Faculty of Resident Instruction

Jane A. Kent, Professor and Department Chair, B.A., California State University, Long Beach, 1980; M.A., California State University, Long Beach, 1983; Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1987.

Sofiya Alhassan, Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director, B.S., Stetson University, 1996; M.S., Auburn University, 2000; Ph.D., Auburn University, 2004; Postdoctoral Fellowship, Stanford University School of Medicine.

Katherine Boyer, Associate Professor, B.S., Queen's University, 2001; Ph.D., University of Calgary, 2006; Postdoctoral Fellowship, Stanford University.

Stuart Chipkin, Research Professor, B.S., Emory University, 1978; M.D., SUNY Downstate Medical Center, 1982; Fellowship in Endocrinology, University of Massachusetts Worcester, 1988.

Edward Debold, Associate Professor, Associate Graduate Program Director, B.S., Seton Hall University, 1992; M.S., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1997; Ph.D., Marquette University, 2002; Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Vermont, 2008.

Elizabeth Frechette, Senior Lecturer, Undergraduate Program Director and Chief Academic Advisor, B.A., Mount Holyoke College, 2000; M.S., Smith College, 2010.

Jay Gump, Senior Lecturer, B.S., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1990; M.S. Colorado State University, 1997; Ph.D., University of Vermont, 2001; Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California San Francisco Cancer Center.

Wouter Hoogkamer, Assistant Professor, B.S., M.S., Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, 2003, 2006; M.S. VU University, Amsterdam, 2010; Ph.D., KU Leuven, 2014; Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Colorado, 2015.

Judi LaBranche, Senior Lecturer, B.S., Springfield College, 1992; M.S., Springfield College, 1994.

Gwenael Layec, Assistant Professor, M.S., University of Montpellier, France, 2004; Ph.D., University of the Mediterranean, France, 2008; Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Utah, 2010.

Doug Martini, Assistant Professor, B.A., Augustana College, 2008; M.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2015; Postdoctoral Fellowship, Oregon Health & Science University, 2015.

Mark Miller, Assistant Professor, B.S., University of Colorado, 1992; M.S., University of Colorado, 1994; Ph.D., University of Vermont, 2002; Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Amanda Paluch, Assistant Professor, B.S., Ohio State University, 2009; Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 2014; Postdoctoral Fellowship, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 2016.

Katie (Becofsky) Potter, Assistant Professor, B.A., State University of New York at New Paltz, 2008; M.S., University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2010; Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 2014; Postdoctoral Fellowship, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and the Miriam Hospital, 2016.

Sarah Roelker, Associate Professor, B.S., Ohio State University, 2012; M.S., Ohio State University, 2015; Ph.D., Ohio State University, 2017; Postdoctoral Fellowship,University of Texas at Austin, 2017.

John Sirard, Associate Professor, B.S., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1991; M.S., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1997; Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 2003; Postdoctoral Fellowship, Stanford University School of Medicine.

Thomas St. Laurent, Senior Lecturer, B.S., James Madison University, 2003; M.S., James Madison University, 2005.

Richard Van Emmerik, Professor, B.S., Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1984; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1990; Postdoctoral Fellowship, Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences.