Premedicine Faculty
Roberto Lopez-Rosado
1) Teaching. Instructor of Gross Anatomy, Neuroscience, Physiology, and Clinical Skills for two graduate programs. Roberto also teaches undergraduates and post-baccalaureate students at the School of Professional Studies. He holds visiting professor appointments with Rocky Mountain University in Utah, and Florida Gulf Coast University in Ft. Myers, Florida.
2) Research. Roberto researches in the area of biomechanics of the lower extremity for post-stroke individuals to prevent falls and improve their walking ability, as well as health services and outcomes research.
3) Service. Roberto is the Chair of Diversity and Inclusion at the Department of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences. Additionally, he works in the recruitment and retention of students and promotes physical therapy as a viable health care profession by reaching out to underserved areas in Chicago.
Michele McDonough
Michele McDonough is the Assistant Chair in the Department of Molecular Biosciences at Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. Professor McDonough joined the Northwestern faculty in 2008 and has been teaching with SPS for the last ten years. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Cornell University and earned her PhD in Biochemistry while studying signaling pathways regulating cytoskeleton rearrangements at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.