Dermatology Associates of Virginia
Nikki Kijak, MD Orthopaedic Surgery Resident at Uchicago Medicine
Myra F. Laird, PhD Assistant Professor of Clinical Integrative Anatomical Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
J.D. Laurence-Chasen, PhD Computational scientist at Research Computing Center, University of Chicago

PhD, Organismal Biology & Anatomy, University of Chicago. Thesis Title: Neuromechanics of the Primate Tongue During Feeding

Richard H. Madden, PhD Retired, Los Angeles California
Hyab Mehari-Abraha, PhD Postdoctoral Researcher at Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

Fulbright Futures Fellow

Keith Metzger, PhD Assistant Dean of Medical Education, Professor of Medical Sciences, Department of Medical Sciences, Seton Hall University

PhD, Graduate Program in Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook University. Thesis Title: The kinematics of intra-oral prey transport in lizards. Graduated, 2005 (Co-advised with Dr. Brigitte Demes)

Ali Nabavizadeh, PhD Assistant Professor of Veterinary Gross Anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine
Yuki Nakamura, PhD Niigata University
Selby Olson Graduate Student at University of Florida, Department of Natural History
Courtney Orsbon, MD, PhD Residency at University of Vermont, Department of Radiology

M.D., PhD, Pritzker School of Medicine and Organismal Biology & Anatomy, University of Chicago. Thesis Title: Swallowing Biomechanics of the Macaca mulatta hyolingual apparatus. Graduated 2018

Dawn Paulsen 2002 - 2009
Ellen Platts Graduate Student at University of Maryland, College Park
Laura B. Porro, PhD Lecturer in Anatomy in the Centre for Integrative Anatomy in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at University College London
Yashesvini Ram, PhD Senior Scientist at Abbott Laboratories

PhD, Organismal Biology & Anatomy, University of Chicago. Thesis Title: Coordination Between Muscles and the Sensorimotor Cortex During Orofacial Behaviors in Non-Human Primates. Graduated 2017

David A. Reed, PhD 2001 - 2004 Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Chicago

PhD, Organismal Biology & Anatomy, University of Chicago. Thesis Title: The Biomechanical Determinants of Phenotypic Variance in the Mandible of Alligator mississippiensis. Graduated 2011

Annie Rivera
Ana Cláudia Rossi, PhD

CNPq and Capes Fellow

Mateo Rull Research and Outreach Scientist and Co-Coordinator of Research Program, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Leadership-Alliance Fellow

Julia Schultz, Dr. rer. Nat. Research Assistant, Institut für Geowissenschaften, University of Bonn
Ellen Schulz-Kornas, PhD Head of the Research Laboratory, Department of Cariology, Endodontology and Periodontology, University of Leipzig
Kelsey Stilson, PhD Postdoc at Brown University

PhD, Organismal Biology & Anatomy, University of Chicago. Thesis Title: The Kinematics and Neurofeedback of Mastication in Didelphis virginiana

Kazutaka Takahashi, PhD Senior Neurophysiologist and Data Scientist Precision Neuroscience
Treva Walsh
Ryan L. Washington
Katrina (Katie) Whitlow, PhD Assistant Professor in Biology, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame

PhD, Organismal Biology & Anatomy, University of Chicago. Thesis Title: Biomechanics, evolution and modulation of suction feeding mechanisms in fishes