Derek Harmon

About

Biography

I graduated in 2015 with his Doctorate in Anatomy from The Ohio State University. As a doctoral student, I developed a novel anatomy mobile app for integrated medical curricula.

I joined the faculty at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in 2015 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2019. While at UCSF I was the director of the Anatomy Learning Center and discipline director for anatomy in the Bridges medical curriculum. In addition to my role as an anatomy educator, I created the introductory and advanced 3D printing for health sciences electives at UCSF. I developed and ran two iHackHealth Appathon events that brought computer science and engineering students from UC Berkeley together with clinicians and researchers at UCSF to develop iOS mobile app prototypes to solve clinical-based problems.

I joined The Ohio State University in 2022 with a focus on graduate gross anatomy and neuroanatomy, undergraduate medical education, and graduate medical education.

My scholarly work is focused on the development of innovative educational resources for the anatomical sciences, with a particular focus on virtual reality, 3D printing, and digital media. In addition, I am interested in creating collaborative development environments that bring students, researchers, and/or clinicians from various backgrounds and specialties together to create meaningful solutions.

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