The medical school is pleased to welcome three new faculty members to its departments of Family and Community Medicine, Pathology and Biomedical Sciences.
Michael Bloom, PhD, is a Behavioral Medicine Clinician-Educator in the medical school鈥檚 Department of Family and Community Medicine. Dr. Bloom is an alumnus of San Francisco State University, where he earned a bachelor鈥檚 degree in Psychology in 1969. He followed that up with a PhD in Clinical-Social Psychology from The Wright Institute in Berkeley, California, in 1977.
Prior to coming to 汤头条app, Dr. Bloom spent 40 years at the University of South Dakota School of Medicine, first as a faculty member in the school鈥檚 Department of Psychiatry and later as the Sioux Falls Family Medicine Residency Program鈥檚 Director of Behavioral Science. He also worked as an associate professor in the school鈥檚 Department of Family Medicine.
Dr. Bloom has written three books, including Brief Mental Health Interventions for the Family Physician, which he co-authored with David Smith, M.D.
Meanwhile, Christine Pink, PhD, has joined the medical school鈥檚 Department of Pathology as an assistant professor of anatomy. Dr. Pink completed her undergraduate studies in anthropology at Michigan State University in 2001 and went on to receive a master鈥檚 degree in physical anthropology from Wayne State University in 2005. She earned her PhD in physical anthropology from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville in 2013.
Before joining the medical school., Dr. Pink spent four years as an assistant professor and then an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Metropolitan State University of Denver. She has worked as director of the Human Identification Laboratory at the university and also has worked as an associate medical examiner at the Denver Office of the Medical Examiner.聽
Before teaching at Metropolitan State University of Denver, Dr. Pink held a position as a forensic anthropologist at the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency in Honolulu, Hawaii.
In the Department of Biomedical Sciences, Holly Turula, PhD, has joined the faculty as an assistant professor. Dr. Turula is an alumnus of Portland State University where she earned a bachelor鈥檚 degree in Biology in 2008. She completed her PhD in Immunology at University of Michigan in 2018.
Dr. Turula conducted research in microbiology and immunology at Oregon Health and Sciences University鈥檚 Ann Hill Laboratory and Thomas Jefferson University鈥檚 Christopher Snyder Laboratory before receiving her doctorate. Dr. Turula undertook postdoctoral training through an Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award at the University of Michigan in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology. There, she focused on education and research in the field of microbiology.