Presenting Author
University of Central Florida College of Medicine
Laurel Gorman, founding faculty, associate professor of pharmacology, and director of preclinical pharmacology curriculum for the University of Central Florida College of Medicine has served on the ASPET Division of Pharmacology Education (DPE) Executive Committee since 2016. She was elected Chair of the ASPET DPE from 2018-2020 and was inducted as a Fellow of the Academy of Pharmacology Educators (F.A.P.E.) in 2016. She currently serves as a US representative on the IUPHAR EDU Core Concepts in Pharmacology Education global project where she co-directs the pharmacodynamics division. A passionate pharmacology educator with over 20 years of teaching experience, she has received numerous awards for teaching quality, innovations, and pharmacology educational scholarship. She has chaired or been invited to present at numerous workshops, focus groups, educational symposia, webinars, and/or abstracts on pharmacology integration, active learning methods (topics include simulations, TBL, gamification, flipped classrooms) for medical educational organizations that include ASPET, the International Academy of Medical School Educators (IAMSE), the AAMC Southern Group on Educational Affairs, and the Canadian Society of Pharmacology and Therapeutics. She has published several peer-reviewed manuscripts on educational research and disseminated her findings at peer-reviewed respected national and international medical education meetings.