Intramural Teaching Activities

Anatomy Teaching Assistant

• Leading live cadaveric dissections for two classes of first-year students.
• Running weekly small-group review sessions covering regional and systems-based anatomy.
• Developing customized education modules for students with learning accommodations, adapting material across visual, kinesthetic, and verbal modalities.

Radiology Teaching Assistant

• Teaching second-year medical students radiology topics as part of the preclinical curriculum.
• Reviewing imaging cases with students to develop pattern recognition and diagnostic reasoning skills.

Co-Instructor, VR-HEAL (Virtual Reality Health Education for Advanced Learning)

• Co-taught a year-long Bass Connections course developing virtual reality software for training on tunneled catheter procedures.
• Designed the educational curriculum mapping VR simulation steps to real procedural milestones in interventional radiology.
• Supervised student teams across engineering, computer science, and medicine.
• Won the 2025 Fortin Foundation Bass Connections Showcase for best showcase work.
• Project page: VR-HEAL 2024–2025

Instructor, Space Health 101 (Duke House Course)

• Designed and taught a 12-week undergraduate seminar on space medicine, open to all majors with no prerequisites.
• Covered aerospace physiology, astrobiology, human anatomy, and the hazards of space travel.
• Recruited and coordinated guest lecturers including physicians, astronauts, and astrobiology researchers.
• Course materials subsequently hosted on the TRISH Orbit Platform for broader access.
• Full course details

Instructor, Duke Summer Learning: Space Medicine

• Designed and taught a Duke Summer Learning course introducing high school students to space medicine.
• Adapted undergraduate-level content on aerospace physiology and space health for a younger audience with no prior science prerequisites.