Charles Seidel

Professor and Chair
Foundations of Medicine - Bahamas

Ph.D. - University of Michigan

Office: Bahamas Clinical Site
ph: (242) 350-2300 x2350
fx: (242) 374-8562

Dr. Seidel received a doctoral degree in physiology from the University of Michigan with a concentration in cardiovascular physiology. After completing his doctoral training he was awarded a Fulbright-Hays Scholarship to teach in the Nangrahar Medical School in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Upon returning to the United States he completed four years of postdoctoral training in the physiology departments of the University of Michigan and the University of Virginia. He then joined the faculty at Baylor College of Medicine where he remained until becoming the chair of the physiology department at Ross University School of Medicine in 2004.

At Baylor College of Medicine he maintained an active research laboratory focused on delineating the role of vascular smooth muscle in the neointimal proliferation associated with angioplasty injury and artherosclerosis. He has served as a member of the National Institutes of Health pharmacology study section and as a member of the grant review panel for the cardiovascular section of the American Heart Association. He served on the editorial boards of The American Journal of Physiology and Circulation Research. In addition to his research activities Dr. Seidel directed physiology courses in both the graduate and medical schools. He also was involved in various curriculum reform efforts and in introducing novel teaching approaches. Baylor recognized these contributions to the educational efforts of the College by presenting him with the Fulbright and Jaworski Faculty Excellence Award and the Presidential Award for Excellence in Education.

Now at Ross University School of Medicine he is working to bring together the best physiology teaching faculty possible and to utilize educational approaches that best match the needs of Ross students.

Courses:
Physiology

Selected Publications:
Seidel, C.L. and Richards, B.F (2001)
Application of Team Learning in a Medical Physiology Course Academic Medicine 76:533-534

Kahn, A.H. Allen, J.C., Seidel, C.L. and Zhang, S. (2000)
Insulin inhibits migration of vascular smooth muscle cells with inducible nitric oxide synthase. Hypertension Hypertension 35 (part 2): 303-306

Seidel, C.L., Wheeler, D.A., Richards, B.F (2000)
Use of streaming video in preclinical lectures: benefits for students and faculty Academic Medicine 75:517-518

Seidel, C.L. (1997)
Cellular heterogeneity of vascular tunica media: implications for vessel wall repair. Thromb. And Vasc. Biol. 17:1868-1871, 1997

 

 

 

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