The School of Life Sciences (SOLS) and the John Schufeldt School of Medicine and Medical Engineering at Arizona State University are seeking a postdoctoral research scholar in anatomy to join Dr. Rebecca Fisher’s research group. Dr. Fisher is a Professor in SOLS and Director of Anatomy and Professor in the Department of Foundational Sciences at the medical school. The successful applicant will work with Dr. Fisher to develop, implement, and assess an innovative clinical skills and anatomy curriculum for medical students. This longitudinal pre-clerkship curriculum leverages medical imaging, extended reality, augmented intelligence, and other emerging tools to improve learning outcomes. The postdoctoral scholar will collaborate with a research technician and two postdoctoral scholars in the Fisher lab, and faculty with expertise in anatomy, internal medicine, family medicine, radiology, and engineering. The postdoctoral scholar will have an opportunity to develop their teaching skills, gain experience in curricular design and assessment, and contribute to medical education research projects on the integration of clinical skills and anatomy curricula and the impact of emerging technologies on learning outcomes. Applicants must be within five years of their Ph.D to be considered. The anticipated start date is September 2026.
Salary Range: $62,232 - $62,652
About the School of Life Sciences
The School of Life Sciences is a vital hub for creative excellence at Arizona State University, with a community of more than 670 faculty, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and staff. As ASU’s first academic unit to fully reflect President Michael Crow’s integrated, interdisciplinary vision for the New American University, the School of Life Sciences offers active and evolving platforms for collaborative, cutting-edge research and faculty whose discovery is freed from traditional institutional boundaries. To learn more about The School of Life Sciences, please visit https://sols.asu.edu/about/mission-vision.
About the John Schufeldt School of Medicine and Medical Engineering
The mission of the John Schufeld School of Medicine and Medical Engineering is to cultivate physicians who can integrate their medical expertise with leading-edge engineering and augmented intelligence (AI) skills in a human-centered framework and develop innovative solutions to healthcare challenges. Graduates of the school will be equipped to identify, envision, and implement creative answers to the evolving obstacles in health care for their individual patients, communities, and beyond. To learn more about The John Schufeldt School of Medicine and Medical Engineering, please visit https://medicine.asu.edu/.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is the academic heart of Arizona State University, committed to improving communities on a local, national, and global scale. We support the professional development and growth of our faculty and staff in their cutting-edge research to advance these aims. Within The College, our faculty engage with a large, curious student body, guiding them as they grow into socially aware, critical thinkers and writers able to succeed in a wide range of careers and to address the challenges of the twenty-first century. Advancing the success of our students remains our top priority. To learn more about The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, please visit https://thecollege.asu.edu.
ASU exemplifies a new prototype for the American public research university. As articulated in the ASU Charter, ASU is a comprehensive public research university, measured not by whom it excludes, but by whom it includes and how they succeed; advancing research and discovery of public value; and assuming fundamental responsibility for the economic, social, cultural, and overall health of the communities it serves.
