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Dr. Wolff is an organ and systems pharmacologist who has remained a productive researcher even though teaching has been his primary focus for the past twenty-five years. Twists, turns and false starts began early in his post-graduate research career because he excelled at obtaining in vivo data contrary to management’s hypotheses. Nevertheless, he believes his successes at starting over while contributing to the research projects of others shows him to be resourceful and resilient. The reasons for his ongoing productivity are four-fold: 1) technical writing/statistics skills with a knowledge base broad enough that he can relatively quickly comprehend relevant background biomedical literature and contribute his understanding to the interpretation of new data; 2) computer skills for data/image acquisition, analysis and graphical presentation (Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Cloud, GraphPad Prism, LabChart, LabView, ImageJ, Visual C# programming, etc.); 3) microsurgical skills required for measuring drug responses in conscious or anesthetized animals (usually rats or mice) or their isolated organs or tissues; and 4) general lab problem-solving/fixing skills. His classical pharmacology approaches, albeit now complemented with standard molecular biology and histology/imaging techniques, are still crucial for confirming and integrating the findings obtained by in vitro/in silico methodologies. Because of his training and capabilities, Dr. Wolff has peer-reviewed publications in several research areas including studies of renal function and the pathogenesis of hypertension, xenotransplantation, prostate and breast cancer, asthma and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. He is still always rejuvenated by basic science research, and thoroughly enjoy sharing his curiosity, methods, ideas, innovations and general love of science with student trainees.
Dr. Wolff has also been an innovator in medical education. When first teaching pathophysiology and pharmacology to graduate nursing students via distance education in 1998, most used AOL for internet access which corrupted emailed Microsoft files. Student struggles prompted him to create large crossword puzzle worksheets to facilitate their recognition and learning of testable concepts in their textbook chapters. These methods have been expanded since then such that his medical students at KCU-Joplin can access one or more of 20 versions of a crossword puzzle covering his pharmacology content for each lecture, with his integration of PHP/MySQL providing students the option of filling out the puzzle online with hinting and saving of their progress and/or printing out a hardcopy of the puzzle. Over the past several years, he has been programming drag-n-drop drug sorters with HTML/JavaScript for his pharmacology lecture content. He has also used PHP/MySQL with random number generators to create unique self-grading worksheets on demand for students to provide practice with calculations including those required for pharmacokinetics, acid-base disturbances with expected compensation, and renal function assessments.
Dr. Wolff’s zeal to pursue his own research initiatives has never wavered, but his employment circumstances have persistently hindered those efforts. During his last period of employment at Creighton University, his initial position lacked assigned lab space and was deemed ineligible for intramural funding after grant proposals were submitted; this transitioned from temporary to permanent with the hiring of a new chair wanting his new faculty to be engaged in neuroscience research. When hired to help found the new University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville, Dr. Wolff’s pre-employment discussions led to expectations of being able to use underutilized vivarium facilities at Clemson University that never materialized, after he had personally purchased a significant amount of used lab equipment to jumpstart his research initiatives. With no significant biomedical research history in Joplin, the stated plan when Dr. Wolff was hired by KCU-Joplin was to build what was needed by faculty. KCU has since reached an agreement with Missouri Southern State University that provides its basic science faculty with space now equipped for molecular biology/cell culture experiments, but there currently are no vivarium facilities within a 50-mile radius of the school and still no plans by KCU to build a vivarium here. Lack of access to vivarium facilities at two medical schools was not anticipated. Consequently, Dr. Wolff is setting up an off-campus business that will include a small vivarium built to AAALAC standards. Dr. Wolff will continue assisting KCU global health students with their research design and statistics, and facilitating new community service interactions that may also provide students with research opportunities. He is now also engaging with KCU students to explore his novel hypothesis on the etiology of Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS).
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