Dr. Peter Anderson is an Associate Professor in the
Department of Pathology at the University of Alabama - Birmingham
School of Medicine where he is also Director of Pathology
Undergraduate Education. He received his D.V.M. degree from
the Veterinary College at the University of Washington - Seattle,
and then went on to specialize in cardiovascular pathology obtaining
his Ph.D. degree from the University of Alabama. He's been on
staff at the Birmingham campus since 1986 and currently directs an
NIH-funded research program investigating cardiac hypertrophy and
congestive heart failure.
In addition to receiving teaching awards, Dr. Anderson has been
recognized for his excellence in pathology education through a
series of regional and national awards in pathology informatics and
software development. Due to the unique demands of the
"image-rich" nature of pathology, he has experimented with
various multimedia approaches for teaching pathology to medical
students. He and his colleagues have developed a Pathology
Education Instructional Resource Website with image databases and
medical education digital libraries. You're invited to visit
this site at http://peir.net
At this University of Alabama website, he controls over 40,000
images, and I'm certain we'll be hearing more this morning about how
he uses these images to train his medical students.
A long time member of the former Basic Science Education Forum,
and now Charter Member of IAMSE, Dr. Anderson has been active in our
organization as an elected member of the Board of Directors, and as
head of the newly created IAMSE Task Force on Technology. This
July he will be conducting one
of the four day-long Pre-Conference Faculty Development Courses
we're offering at our Annual
Association Meeting in Guadalajara, Mexico.
When Pete's not doing all the above for the greater good of
medicine and humanity, he also coaches his 10-year-old son's
basketball team, which he's asked me to point out last winter had an
undefeated season. He also coaches his 8-year-old son's
baseball team that is currently 5 and 5 on the season.
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