Digital Histology Interest Group or DHIG

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  • 1.  Member Introduction

    Posted 06-18-2014 17:31
    Hello DHIG members!!

    Welcome and thank you for being a part of this community! 
    We are currently just over 40 inaugural members thus far and I think the first order of business would be to introduce ourselves.

    Please post a short (or long) message about yourself on this thread.  Feel free to share your institutional or business affiliations, courses and students you teach, what histology related resources you use, etc...  If you would like me to post your online resource to our page's "Quick Link" section, just let me know. 

    To start off, I am Lisa Lee, associate professor at University of Colorado School of Medicine.  I serve as a course director for graduate histology and graduate embryology for MS in Modern Human Anatomy program.  I also serve as a co-course director for microanatomy for the first year dental students.  Lastly, I teach most of embryology lectures to the first year medical students. 
    I learned my histology with both optical and virtual microscopy (at University of Iowa - Virtual Slide Box). Since starting my career in academia, I have developed two virtual histology labs.  My latest creation is available at: http://leeshistology.com/.  This is still a work in progress, but I am pretty happy with its annotation and game-based quiz functions.  I am always open for feedback and constructive criticism, so please feel free to message me about this resource, or our sub-community.

    Thanks and look forward to hearing from everyone!
    Lisa

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    Lisa Lee
    Associate Professor
    University of Colorado School of Medicine
    Aurora CO
    303-724-7460
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  • 2.  RE: Member Introduction

    Posted 06-19-2014 12:27
    Hi, I'm Dave Bolender, associate professor in Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy at Medical College of Wisconsin.  I teach Clinical Human Anatomy (CHA), Cell and Tissue Biology (C&TB) and Human Development (HD) to first and second year medical students.  For laboratory sessions in our C&TB course we used the virtual microscope (Baccas.Olympus) with an in house lab guide.  Labs were conducted in our academic computer system.  Two years ago we launched a new hybrid curriculum.  The M1 year consists of several discipline-based courses including CHA.  The C&TB course was eliminated in the new curriculum.  Cell biology and tissues are now taught within a new first year course called Molecules to Cells (MtC), while the systems histology has been spread out within the system-based units in the M2 year.  In addition, our academic computing center is being dismantled because all students are required to purchase iPads.  I still teach most of the HD which is now spread out within MtC and the system-based units.  We need to change our delivery of the VM labs to a tablet format, so I'm excited about the DHIG group forming, and hope to learn from other members how we might provide a useful VM experience in our new curriculum.  I also think this is a great opportunity to share slides and images that may be missing from our collections.  It's great to see the robust response to Lisa's invitation to membership in DHIG.   Dave
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    David Bolender
    Associate Professor
    Medical College of Wisconsin
    Milwaukee WI
    414-955-8474
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  • 3.  RE: Member Introduction

    Posted 06-20-2014 10:20

    Dear DHIG Colleagues,

    I am Michael Hortsch and Associate Professor in the Departments of Cell and Developmental Biology and Learning Health Sciences at the University of Michigan Medical School. I have been teaching histology since 1991 and I am now course director of three histology courses at the University of Michigan (medical, dental and a graduate/undergraduate course). We have been using virtual microscopy since 2005. Our Aperio-based virtual slide collection is freely accessible through the Internet at http://histology.med.umich.edu/schedule/medical

    As this Michigan virtual slide collection is published under a Creative Commons license, we have freely shared the entire collection with many other national and international institutions.

    My personal interest lies in the development of new electronic teaching resources. For example I have published a histology self-evaluation iPad app (http://www.med.umich.edu/lrc/secondlook/) and co-authored a histology lab manual eBook series (Don MacCallum's Michigan Histology), which is based on material assembled by my histology mentor, the late Don MacCallum (http://www.med.umich.edu/lrc/dmmh/). My research addresses how the introduction of these modern teaching tools influences and changes students' learning (see Selvig et al., 2014, Anat. Sci. Educ., DOI: 10.1002/ase.1449, early view).

    I am looking forward to a productive exchange of ideas and resources. If you have questions about or interest in our material, please contact me at hortsch@umich.edu

    With the best wishes and regards

    Michael

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    Michael Hortsch
    Associate Professor
    University of Michigan
    Ann Arbor MI
    734-647 2720
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  • 4.  RE: Member Introduction

    Posted 08-06-2014 10:43
    Hello,
           I am Lyon Hough, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Missouri State University.  Here I am involved in teaching Human Gross Anatomy, Neurobiology, Histology and Embryology at the undergraduate, graduate and professional levels.  Additionally I teach a research microscopy course to graduate students which involves preparation and imaging for brightfield, differential interference contrast, phase contrast, transmission electron, scanning electron, laser capture, video capture, epi-fluorescence and confocal microscopy.  I am very excited to become involved with this group as I feel virtual microscopy will open new doors for instructing students both in and out of the classroom.  I hope the construction of a (inter)national slide repository will allow instructors to engage a wider array of students through the online classroom and laboratory.      
           
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    Lyon Hough
    Assistant Professor
    Missouri State University
    Springfield, MO
    417-836-6485
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