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Theodore A. Slotkin Receives SOT 2015 Education Award

By Raul Suarez posted 01-15-2015 16:14

  

2015 SOT Education Award - Theodore Slotkin.JPGTheodore A. Slotkin is the recipient of the Society of Toxicology (SOT) 2015 Education Award. He has made impressive and significant contributions to education through his use of conventional and unconventional teaching techniques, including open discussions of current literature, of lay media, and of students' own research projects. Through classroom conversations, he ensures that students learn the requisite subject areas, but always within a framework of critical evaluation of hypotheses and experimental outcomes.

Dr. Slotkin has devoted significant effort and time to developing new courses and new curricula, including Essentials of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Drug Design and Experimental Design and Biostatistics for Basic Biomedical Scientists. His ability to teach mathematical concepts to biologists is the hallmark of his success. With a career that spans four decades, he has had a major impact having taught thousands of students, and personally trained 26 undergraduates, 31 PhD students, and 23 postdoctoral researchers and visiting scientific scholars in his laboratory—far beyond the requirements of his teaching duties. In many cases, these trainees have gone on to successful careers in industry, government, and academia due in no small part to Dr. Slotkin’s influence.

He has played integral roles in curriculum development for the Pharmacology PhD Program, the Integrated Toxicology & Environmental Health PhD Program, and the Undergraduate Pharmacology Curriculum for biology and chemistry majors. These are in addition to the key role he has played in other training programs including those in Cell & Molecular Biology, Neurosciences, Pharmacological Sciences, and MD/PhD.

Dr. Slotkin received his PhD from the University of Rochester in 1970. Currently, he serves as Professor in the Departments of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Neurobiology, as well as the Integrated Toxicology Program at the Duke University Medical Center. He received an SOT Board of Publications Best Paper in Toxicological Sciences Award in 1996 and has been a member of SOT since 1997.

The Society is pleased to present Dr. Slotkin with the 2015 SOT Education Award.

 

 

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