Ann C. Zumwalt, PhD

Associate Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Zumwalt has a strong interest in training future biomedical educators and in curriculum and faculty development in medical education, with a particular focus on inclusive practices in medical education. She also has interests in developing educational practices to bridge the foundational and clinical sciences in medical education and in developing graduate students as future biomedical educators.

Dr. Zumwalt is currently the lead of the gender and sexual diversity content of the medical school curriculum. Previous major leadership positions include: Chair of the Pre-clerkship Curriculum Subcommittee; Co-director of the year-long first year medical course Principles Integrating Science and Medicine (PrISM); Graduate Program Director for the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology; Course Director of Body Structures (medical gross anatomy) course for 10 years. She has taught advanced clinical anatomy topics at all levels of the medical school curriculum. Within the Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology she is Course Director of the Teaching in the Biomedical Sciences course and Chair of the Vesalius project committee. She is also a facilitator in the CASOM Mid-career Faculty Leadership Program. Notable teaching awards include the Stanley Robbins Educator of the Year (2018) and Preclinical Educator of the Year (2010) in the School of Medicine.

Service - National
Dr. Zumwalt is actively involved in the American Association for Anatomy, having served on the Board of Directors, Professional Development Committee, and the Advisory Committee of Young Anatomists. She also represented BUSM nationally on the AAMC Committee on Faculty and Academic Societies.

Service - Medical School
Dr. Zumwalt is the immediate past chair of the Pre-clerkship Curriculum Subcommittee of the Medical Education Committee and its Diversity and Inclusion Working Group and also chaired the impactful Gender and Sexual Diversity Vertical Integration Group for the School of Medicine. Dr. Zumwalt also previously chaired the John McCahan Medical Campus Education Day committee and represented the School of Medicine on Boston University Faculty Council.

Service - Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology
Dr. Zumwalt served as the department's Graduate Program Director from 2019-2022 and currently serves on the Graduate Education Committee. She previously represented the department on the BUSM Committee on Faculty Affairs.

Training
Dr. Zumwalt earned her doctorate in 2005 from the Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her research there demonstrated that endurance exercise does not affect the surface morphology of skeletal muscle attachments. These findings challenged the rarely questioned assumption that analysis of these features can be used to provide insight into the activity patterns of extinct human and animal populations. Dr. Zumwalt subsequently joined the Animal Locomotion Laboratory as a Research Associate in the Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy at Duke University. There she investigated the effects of hypermuscularity on locomotor patterns and bone morphology in rodents. She also collaborated on various research and educational projects with clinicians in radiation oncology, obstetrics and gynecology and neurology.

Publications

  • Published 8/13/2024

    Crosby B, Dumas H, Monroe J, Fabiano F, Gell-Levey I, Noyes C, Sugiyama K, Siegel J, Harris A, Streed C, Zumwalt AC. Faculty Training on Navigating Gender and Sex in Medical Education. MedEdPORTAL. 2024; 20:11427. PMID: 39139985.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 12/19/2023

    Crosby B, Gell-Levey IM, Monroe J, Streed CG, Siegel J, Carter EE, Mulkey N, Zumwalt AC. Comparison of faculty and student perceptions of sexual and gender minority content in a preclerkship medical curriculum. BMC Med Educ. 2023 Dec 19; 23(1):973. PMID: 38115000.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 5/9/2023

    Organ JM, Smith HF, Trainor PA, Allen K, Balta JY, Beresheim AC, Brewer-Deluce D, Brown KM, Burrows AM, Byers KT, Byram JN, Cale AS, Carroll MA, Champney T, Cornwall J, Dayal MR, DeLeon VB, Dunnwald M, Ferrigno C, Finn GM, Fox GM, Geller PL, Guttmann GD, Harper N, Harrell KM, Hartstone-Rose A, Hildebrandt S, Hortsch M, Jackson J, Johnson LE, Lohman Bonfiglio CM, McCumber TL, Menegaz RA, Mussell JC, O'Loughlin VD, Otobo TM, Oyedele O, Pascoe MA, Person D, Reidenberg JS, Robinson RE, Rogers KA, Ros MA, Ross CF, Sanders KA, Schmitt B, Schoenwolf GC, Smith TC, Smith TD, Sumner DR, Taylor AB, Taylor MJ, Teaford MF, Topp KS, Willmore KE, Wisco JJ, Yang J, Zumwalt AC. Personal autonomy and self-determination are crucial for professionalism in healthcare. Anat Sci Educ. 2023; 16(4):571-573. PMID: 37014284.

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  • Published 4/26/2023

    Lai ER, Rukavina NA, Wisco JJ, Zumwalt AC. Comparing the emotional experiences of students in similar dissection- and prosection-based medical gross anatomy courses: A mixed-methods study. Anat Sci Educ. 2023; 16(5):926-942. PMID: 37060250.

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  • Published 4/11/2023

    Keim SA, Harmon DJ, Martindale JR, Lopez EN, Sanky C, Brooks WS, Cotter MM, Davies DL, Doroudi M, Fahl JC, Farias A, Granite G, Harrell KM, Kar R, Kramer KL, Jackson J, Jones S, Lackey-Cornelison W, Laitman JT, Latacha K, Lewis SR, Lovejoy Mork A, Marzban H, McNary TG, McWhorter DL, Merchant A, Mussell JC, Quinn MM, Reidenberg JS, Royer D, Sakaguchi A, Sawyer FK, Topping DB, Wainman B, Wineski LE, Zumwalt AC, Hankin MH. Essential anatomy for core clerkships: A clinical perspective. Anat Sci Educ. 2023; 16(5):943-957. PMID: 36929575.

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Other Positions

  • Graduate Faculty (Primary Mentor of Grad Students)
    Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Graduate Medical Sciences

Education

  • Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, PhD
  • Rice University, BA