Charles Seidel, Ph.D.

Professor

Department of Physiology

Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs

Phone:	767-255-6303
eMail:	cseidel@rossmed.edu.dm

Dr. Seidel received a doctoral degree in physiology from the University of Michigan with a concentration in cardiovascular physiology. After completing his doctoral training he was awarded a Fulbright-Hays Scholarship to teach in the Nangrahar Medical School in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Upon returning to the United States he completed four years of postdoctoral training in the physiology departments of the University of Michigan and the University of Virginia. He then joined the faculty at Baylor College of Medicine where he remained until becoming the chair of the physiology department at Ross University School of Medicine in 2004. In 2006 he was named Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs of Ross University. At Baylor College of Medicine he maintained an active research laboratory focused on delineating the role of vascular smooth muscle in the neointimal proliferation associated with angioplasty injury and artherosclerosis. He has served as a member of the National Institutes of Health pharmacology study section and as a member of the grant review panel for the cardiovascular section of the American Heart Association. He served on the editorial boards of The American Journal of Physiology and Circulation Research. In addition to his research activities Dr. Seidel directed physiology courses in both the graduate and medical schools. He also was involved in various curriculum reform efforts and in introducing novel teaching approaches. Baylor recognized these contributions to the educational efforts of the College by presenting him with the Fulbright and Jaworski Faculty Excellence Award and the Presidential Award for Excellence in Education.

Selected Publications

Seidel, C.L. and Richards, B.F (2001)
Application of Team Learning in a Medical Physiology Course Academic Medicine 76:533-534

Seidel, C.L., Wheeler, D.A., Richards, B.F (2000)
Use of streaming video in preclinical lectures: benefits for students and faculty Academic Medicine 75:517-518

Kahn, A.H. Allen, J.C., Seidel, C.L. and Zhang, S. (2000)
Insulin inhibits migration of vascular smooth muscle cells with inducible nitric oxide synthase. Hypertension Hypertension 35 (part 2): 303-306

Seidel, C.L. (1997)
Cellular heterogeneity of vascular tunica media: implications for vessel wall repair. Thromb. And Vasc. Biol. 17:1868-1871, 1997