Professor David Shier has more than 30 years of experience teaching anatomy and physiology, primarily to nursing, premedical, dental, and allied health students. David has effectively incorporated his extensive teaching expertise into another student-friendly revision of Hole’s Essentials of Human Anatomy and Physiology and Hole’s Human Anatomy and Physiology (both available on this site). His interest in physiology and teaching started with a job as a research assistant at Harvard Medical School from 1976-1979. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in ’84, and served on the faculty of the Medical College of Ohio from 1985-1989. He started teaching at Washtenaw Community College in ’90. Dr. Shier has recent experience in on-line course delivery, including recording lectures for so-called “flipped” lecture rooms. He has also been in the relationship between pedagogy and assessment, and the use of tools traditionally associated with evaluation (e.g. lab quizzes) as pedagogical tools, often related to group activities.