{"id":977,"date":"2021-12-22T09:21:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T15:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/aes\/?page_id=977"},"modified":"2021-12-22T15:54:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T21:54:55","slug":"alan-sakaguchi-phd","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/aes\/2022-star-educator-recipients\/alan-sakaguchi-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 STAR Educator Recipient: Alan Sakaguchi, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1639072901938{background-color: #f7f4f0 !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1639494478313{background-color: #f7f4f0 !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-893 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/aes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2021\/12\/Sakaguchi-299x400.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Alan Sakaguchi\" width=\"299\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/aes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2021\/12\/Sakaguchi-299x400.jpg 299w, https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/aes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2021\/12\/Sakaguchi-411x550.jpg 411w, https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/aes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2021\/12\/Sakaguchi.jpg 499w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><strong>Alan Sakaguchi, PhD<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Assosciate Professor<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Department of Cell Systems &amp; Anatomy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Nomination Submission:<br \/>\n<\/span>\u00a0With only three days\u2019 warning, the President announced that \u201cVirtual delivery for didactic coursework\u2026will begin on Monday, March 16.\u201d This necessary response to the pandemic presented a challenge for many educators on campus, but few were as impacted as the Gross Anatomy team. They teach &gt;600 students annually in six different programs from four different schools [dental, graduate, medical, and health professions (OT\/PT\/PA)] and much of the content is cadaver-based dissections. Undaunted, the Anatomy Team adapted quickly and completed the Spring semester courses through an innovative melding of newly created dissection videos, 3D-printed models, plastinated specimens, novel software modeling, remote lab practical exams, and virtual case presentations. These novel tools, developed for the pandemic, will also benefit future students.<br \/>\nHowever, that is only part of the story. To bring students safely back into the cadaver labs for the Fall semester, these outstanding educators developed complex plans. For example, the 220 medical students were divided into 3 groups which rotated through the dissection labs in shifts requiring faculty to be present for &gt;6 hours (for each 2-hour lab). Since PPE were scarce, face shields for the faculty were manufactured using the 3D printer and PPE were arranged for the students as well. Importantly, the team was successful; there were no reported COVID cases from exposures in the anatomy labs even though 3 students were positive following Thanksgiving break! Additional time-intensive modifications were implemented; these included: VOPP-recording of lectures, peer-teaching sessions, and sessions using the cameras in dissection labs to demonstrate anatomical variations.<br \/>\nThus, the pandemic served as a catalyst which accelerated innovation in the teaching of gross anatomy. This accomplishment required the concerted effort of an entire team of dedicated educators working together to ensure that COVID-19 did not compromise the students\u2019 education. They are our Teaching Stars.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button carat-double\" href=\"https:\/\/directory.uthscsa.edu\/academics\/profile\/sakaguchi\">Dr. Sakaguchi&#8217;s Faculty Profile<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1639072901938{background-color: #f7f4f0 !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1639494478313{background-color: #f7f4f0 !important;}&#8221;] Alan Sakaguchi, PhD Assosciate Professor Department of Cell Systems &amp; Anatomy Nomination Submission: \u00a0With only three days\u2019 warning, the President announced that \u201cVirtual delivery for didactic coursework\u2026will begin on Monday, March 16.\u201d This necessary response to the pandemic presented a challenge for many educators on campus, but few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"parent":567,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/child-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-977","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2022 STAR Educator Recipient: Alan Sakaguchi, PhD - Academy of Educational Scholars (AES)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/aes\/2022-star-educator-recipients\/alan-sakaguchi-phd\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2022 STAR Educator Recipient: Alan Sakaguchi, PhD - Academy of Educational Scholars (AES)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1639072901938{background-color: #f7f4f0 !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1639494478313{background-color: #f7f4f0 !important;}&#8221;] Alan Sakaguchi, PhD Assosciate Professor Department of Cell Systems &amp; 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