Kristin Stover, PhD, MS

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Biography

I graduated in 2017 with her doctorate in Ecology and Evolutionary from Brown University, where I trained in anatomy at the Warren Alpert Medical School. My doctoral work on the effects of increased body mass on musculoskeletal structure and function in wild and domestic turkeys was awarded the Poultry Science Association Certificate of Excellence in 2015, the Aviagen Turkeys Inc. Communication Award in 2015, and the SICB Division of Vertebrate Morphology D. Dwight Davis Award in 2018. After graduating, I worked as a postdoctoral research scholar at University California, Irvine in the Neuromuscular Mechanics Lab.

I spent three years as an Assistant Professor of Anatomy at West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, where I won two student selected teaching awards (OPP Integration Teaching Award in 2021, Atlas Club Golden Key Teaching Award in 2022). During this time, I also received infrastructure improvement funding from the West Virginia IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence grant (NIH, NIGMS).

I joined Ohio State in 2022 with a primary focus on undergraduate anatomy education, teaching courses including ANAT 2300 Human Anatomy, 4200 Human Anatomy Biomechanics, 4900 Clinical Anatomy and ANAT 5999 Research in Anatomy. In 2025 I received The Ohio State University Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching.

I currently serve on the Animals in Research Subcommittee as chair for the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), representing the American Association for Anatomy (AAA), and Member Organization Delegate to the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International (AAALAC). I am also on the editorial board for the Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A.

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