David Shier,
Washtenaw Community College Jackie L. Butler,
Grayson County College Ricki Lewis,
Contributing Editor to The Scientist
ISBN: 0072829532 Copyright year: 2007
About the Authors
David Shier
David Shier has accumulated twenty-eight years of experience teaching anatomy and physiology, primarily to premedical, nursing, dental, and allied health students. He has effectively incorporated his extensive teaching experience into another student-friendly revision of Hole’s Human Anatomy and Physiology and Hole’s Essentials of Human Anatomy and Physiology. David has published numerous papers and abstracts in the areas of renal and cardiovascular physiology, the endocrinology of fluid and electrolyte balance, and hypertension. A faculty member in the Life Science Department at Washtenaw Community College, he is actively involved in a number of projects dealing with assessment, articulation, and the incorporation of technology into instructional design. David holds a Ph.D. in physiology from the University of Michigan.Jackie Butler
Jackie Butler’s professional background includes work at the University of Texas Health Science Center conducting research about the genetics of bilateral retinoblastoma. She later worked at Houston’s M. D. Anderson Hospital conducting research on remission in leukemia patients. Now a popular educator at Grayson County College, Jackie teaches microbiology and human anatomy and physiology for health science majors. Her experience and work with students of various educational backgrounds have contributed significantly to another revision of Hole’s Human Anatomy and Physiology and Hole’s Essentials of Human Anatomy and Physiology. Jackie Butler received her B.S. and M.S. degrees from Texas A/M University, focusing on microbiology, including courses in immunology and epidemiology. Ricki Lewis
Ricki Lewis, author of the McGraw- Hill textbooks Life and Human Genetics, combines the skills of scientist and journalist. Since earning her Ph.D. in genetics from Indiana University in 1980, she has published more than 3,000 articles in scientific and popular publications. Today Ricki contributes regularly to The Scientist, Nature, and Applied Neurology; has published an essay collection, Discovery: Windows on the Life Sciences; and is writing a screenplay She has been a genetic counselor for a private medical practice in upstate New York for more than 20 years, and is a hospice volunteer. Ricki brings a molecular, cellular, and genetics perspective, with a journalistic flair, to Hole’s Human Anatomy and Physiology and Hole’s Essentials of Human Anatomy and Physiology.
2007