Professor Lecturer Emeritus
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Mark Nielsen is a professor emeritus of anatomical sciences at the University of Utah where he has taught a wide variety of anatomy courses for the past thirty-six years. His teaching expertise includes comparative vertebrate anatomy, embryology, neuroanatomy, human anatomy, histology, and the history of anatomy. He has taught anatomy to over 32,000 students, which include undergraduates, medical students, physician assistant students, and massage therapy students. In teaching this diverse population of students he has been recognized as one of the outstanding teachers at the University, where he has received every recognized teaching award from both students and colleagues, some of them multiple times. He has also received a number of national teaching awards. He teaches demanding courses that exact high expectations of his students, but he teaches them how to navigate the details of anatomy through an understanding of principles and patterns of developmental and comparative anatomy. He loves to see students eyes light up as they learn to consume large quantities of information with the elegant patterns he shares with them. He has trained approximately 1,600 teaching assistants through his anatomy teaching program, many who have gone on to become outstanding teachers. He is also the author of numerous nationally and internationally recognized anatomy textbooks and software programs (Principles of Human Anatomy 15e, Tortora and Nielsen; Atlas of Human Anatomy, Nielsen and Miller; Real Anatomy Dissection Software 2e, Nielsen and Miller). He is a member of AAA, AACA, and HAPS and is a president emeritus of HAPS.
Sunday, March 26, 2023
5:00 PM – 5:30 PM US EST
