Mark DeSantis, Ph.D.
Mark DeSantis, Ph.D.
Professor, University of Idaho
E-Mail: starfish@uidaho.edu
Phone: (208) 885-7468
Office: UI/LSS 261
There are three current focal areas of my research, all of which
involve morphological approaches: 1) composition and comparison of adult
human middle ear bones (ossicles), 2) ontogenesis of encapsulated
sensory receptors in camel extraocular muscles, and 3) experimental
analysis of dying/injured neurons and glia.
Biographical Information
Mark DeSantis is a professor at the University of Idaho (Department
of Biological Sciences and Washington/Wyoming/Alaska/Montana/Idaho
[WWAMI] Medical Education Program). As an undergraduate, he majored in
biology at Villanova University (B.S. 1963) and then did graduate work
in anatomy at Creighton University (M.S. 1966) and the University of
California, Los Angeles (Ph.D. 1970). After that he was a research
associate at the Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratories in
Pensacola, Florida (neurophysiology) and a faculty member at Georgetown
University (anatomy).
Selected Publications
Abuel-Atta, A.A., M. DeSantis and A. Wong. 1997.
Encapsulated sensory receptors within intraorbital skeletal muscles of a
camel. Anatomical Record 247:189-198.
Wong A and M. DeSantis. 1997. Rat gestation during
space flight: Outcomes for dams and their offspring born after return to
Earth. Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science 32:322-342.
DeSantis, M. and N. Sierra. 2000. Women smiled more
often and openly than men when photographed for a pleasant public
occasion in 20th century United States society. Psychology 37:21-31.
DeSantis, M. and T. McKean. 2003. Efficient
validation of teaching and learning using multiple-choice exams.
Advances in Physiology Education 27:3-14.
DeSantis, M., P.J. Mohan and R.K. Steinhorst. 2005.
Smiling in photographs: Childhood similarities between sexes become
differences constant in adulthood. Psychological Reports 97:651-665.
