Patrick W. Bankston, Ph.D.
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Assistant Dean Director of Indiana University School of Medicine - Northwest Teaches in Step 2 Human Structure and is Course Director of Step 7 |
Education
- Hobart College, Geneva, NY; 1968 B.A. Biology
- University of Chicago, 1973 Ph.D. Anatomy
Memberships
- Electron Microscopy Society of America
- American Association of Anatomists
- Sigma XI
- American Society for Cell Biology
Research Interests
My research interest is in microvascular structure and function, including the fetal and neonatal cardiovascular system. I am particularly interested in heterogeneity found in endothelial cells which may reflect organ and tissue specific differentiation of endothelial cells. I have recently been using lectins detected with light and electron microscopic histochemistry as markers for heterogeneity among differently sized vessels in different organs.
Biography
Dr. Pat Bankston received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1973. After a short stint at the former Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia, he joined the Indiana University School of Medicine faculty in 1978 as an Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology. He has spent his entire career as an educator, researcher and administrator at the Northwest Center, rising through the academic ranks, to become Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology in 1991. His research career has focused on endothelial cell biology where he has published numerous research papers, including one collaborating with a Nobel Prize recipient. He supervised the training of three Ph.D. students in his laboratory. He has been active in medical education pedagogy, especially in the areas of Problem-based Learning and Competency Education. Administratively, he has served on every named committee at the Northwest Center and many statewide committees. In 1996 he became one of the pioneering designers of the School of Medicine Competency-enhanced Curriculum and served as one of nine statewide Competency Directors responsible for design and implementation of this innovative and nationally recognized curriculum. He was appointed Assistant Dean and Director of Indiana University School of Medicine - Northwest in 2005.
Selected Publications
Bankston, P.W. and R.M. Pino. The Development of the Sinusoids of Fetal Rat Liver: Morphology of Endothelial Cells, Kupffer Cells, and the Transmural Migration of Blood Cells into the Sinuosids. Am.J. Anat. 159, 1-15 1980.
Porter, G. A. and P.W. Bankston. The Maturation of Myocaridal Capillaries in the
Fetal and Neonatal Rat: An Ultrastructural Study with a Morphometric Analysis of the Vesicle Population. Am. J. Anat. 178, 116-125, 1987.
Porter, G.A. and P.W. Bankston. The Functional Maturation of Myocardial Capillaries in the Fetal and Neonatal Rat: Permeability Characteristies of Developing Myocardial Capillaries. Am. J. Anat. 180, 323-331 1987.
Bankston, P.W., G.A. Porter, A. J. Milici and G.E. Palade. Differential and Specific
Labeling of Vascular Endothelial Cells of the Rat Lung by Lycopersican esculentum and Griffonia simplicifolia lectins. European J. Cell Biology 54, 187-195 1991.
