Judy Rae Churchill, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy at Drexel University College of Medicine. Her primary responsibility is teaching first-year medical students. She is currently involved in teaching microscopic anatomy and is a facilitator in the Case-Based Learning course in the Foundations and Frontiers curriculum. Within the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Professional Studies, she is course director for Medical Microbiology I and II, Molecular Genetics, and Fundamentals of Histology. She is also co-course director for Medical Microanatomy I & II and teaches in the Medical Neuroanatomy course.
Dr. Churchill joined Hahnemann University in 1986, where she taught histology to first-year medical students and taught cell biology, genetics, embryology and medical microbiology at the undergraduate level prior to Hahnemann becoming part of Drexel University. Prior to 1986, for 15 years she taught neuroanatomy and assisted in histology, gross anatomy and lower extremity anatomy courses at the Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine (now the Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine).