Working on understanding the mechanisms of dedifferentiation of polarized epithelial cells and how E-cadherin and related catenins are involved with this process.
1997-Present. Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
1995-1996. Postdoctoral Fellowship: Epithelial Cell Biology, NIH Training Grant, University of California, San Francisco.
1994-1996. Nephrology Fellowship: University of California, San Francisco.
1991-1993. Postdoctoral Fellowship: Vascular Biology and Hypertension NIH Trainig Grant, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.
1990-1994. Residency. Internal Medicine, University of Alabama Hospital, Birmingham, Alabama, Academic Clinical Investigator Tract.
1990. M.D., Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA.
1988. Ph.D., with distinction in Biochemistry, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA.