Dr. Jennifer Hellier: Anatomy in Clay® is a Useful Tool at All Academic Levels

Jennifer L. Hellier, PhD, is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and the Assistant Director of Pre-Health Advising at the University of Denver. Dr. Hellier earned her master and doctoral degrees in Anatomy and Neurobiology from Colorado State University and completed her Bachelor of Science at the University of Southern California in Biomedical Engineering. Previous to her position at DU, Dr. Hellier was an Assistant Professor in Family Medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, where she was the Associate Director of the Colorado Area Health Education Center Program Office (COAHEC). In this position, Dr. Hellier developed dozens of pipeline programs for students interested in pre-health professions. Concurrently, Dr. Hellier performed peer-reviewed scientific research in schizophrenia, olfaction, and epilepsy in a neuroscience lab. Earlier in her career, Dr. Hellier was an instructor in the Neurology Department at Harvard Medical School, and a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Colorado Health Science Campus. Dr. Hellier is the lead editor and author of two ABC-CLIO encyclopedias, the first is entitled: The Brain, the Nervous System, and Their Diseases (December 2014); and the second is The Five Senses and Beyond: The Encyclopedia of Perception (December 2016). Intro and Outro music "Viscious Pen" courtesy of Moby Gratis