Cara L. Fisher, PhD

Associate Professor

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School of Dentistry
Faculty - Dentistry
Oral Biology
SOD - School of Dentistry

Cara L. Fisher, PhD

Associate Professor

Dr. Fisher received her B.S. in Health Promotion from Walla Walla University, in College Place Washington, in 1998, her M.S. in Clinical Anatomy from Creighton University in 2002, and her Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences with an emphasis in Structural Anatomy and Rehabilitation Sciences from the University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC) at Fort Worth in 2018. She has experience teaching gross anatomy to medical (osteopathic and allopathic), physician assistant, physical therapy, nurse anesthesia, and traditional M.S./Ph.D. students. In addition to teaching, she ran the summer cadaver prosection program at UNTHSC for 13 years. This program prepared cadaver dissections for use in the physician assistant anatomy course and consisted of dissecting for 150 hours every summer over a 5-week period. While at UNTHSC, she created the anatomy lab component for the Texas Christian University’s nurse anesthesia program in 2016 and ran that program until she left in 2022. She also created two 4th-year elective courses for the medical students at UNTHSC. One in General Surgical Anatomy and one in Orthopedic Surgical Anatomy.

Research Focus

Clinical Anatomy, Anatomical Variation, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Department

Oral Biology

Position

Associate Professor