WEBINAR—Center for Physiology Education Summit Preparation Event

February 21, 2023
12 p.m. EST

If you’re interested in starting or improving your educational research agenda, join us for our “Getting Started in Educational Research” session. This event provides participants with foundational knowledge and information to best prepare for the Center for Physiology Education workshop “Navigating Educational Research” on Thursday, April 20, 2022, at the American Physiology Summit in Long Beach, California. Top experts help you explore how you can move your own educational research forward. Topics introduced in this session include experimental design and data analysis, navigating education Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) and publishing educational research.

Keynote Presenter

Stephanie M. Gardner, PhD, is a physiology educator and discipline-based education researcher. She has a doctorate in physiology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and did a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Gardner’s research includes revealing student reasoning and approaches with science practices, such as constructing mechanistic explanations and analyzing and graphing biological. Gardner leads graduate student and faculty professional development programs around inclusive and innovative instruction. She is a Monitoring Editor at CBE - Life Sciences Education serves on the editorial board of Advances in Physiology Education and was a research section editor at the Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education.

Speakers

Jennifer Doherty, PhD, earned her doctorate in biology from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a physiology education researcher who investigates how students develop principle-based reasoning. Doherty’s research coherently links students’ developing reasoning, data from assessments and instructional tools. She was previously a teaching professor at the University of Washington, where she won the university-wide Distinguished Teaching Award. Doherty frames her teaching using the Physiology Core Concepts, emphasizing a mechanistic approach where students solve complex problems.

Jonathan D. Kibble, PhD, earned his doctorate in renal physiology from the University of Manchester, U.K. His research interests include the development and validation of assessment tools and understanding the factors that drive student success, for which he uses both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Kibble previously served as chair of the American Physiological Society Teaching of Physiology Section and received the Arthur C. Guyton Educator of Year Award in 2018.

Katelyn M. Cooper, PhD, was trained as a discipline-based education researcher, and examines the relationship between student mental health and cognitive and affective learning. Her research has been highlighted by news outlets such as the New York Times, CNN and BBC News. In 2022, Cooper was listed as one of the NBC Pride 30 for her efforts to make biology education more inclusive. She has received the National Science Foundation CAREER award and the American Physiological Society Teaching of Physiology Section New Investigator Award.