Faculty


Director, Space Medicine and Life Sciences Research Center
Myrtle Thierry-Palmer, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Immunology
Interim Chair, Microbiology, Biochemistry and Immunology
Morehouse School of Medicine
720 Westview Drive, SW
Atlanta, Georgia 30310
B.S., University of Southwestern Louisiana
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison
Email:  mthierry-palmer@msm.edu
Office Phone: (404) 752-1505
Department: (404) 756-5784
Lab: (404) 752-1155
Fax:  (404) 752-1104

Assistant Director, Space Medicine and Life Sciences Research Center
Nerimiah L. Emmett, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology
Morehouse School of Medicine
720 Westview Drive, SW
Atlanta, Georgia 30310
B.S., University of Alabama
M.S., Atlanta University
Ph.D., Atlanta University
Email:  nemmett@msm.edu
Office Phone: (404) 752-1679
Department: (404) 752-1680 
Lab: (404) 752-1690
Fax: (404) 752-1045 

Mohamed A. Bayorh, Ph.D.
Associate Professor , Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Interim Chair, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Morehouse School of Medicine
720 Westview Drive, SW
Atlanta, Georgia 30310
B.S., Bowie State University
Ph.D., Howard University
bayorh@msm.edu
Office Phone:  (404) 752-1714
Department: (404) 752-1710
Fax: (404) 752-1164

Danita Eatman, Ph.D.
Research Instructor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Morehouse School of Medicine
720 Westview Drive, SW
Atlanta, Georgia 30310
B.S., Morris Brown College
Ph.D., Wright State University
deatman@msm.edu
Office Phone: (404) 752-1174
Department: (404) 752-1710
Lab: (404) 752-1163
Fax: (404) 752-1164

Kamla Dutt, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Pathology
Morehouse School of Medicine
720 Westview Drive, SW
Atlanta, Georgia 30310
B.S., Panjab University, India
M.S., Panjab University
Ph.D., Panjab University
Email: duttk@msm.edu
Office Phone: (404) 752-1769
Department: (404) 752-1770
Fax: (404) 752-1108

Sandra A. Harris-Hooker, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Pathology
Director, Minority Biomedical Research Support Program
Associate Dean, Research Development
Morehouse School of Medicine
720 Westview Drive, SW
Atlanta, Georgia 30310
B.S., Dillard University
M.S., Atlanta University
Ph.D., Atlanta University
Email: sharris-hooker@msm.edu
Pathology Department: (404) 752-1770
ORD Department: (404) 752-1768
Fax: (404) 752-1103

Brenda J. Klement, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Morehouse School of Medicine
720 Westview Drive, SW
Atlanta, Georgia 30310
B.S., University of New Mexico
Ph.D., Kansas State University
Email:  bklement@msm.edu
Office Phone:      (404) 752-1637
Department: (404) 752-1560
Lab: (404) 752-1773
Fax:  (404) 752-1028

Rigobert Lapu-Bula, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Director of Ultrasound Core Laboratory, Clinical Research Center
Morehouse School of Medicine
720 Westview Drive, SW
Atlanta, Georgia 30310
M.D., University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, RDC Congo
Ph.D. , Cardiology, Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
Email: rlapu@msm.edu
Office Phone:    (404) 752-1966
Department: (404) 756-5713
Fax:    (404) 752-1112

Elizabeth Ofili, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Dean for Clinical Research
Director, Clinical Research Center
Chief of Cardiology and Professor, Department of Medicine  
Morehouse School of Medicine
720 Westview Drive, SW
Atlanta, Georgia 30310
M.D., Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria
M.P.H., Johns Hopkins University
Office Phone:     (404) 756-5051
Department:       (404) 756-5713
Fax:                    (404) 756-8972

Gary L. Sanford, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry
Morehouse School of Medicine
720 Westview Drive, SW
Atlanta, Georgia 30310
B.A., Miles College , 1972
Ph.D., Brown University , 1978
Email: gsanford@msm.edu
Office Phone: (404) 752-1504
Department: (404) 752-1501
Fax: (404) 752-1772

Gianluca Tosini, Ph.D.
Professor, Neuroscience Institute
Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology
Morehouse School of Medicine
720 Westview Drive, SW
Atlanta, Georgia 30310
Ph.D., University of Bristol ( UK)
Post-Doctoral, University of Bristol ( UK)
Post-Doctoral, University of Virginia ( U.S.A.)
E-mail: g tosini@msm.edu
Office Phone: (404) 752-5214
Department: (404) 752-1560
Fax: (404) 752-1041

Daniel A. von Deutsch, D.D.S., Ph.D., M.S.C.R.
Research Instructor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Morehouse School of Medicine
720 Westview Drive, SW
Atlanta, Georgia 30310
Director, Analytical Chemistry LaboratoryMorehouse School of Medicine
D.D.S., The Ohio State University
Ph.D., The Ohio State University
M.S.C.R., Morehouse School of Medicine
Email: dvdeutsch@msm.edu
Office Phone: (404) 756-5228
Lab: (404) 756-5216
Cell Phone: (678) 595-0875
Department: (404) 752-1710
Fax: (404) 752-1164