Patrice F. Spitalnik, MD

Patrice F. Spitalnik, M.D. is a professor of pathology and cell biology at CUMC, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She is the Associate Director of the MD-PhD Program and teaches general pathology and surgical pathology to second and third year medical students, as well as to MD-PhD students. She is the Section Director of the first year medical student histology course in the first year Molecular Mechanisms course. She is the Co-Director of the Mechanisms and Practice Course in the Major Clinical Year of the College of Physicians. She recently created a web-based, on-line, teaching source of microscopic histology and pathology slides for the medical and dental school histology and pathology courses. She helped design new classrooms to facilitate the education using this technology. She created and directs a course for MD-PhD students on "Responsible Conduct of Research" in addition to a clinical medicine program for MD-PhD students during the PhD portion of the program. She runs a clinical program for graduate students in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Medicine into Graduate Program at Columbia. She is interested in medical education related to the interface between basic research and clinical medicine and the training of physician-scientists. She has been invited to speak on “Teaching to Large Groups” and is interested in effective teaching methods for learning. Finally, Dr. Spitalnik teaches science to middle and high school students in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City and thereby hopes to increase the diversity of medical students and physician-scientists, by recruiting and training middle school, high school, and undergraduate students.

Email: pfs2101@cumc.columbia.edu