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Contact Information
kristen.ramirez@nyulangone.org
kramirez818@gmail.com
Education
In Progress Ph.D. Physical Anthropology
M. Phil. Physical Anthropology, 2017
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology
B.S. Biological Anthropology, 2013
Special Departmental Honors, cum laude
The George Washington University
Teaching Experience
Research Instructor, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY
June 2018 – Present
Histology (MS1)
Human Gross Anatomy (MS1-2)
Clinical Anatomy and Imaging (MS2-4)
Advanced Anatomy (MS3-4)
Human Gross Anatomy Summer Course (PhD, Italian MD, and remediating MD students)
Adjunct Lecturer, Pace University Physician Assistant Program, New York, NY
August 2019 – Present
Human Gross Anatomy (over 2 semesters)
Adjunct Lecturer (instructor on record), Lehman College, CUNY, Bronx, NY
Fall 2014, Fall 2015 – Present
ANT 269: Human Variation (4 credits, online)
ANT171: Introduction to Human Evolution (4 credits)
ANT 120: Human Evolutionary Biology (3 credits, in-person and online)
Substitute (Full-Time) Lecturer, Lehman College, CUNY, Bronx, NY
March 2017 – August 2018
ANT 120: Human Evolutionary Biology (3 credits, in person and online)
ANT 171: Introduction to Human Evolution (4 credits)
ANT 305: Forensic Anthropology (3 credits)
ANT 269: Human Variation (4 credits, hybrid)
Lab Instructor, Lehman College, CUNY, Bronx, NY
Spring 2017
ANT 269: Human Variation (4 credits, 2 sections)
Lab Instructor, Hunter College, CUNY, New York, NY
Fall 2016
ANTHP 101: Human Evolution (4 credits, 2 sections)
Teaching Fellow, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY
Summer 2015
Human Gross Anatomy (6 credits)
Additional Appointments
2023- Project Manager, Chiimera, NYU Langone Health
2022- Anatomy Lab Content Director, Office of Medical Education, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
2020- Director, Anatomical Donation Program, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
2020- Chief Proctor, NBME, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Competitive Fellowships and Awards ($132,925)
2024 Student Travel Award (AAA, $400)
2023 Finalist, Graduate Poster Presentation Award, Anatomy Connected (AAA)
2023 Student Travel Award (AAA, $400)
2022 Student Travel Award (AAA, $400)
2021 Registration Award (AAA, $125)
2020 Student Travel Award (AAA, $350)
2019 Best Medical Education Collaboration Award (NYU School of Medicine)
2019 Student Travel Award (AAA, $250)
2017 Doctoral Student Research Grant (CUNY, $1,000)
2016 Provost’s Pre-Dissertation Summer Research Award (CUNY, $4,000)
2015 Pollitzer Student Travel Award (AAPA, $500)
2014 Honorable Mention, NSF GRFP
2013- IGERT Fellowship (NSF, $120,000)
2013 Sigelman Undergraduate Research Enhancement Award (GWU, $500)
2012 Luther Rice Collaborative Fellowship (GWU, $5,000)
Peer-Reviewed Articles
2021. Prang, T.C., Ramirez, K., Grabowski, M., Williams, S.A. Ardipithecus hand provides evidence that humans and chimpanzees evolved from an ancestor with suspensory adaptations. Science Advances DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abf2474
2019. Ramirez, K.R. Presence of two mandibular canals and distinction of the inferior alveolar and mental nerves proximal to the mandible: A case study. Translational Research in Anatomy https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tria.2019.02.002.
2015. Leung, W., Shaffer, CD., Reed, LK., Smith, ST., Barshop, W.,… Ramirez, K.,…Elgin, SC. Drosophila Muller F elements maintain a distinct set of genomic properties over 40 million years of evolution. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics DOI: 10.1534/g3.114.015966
Published Abstracts and Conference Presentations
2024. Ramirez, K., Harnik, V., Rosenfeld, M., Frenkel, S., and Poles, M. Acute or chronic: best prognosis for anatomy instruction in an accelerated curriculum. Anatomical Sciences Education.
2024. Ramirez, K. and Dorsainville, G. Immersive anatomy: custom VR experiences into the body. Northeast Group on Educational Affairs Annual Meeting, AAMC.
2023. Ramirez, K. and Rein, T.R. Comparison of articular facet and entheseal angular morphology to identify functional signals of the elbow joint in primates. Developmental Dynamics.
2022. Dorsainville, G. and Ramirez, K. Onboarding Design and Deployment for Custom Virtual Educational Environments. IT in Academic Medicine Digital Demonstration Conference, AAMC.
2022. Ramirez, K., Dorsainville, G., Lieber, J., Melamud, K., Clayburn, A., Harnik, V., Poles, M., and Oh, S. Immersive XR Anatomy Teaching Tools: Review of four custom-built virtual spaces, their deployments and educational value. Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Journal.
2021. Ramirez, K., Dorsainville, G., Lieber, J., Poles, M., and Melamud, K. A virtual escape room connects GI anatomy and clinical cases. Information Technology in Academic Medicine Conference, AAMC Group in Information Resources.
2021. Ramirez, K.R. and Dorsainville, G. An immersive web-based experience into the heart. Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.
2020. Prang, T.C., Ramirez, K.R., Grabowski, M., and Williams, S.A. Ardipithecus ramidus hand provides support for an African ape-like ancestor of humans and chimpanzees. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
2020. Ramirez, K.R., Shearer, B., Dorsainville, G., and Harnik, V. Use of digitally annotated and printed 3D models for teaching the pterygopalatine fossa. Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.
2020. Shearer, B., Ramirez, K., Dorsainville, G., Harnik, V., and Rosenfeld, M. Teaching cutaneous sensory distribution of the upper limb using interactive virtual reality. Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.
2020. Dorsainville, G., Harnik, V., Rapkiewicz, A., Shearer, B., Ramirez, K., Alfaro, V., Oh, S., and Rosenfeld, M. Photogrammetric digitization and labeling of plastinated models for pre-clerkship education. Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.
2019. Ramirez, K.R. The neurovascular contents of a unilateral double mandibular canal: A case study. Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Journal. 33 (1): 616.12.
2018. Ramirez, K.R. and Prang, T.C. Manual joint size contributes to flexor muscle performance in suspensory taxa. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 165, Supp: 219.
2018. Ramirez, K.R. Facial asymmetry correlates with geography more than ecology. Journal of Human Biology, 30(2).
2017. Ramirez, K.R. and Pontzer, H. Intrinsic manual proportions affect the biomechanics of suspension. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 162:326.
2016. Ramirez, K.R. Up in Arms: Early primate proximal ulnae show affinities with non- quadrupedal, non-primate mammalian taxa. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 159:263.
2015. Ramirez, K.R. and Pontzer, H. Estimates of fossil hominin quadriceps physiological cross sectional area from patellar dimensions. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 156, Supp. 60: 261.
2013. Ramirez, K. and Richmond, B.G. Analysis of Daasanach growth in relation to ecology and subsistence strategy. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Committee on Diversity, Undergraduate Research Symposium online supplement to the 82nd Annual Meeting, Pg. 31-32.
2013. Schroer, K., Ramirez K., and Wood, B. Mandibular premolar morphology is correlated with mechanically challenging diets in sympatric primates. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 150, Supp. 56: 246.
Internal Abstracts and Conference Presentations
2024. Ramirez, K., Sarkar, S., Dorsainville, G., Estevez, O., Faruq, R., Garcia, J., Kirschner, J., Kraja, V., Polaniecki, M., and Oh, S. Reimagining anatomy and histopathology curriculum for UME and GME. New York University Grossman School of Medicine Medical Education Day Poster Symposium.
2024. Ramirez, K. and Dorsainville, G. Immersive anatomy: Custom VR experiences into the body. New York University Grossman School of Medicine Medical Education Day Poster Symposium.
2021. Ramirez, K., Dorsainville, G., and Clayburn, A. Standing inside the pterygopalatine fossa: An immersive VR lab station. New York University Grossman School of Medicine Medical Education Day Poster Symposium.
2020. Ramirez, K., Shearer, B., Harnik, V., Melamud, K., and Dorsainville, G. Development and implementation of a clinically-oriented advanced anatomy course for upper level medical students. New York University Grossman School of Medicine Medical Education Day Poster Symposium.
2020. Dorsainville, G., Ramirez, K., Baluyot, M., Shin-Kim, J., and McNamara, S. Accessible VR design for medical education. New York University Grossman School of Medicine Medical Education Day Workshop.
2020. Shearer, B., Harnik, V., Ramirez, K., Dorsainville, G., and Rapkiewicz, A. Utility and shortfalls of model based teaching in pre-clerkship anatomy. New York University Grossman School of Medicine Medical Education Day Podium Symposium.
2020. Harnik, V., Ramirez, K., Shearer, B., Frenkel, S., Dorsainville, G., and Rosenfeld, M. Zoom anatomy: Problem based team learning in a modified flipped classroom experience. New York University Grossman School of Medicine Medical Education Day Podium Symposium.
2019. Dorsainville, G., Frenkel, S., Harnik, V., Melamud, K., Ramirez, K., Rosenfeld, M., and Shearer, B. Living Anatomy: A redesign of the School of Medicine anatomy curriculum. New York University School of Medicine Medical Education Day Podium Symposium.
2019. Ramirez, K.R., Dorsainville, G., Harnik, V., Frenkel, S., Rosenfeld, M., and Shearer, B. Use of a modified 3D printed skull to illuminate the pterygopalatine fossa in anatomy. New York University School of Medicine Medical Education Day Poster Symposium.
2019. Shearer, B., Dorsainville, G., Harnik, V., Frenkel, S., Ramirez, K., and Rosenfeld, M. Teaching cutaneous sensory distribution using interactive virtual reality. New York University School of Medicine Medical Education Day Poster Symposium.
2019. Oh, S., Dorsainville, G., Alfaro, V., Shearer, B., Ramirez, K., Frenkel, S., and Harnik, V. Taking the cadaver out of the anatomy lab (Demo). New York University School of Medicine Medical Education Day Poster Symposium.
Invited Lectures and Presentations
July 27, 2023. Recreating classrooms and digitizing field trips: Building learning objectives into the foundation of virtual teaching, Hubs Summer Series: XR for Educators.
September 30, 2022. VR Orientation Space Show and Tell, Mozilla Hubs Community Meetup.
April 20, 2022. Digitizing Anatomy at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Wolters Kluwer Expert Insights Webinar Series.
Collections Visited for Research
American Museum of Natural History
Mammalogy and Anthropology
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Division of Mammals
Museum of Comparative Zoology
Mammals
New York University
Anthropology
Curated Collections and Databases
2019- Present Plastinated Anatomical Models
Office of Medical Education, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
2013-2014 Osteology Teaching Collection
Anthropology Department, Lehman College-CUNY
2013 Primate Linear Skeletal Measurements (contributed)
Mammalogy, American Museum of Natural History
2012 FxJj20 site complex (Koobi Fora) artifacts (contributed)
Archaeology Division, National Museums of Kenya
2012 Koobi Fora Field School Teaching Collections
Koobi Fora Base Camp, Kenya
2012 Archaeo-biology Collections (contributed)
National Museum of Natural History
2011- 2012 EMu, Research and Collections Information System (contributed)
Anthropology Department, National Museum of Natural History
2011 Terry Collection Relocation (contributed)
Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History
2011 Biological Anthropology Teaching Collection
Anthropology Department, George Washington University
2010-2011 National Education Standards through Art
Education Department, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Fieldwork
2014 Mygdonia Basin, Greece
Paleoanthropology at the Gates of Europe; University of Tübingen
Survey, Excavation, Fossil Cleaning and Preparation
2012 Koobi Fora, Kenya
Koobi Fora Field School, Rutgers University
Intern; Anthropometric Data Collection (Honors Thesis), Survey, Excavation, Artifact Curation, Total Station
2011 Koobi Fora, Kenya
Koobi Fora Field School, Rutgers University
Survey, Excavation, Experimental Archaeology, Biomechanical Experimentation
Service
2018 Student Representative, NYCEP Program NSF NRT Grant Writing Committee, New Course Development Subcommittee
2014-17 Graduate Mentor/ Reviewer, AAPA Committee on Diversity Undergraduate Research Symposium
2014-17 Judge, New York City Science and Education Fair (for highschool students)
2013-14 Alumni Interviewer, Admissions Office, George Washington University
Public Outreach
2015- Meet the Scientist, Hall of Human Origins, American Museum of Natural History
2014-15 Contributor, NYCEP Blog
2009-11 Art a la Cart Presenter, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Enrichment Activities
Plastination Maintenance and Repair, June 2023, von Hagens Plastinations
Introduction to Functional Morphology and Biomechanics, Jan 2016, Transmitting Science
Professional Memberships (past and present)
American Association for Anatomy
Association of American Medical Colleges Group on Information Resources
American Association of Biological Anthropologists
Paleoanthropology Society
Human Biology Association
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