Kristin.stover@osumc.edu
614-292-1502
Assistant Professor – Clinical
Director of Undergraduate Anatomy Education
Education and Training
Postdoc: University of California, Irvine CAPhD: Brown University, Providence RI
MS: College of Charleston, Charleston SC
BS: Ohio University Honors Tutorial College, Athens OH
Background
Dr. Kris Stover graduated in 2017 with her doctorate in Ecology and Evolutionary from Brown University, where she trained in anatomy at the Warren Alpert Medical School. Her 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, she worked as a postdoctoral research scholar at University California, Irvine in the Neuromuscular Mechanics Lab.
Dr. Stover spent three years as an Assistant Professor of Anatomy at West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, where she won two student selected teaching awards (OPP Integration Teaching Award in 2021, Atlas Club Golden Key Teaching Award in 2022). During this time, she also received infrastructure improvement funding from the West Virginia IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence grant (NIH, NIGMS).
Dr. Stover 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 she received The Ohio State University Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Dr. Stover currently serves 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). She is also on the editorial board for the Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A.
Research Interests
Dr. Stover studies the structure and function of musculoskeletal systems, using changes in morphology to examine how tissue-level interactions influence organismal performance in avian models. Her educational research focuses on enhancing undergraduate anatomy education through active learning and community-building strategies.