Marjorie Kelly Cowan - Microbiology Fundamentals: A Clinical Approach

MICROBIOLOGY FUNDAMENTALS

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With contributions from Ronald M. Atlas and Marjorie Kelly Cowan

Courtesy Kelly Cowan

Kelly Cowan, PhD, started teaching microbiology at Miami University in 1993. Her specialty is teaching microbiology for pre-nursing/allied health students at the universitys Middletown campus, a regional open-admissions campus. She started life as a dental hygienist. She then went on to attain her PhD at the University of Louisville, and later worked at the University of Marylands Center of Marine Biotechnology and the University of Groningen in The Netherlands. Kelly has published (with her students) 24 research articles stemming from her work on bacterial adhesion mechanisms and plant-derived antimicrobial compounds. But her first love is teachingboth doing it and studying how to do it better. She is past chair of the Undergraduate Education Committee of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). Her current research focuses on the student achievement gap associated with economic disparities, as well as literacy in the science classroom. In her spare time, Kelly hikes, reads, and still tries to (s)mother her three grown kids.

Heidi Smith

Heidi Smith leads the microbiology discipline at Front Range Community College, Fort Collins, Colorado. Collaboration with other faculty across the nation, the development and implementation of new digital learning tools, and her focus on student learning outcomes have revolutionized her face-to-face and online teaching approaches and student performance in her classes. Outside of the classroom, Heidi oversees a federal grant program designed to train and support underrepresented students for undergraduate research and transfer into four-year STEM degree programs. She is also an active member of the American Society for Microbiology and participated as a task force member for the development of their Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Microbiology Education. Off campus, Heidi enjoys the beautiful Colorado outdoors with her husband and three young children.

Tia Brayman

Jennifer Lusk, BSN, RN, CCRN, is a registered nurse at a large academic childrens hospital in Denver, Colorado. She has practiced in pediatric intensive care for 10 years in large inner-city pediatric hospitals. Jennifer has spent her nursing career caring for critically ill children as a bedside nurse, charge nurse, and Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) specialist. She is the CRRT Clinical Program Coordinator, providing oversight and program development for the critical care dialysis therapy. She enjoys her diverse clinical role, which involves educating nurses and physicians, mentoring, researching, writing policies, and quality improvement work. In her time away from work, Jennifer enjoys spending time outdoors with her husband and dog, especially hiking and exploring national parks.

Students:

Welcome! I am so glad you are here. I am very excited for you to try this book. I wrote it after years of frustration, teaching from books that didnt focus on the right things that my students needed. My students (and, I think, you) need a solid but not overwhelming introduction to microbiology and infectious diseases. I asked myself: What are the major concepts I want my students to remember five years from now? And then I worked backward from there, making sure everything pointed to the big picture.

While this book has enough detail to give you context, there is not so much detail that you will lose sight of the major principles. Biological processes are described right next to the illustrations that illustrate them. The format is easier to read than most books, because there is only one column of text on a page and wider margins. The margins gave me space to add interesting illustrations and clinical content. A working nurse, Jennifer Lusk, brings her experience to life on the pages and shows you how this information will matter to you when you are working as a health care provider. We have interesting and up-to-the-moment Case Files, Medical Moments, Microbiome selections, and NCLEX questions in every chapter. My coauthor, Heidi Smith, has brought so much to the book and online material. I dont think youll find a better online set of learning tools anywhere.

I really wanted this to be a different kind of book. Ive started using it in my own classes and my students love it! Well, maybe they have to say that, but I hope you truly do enjoy it and find it to be a refreshing kind of science book.

Kelly Cowan

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I dedicate this book to every hard-working student studying in a health care field.Kelly

I dedicate this book to my favorite people, Ryan, Noah, Ryleigh, and Jake.Heidi

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