Myron Zwozdesky

Associate Lecturer

Email: myronz@ualberta.ca

 

Academic Activities

My teaching duties cover the pharmacology of common clinical drugs used in dental hygiene and drugs of abuse as well as basic toxicology by discussing molecular, cellular, physiological and psychological mechanisms of kinetics and dynamics.

Courses include:
PMCOL 300 Introduction to pharmacology for dental hygienists
PMCOL 303 Introduction to toxicology
PMCOL 305 Pharmacology of drugs of abuse
PMCOL 403 Advanced Topics in Pharmacology
PMCOL 425 Problem Solving in Pharmacology and Therapeutics
PMCOL 343 Scientific basis of pharmacology pt 1 (guest lecturer)
DHYG 356 Oral health sciences IV (guest lecturer)
DHYG 455 Oral health sciences V (guest lecturer)

 

My administrative duties include chairing graduate student committee meetings, providing advice to undergraduate students about course content or professional school applications and giving public lectures on pharmacological topics (e.g. Alcohol or cannabis awareness). Reach out for a conversation!

My research duties are focused on developing and implementing innovative teaching technologies, website and app design as well as scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). I am always looking for new ways to deliver PMCOL course content to undergraduate students.