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Jordan
E. Warnick, PhD
Assistant Dean for Student Education & Research
Professor of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics
410-706-3026
FAX: 410-706-0094
jwarnick@som.umaryland.edu
About Dr. Warnick:
Dr. Warnick is the Director of the Office of Student Research and is responsible for all programmatic activities within the office. Dr. Warnick established and has directed the medical student (1982) and undergraduate (1991) summer research programs at UMB/UMSOM and the undergraduate and medical student international research programs since their inception. In addition, he has directed or co-directed several other programs including "Year-Off" training grants for medical students from the American Heart Association, an NSF Science Teacher Enhancement Program and the summer research program of the NSF's Maryland Collaborative for Teacher Preparation.
Dr. Warnick did his graduate work at Purdue University, was the recipient of an NIH postdoctoral fellowship and Special Individual NIH Awardee at the Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics, State University of New York at Buffalo. He was a faculty member of the School of Pharmacy in Buffalo from 1971-1974. In 1974, he joined the Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics at the UM SOM where he rose to Professor of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics. He has a long-standing commitment to biomedical research [more than 160 publications (>75 manuscripts, 5 chapters and 80 abstracts)] that most recently centered on the effects of neuropeptides and nerve gases on synaptic pharmacology in the spinal cord. In his educational role, he is the Co-course Director for Pathophysiology & Therapeutics in the second year of medical school where he interacts with students throughout the second year in lectures, small groups and laboratories and teaches central and peripheral nervous system drugs and diseases. He has been a thesis advisor, research preceptor for medical students and has trained several postdoctoral fellows (MD and PhD).
Jean Marie
Roth
Academic Program Specialist
410-706-8679
FAX: 410-706-0094
jroth@som.umaryland.edu
About Ms. Jean Marie Roth:
Ms. Roth supports the second year courses, Host Defenses and Infectious Diseases (HDID) and Pathophysiology & Therapeutics (P&T) I and II. She works closely with well over 250 faculty from 16 departments and all second-year medical students. The syllabi for these three sophomore courses include over 300 lectures, 80 small groups and 30 laboratories, all of which are corrected, edited, re-formatted in this office and then copied. Ms. Roth supports the second year Autopsy Program (Dr. Sandy Twaddell), the development of course evaluations and schedules, P&T exams, all mailings, and ordering of textbooks for the courses. In addition, she also provides administrative support to the P&T Committee (Drs. Jordan E. Warnick & Gary Plotnick, Co-Chairs) and the Year I/II Education Subcommittee (Dr. Raymond Flores, Chair).
Antanett (Toni) Harris, BS
OSR Programs Coordinator
410-706-3026
Fax: 410-706-0094
asharris@som.umaryland.edu
Ms. Harris serves as the coordinator for our Summer and Volunteer Research Training Programs and the MD/MPH Program. She also serves as a liaison with summer programs in the other professional schools. She is responsible for the summer Colloquium on Science, Student Research Forum, short course on Ethical & Responsible Conduct of Research and Medical Student Research Day. Additionally, she oversees the departmental budget and website.
Prior to joining the Office of Student Research, Toni spent ten years at the Johns Hopkins University working in various administrative capacities. Most recently, she was the Senior Administrative Assistant to the Chair and Coordinator for the Summer Institute in Mental Health Research in the Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.
Toni is currently pursuing a MBA in Finance from the University of Baltimore.
Judith K. Pollack, PhD
PROMISE Coordinator
410-706-0657
Fax: 410-706-0094
jpollack@som.umaryland.edu
Dr. Pollack is our newest member to join the Office of Student Research staff. Dr. Pollack serves as the PROMISE at UMB program coordinator. She is responsible for providing supportive community and professional development training in all stages of the PhD process, including peer mentoring programs, recruitment activities, professional development, seminars and dissertation support workshops. Additionally, she serves as the Assistant Director of PROF-it (Professors in Training) and the Women's LiNC at UMBC.
Dr. Pollack obtained her Bachelor's of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Houston and her PhD in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).
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