Over the past decade at UofL, I have been training post-doctoral clinical and research fellows (from the Div. of Gastro., Hepato., and Nutrition), medical residents (mostly internal medicine and a few psychiatry), and graduate medical and biomedical students. Several have been successful in going to the next level in academia and practice. I would like to expand my instruction capacities. I would involve various clinical and biomedical tools to illustrate targeted intervention approaches and to further the understanding of systemic, physiological, and psychiatric manifestations, thereby improving the implementation strategies for developing precise intervention plans. My teaching and mentoring role extends extramurally as well. I am chair of the education committee of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology. In this role, I develop curriculum for CME/CE and clinical coursework (workshops, lectures, pearls of clinical pharmacology), moderate and plan, and review the presentations. As part of my teaching service, I also deliver lectures within the university, on national residency rounds, and at other universities (by invitation). Every year, I mentor one candidate matched by the Research Society on Alcohol. I wish to continue to teach, mentor, and train using innovation and updates from new scholarly findings.

Previously, as part of innovation in teaching, I developed a graduate-level medical course for three credit hours for the Fall 2010 semester on “MEDI505: Psychopathology and Behavior Evaluation” for post-baccalaureate, master's, pre-doctoral, and postdoctoral candidates; physicians, and nursing professionals for the medicine department at the Graduate School,  Foundation of Advanced Education in the Sciences at NIH, Bethesda, MD. For the coursework, I supervised one research assistant for her role as a coordinator and teaching assistant for the same course. In this course, my objectives were to facilitate medical, nursing, psychology, and counseling students by familiarizing them with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV & V), clinical pathologies and assessments, neuroimaging concepts, and the latest evaluation constructs utilizing statistical techniques. Previously, I have assisted in instruction for a three-hour credit graduate course on “Psychological Evaluation” during the summer of 2005 and fall of 2006 semesters in the Department of Counseling Psychology at Fort Valley State University, Fort Valley, GA. Some of the key efforts that I made were to apply theoretical guidelines in evaluating various psychopathological conditions covered in the course.