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Lisa Mace, PhD, has taught A&P for more than 12 years after researching heart disease at Vanderbilt University. Her graduate work was completed at CU Boulder. She is passionate about helping her students understand the human body and the fundamentals of why we function as we do.

She has extensive experience at the NIH/National Center for Research Resources/Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research including as a principal investigator. In that role, she gained experience in translational/clinical research, investigator training, research optimization, regulatory compliance, patient safety, pilot studies aned innovation in research methodology.

Mace conducts her classes using an Active Learning Format with very little formal lecture. In her experience (in the relevant literature), students learn more when they are actively engaged in the classroom than they do in a passive lecture environment. 

Lisa Mace's Curriculum Vitae