Mariana I. Babayeva, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Touro College of Pharmacy, New York

Babayeva is also a visiting scientist at the Arnold and Marie Schwartz School of Pharmacy of Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York, where she coordinates graduate student research. Babayeva has more than ten years of experience in clinical practice. She also has extensive experience in the pharmacokinetics of renal excretion and in the use of animal and organ models to explore mechanisms and kinetics of renal clearance. She will provide laboratory demonstrations on the isolated perfused rat kidney model.

Dwight A. Bellinger, DVM, PhD
Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Bellinger is also a clinical veterinarian in the Division of Laboratory Animal Medicine at UNC. He has twenty-five years of experience in laboratory animal medicine and during that time has trained students from a variety of backgrounds and with a range of experience levels. He will contribute several modules in this course, including animal experimentation, principles of animal anesthesia and surgery, and the dog and pig models maintained by the University.

Kim L. R. Brouwer, PharmD, PhD
William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Brouwer's expertise is in the area of pharmacokinetics, with particular emphasis on animal models of hepatobiliary drug disposition (active uptake, biliary excretion, and hepatic metabolism). She has maintained a strong translational research program at UNC and her research group routinely integrates mechanistic information obtained in cellular models into descriptions of the intact organ, whole animals, and humans.

Virginia L. Godfrey, DVM, PhD
Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Godfrey has considerable expertise in the management of large-scale rodent colonies, having directed the rodent program at the Biology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory for eight years. This large genetics research program had a daily census of more than 200,000 animals and more than 1,000 mouse strains. She is board-certified in veterinary anatomic pathology and has more than seventeen years of experience with the breeding, maintenance, and phenotypic assessment of laboratory rodents. She currently oversees the Division of Laboratory Animal Medicine's Health Surveillance Program, including supervision of in-house microbiology and necropsy services.

Emily Hearne, MS
Training and Compliance Coordinator, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, Office of Animal Care and Use, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Hearne will provide instruction in animal handling and principles of small animal surgery.

Mary F. Paine, RPh, PhD
Assistant Professor, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Paine has expertise in pharmacokinetics, with particular emphasis in biochemical factors (metabolism, active uptake, active efflux) that influence drug disposition in the intestine. Her translational research program utilizes various cellular and organ models to better understand mechanisms underlying drug-xenobiotic interactions observed in the clinic.

Adam M. Persky, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Persky's primary responsibility in the School is the development and delivery of advanced external coursework. He has expertise in pharmacokinetics and is well-versed in the theory and application of microdialysis.