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Faculty
Principal Investigator, Program
Director:
Patrick J Gannon, PhD
Patrick Gannon was trained
as a physical anthropologist and comparative neurobiologist and has
made seminal contributions to
the discipline that are recognized worldwide. He
is director of the comparative neurobiology of language research
lab and co-director of the Rhinology research lab in the Department
of Otolaryngology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. In addition
to his educational outreach duties as the Defying Gravity program
director, he teaches gross anatomy to medical students, head and
neck anatomy to surgical residents and basic & clinical neurobiology
to biomedical sciences graduate students.
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Associate Director: Nancy
M Kheck, PhD
Dr. Nancy Kheck is the Associate
Director of Defying Gravity and the Assistant Dean of Curriculum
at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She holds a PhD in Neuroscience.
Dr. Kheck has authored two Defying Gravity lessons.
Consultant: Craig M
Rothstein, MA
Craig Rothstein is the creative consultant for the
Defying Gravity project. He is responsible for design, editing and
layout of lessons & labs; producing the newsletter from concept
to completion; writing and designing www.defyinggravity.net; and
working with Dr. Gannon to ensure quality production of curriculum
content. When not working with Defying Gravity, Craig is a writer.
To inquire about freelance rates for science writing or print/web
editing/design, email him at crothstein@earthlink.net.
Additional thanks to:
Dana M. Lewis, Web Coordinator,
Mount Sinai School of Medicine,
Web Development Office
Bernard McCormick - for all
his help with the website
Mount Sinai School of Medicine