Professor
University of Michigan Medical School
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
CURRICULUM VITAE
PERSONAL DATA
Name: Michael Hortsch
Present Title: Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and of Learning Health Sciences
Office: Medical Science II Building Room 3742, 1137 Catherine Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5697
Phone Number: (734) 647 2720
Email Address: hortsch@umich.edu
ORCID Number: 0000-0002-3750-737X
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
1977-83 Free University of Berlin, Germany
1982-83 Diploma thesis research at the Weizmann Institute, Rehovot/Israel with Prof. J. Schlessinger
1983 "Diplom" in Biochemistry, Free University of Berlin/Germany.
1983-87 Ph.D. research European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
1987 Ph.D. in Biology, University of Heidelberg, Germany
1987-91 University of California at Berkeley, CA with Dr. Corey Goodman
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
1991–98 Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Michigan
1998-2017 Associate Professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan
2013-17 Associate Professor in the Department of Learning Health Sciences, University of Michigan
2017 - Professor in the Departments of Cell and Developmental Biology and of Learning Health Sciences, University of Michigan
HONORS AND AWARDS (selection)
1980-82 Fellow of the "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes"
1999-2000 Fogarty Senior International Fellowship (NIH, Fogarty Center)
2012 Kaiser Permanente Award for Excellence in Preclinical Teaching, University of Michigan, Medical School.
2012 Inaugural Member of the League of Educational Excellence, University of Michigan – Medical School.
2013 University of Michigan Provost's Teaching Innovation Prize
2013 - Member of the Academy for Educational Excellence and Scholarship, University of Michigan
2015 Endowment for the Basic Sciences Teaching Award, University of Michigan
2019 - Fellow of the American Association for Anatomy
2023 Henry Gray Distinguished Educator Award of the American Association for Anatomy
EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIPS:
1998 - Cellular & Molecular Biology Letters
2018 - Anatomical Sciences Education
2018 - FASEB BioAdvances (Associate Editor)
2021 - BMC Medical Education (Editor: Approaches to teaching and learning)
Henry Gray Distinguished Educator Award Lecture
Monday, March 27, 2023
5:45 PM – 6:15 PM US EST
