Joplin Faculty Research
Robert D Arnce, M.D., FACEP Dr. Arnce has 25 years of clinical experience in settings of critical access hospitals, level 1 trauma, heart and stroke centers and emergency departments. |
Bradley Creamer, MS, PhD Dr. Creamer is a basic research scientist with experience in in vivo and in vitro modeling of various cellular mechanisms involved in signaling pathways, and the downstream changes in gene expression in response to those signals in both normal and disease states. |
Robert Rogers, MA, PhD Dr. Rogers is an exercise physiologist that researches molecular mechanisms that are involved in the beneficial adaptations to exercise training. |
Jeff Staudinger, PhD Dr. Staudinger serves as the Director of the MSSU-KCU Stress Research Consortium (MKRC). The MKRC is housed within the Biomedical Research Laboratory (BMRL), which is comprised of approximately 3,000 square feet of office and wet-lab space located 6.8 miles from the KCU campus on the campus of Missouri Southern State University (MSSU) in Joplin. |
Dennis Wolff, PhD Dr. Wolff principal research interest is in understanding how individual cells can alter, especially via intracellular modulators such as RGS proteins and microRNAs, the duration and even the qualitative nature of their response to the same level of extracellular hormones acting through G-protein coupled receptors. |
Dennis M. Abbott, DDS Dr. Abbott is a dentist scientist with experience in wet bench laboratory science, translational research and clinical investigations. |
Anthonio Adefuye, MBChB, MSc., PhD Dr. Adefuye is a researcher and physician-scientist with research expertise in molecular biology/ immunology and medical education. |
Sharon M. Gordon, DDS, MPH, PhD Dr. Gordon's research centers on the mechanisms of pain and analgesia, with an emphasis on clinical and population-based research for which she was honored with the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics group of the International Association for Dental Research award. |
Shireen A. Hafez, DVM, PhD |
Erinne Kennedy, DDS, MPH, MMSc
Gretchen Gibson, DDS, MPH |