Educational Philosophy:

• Students will have a natural bent towards some types of topics, but everyone has capacity to learn any topic with the right motivation and help.
• My job is to help you to develop study skills and learn how to learn, distill down difficult information on a framework that makes it easier to understand, help motivate you, and to assess how much you know. Your job as a student is to put in a full effort and to see how far you can get using the techniques given, work on developing professional habits, and to stoke your own curiosity.

Most of what holds a student back is lack of good habits, fear of success, refusing to implement advice from a mentor, fear of asking for help, and not knowing how to make healthy boundaries with those taking up their time, or a combination of these. A good professor will offer you advice to overcome these obstacles throughout the course.

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Clark, W.A., Decker, M.L., Behnke-Barclay M., Janes D.M., and R.S. Decker. Cell contact as an independent factor modulating cardiac myocyte hypertrophy and survival in long-term primary culture. J Mol. Cell Cardiol. 30(1):139-155, 1998.

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Decker, R.S., Cook, M.G., Behnke-Barclay, M.M., Janes, D.M., and W.A. Clark. Mechanical and neurohumoral regulation of cardiocyte growth. Annals. New York Acad. Science. 752: 168-186, 1995.