Staff/Faculty

 Dr. Timothy O'Connell

Timothy D. O'Connell, PhD
Associate Director, Cardiovascular Health Research Center, Sanford Research/USD Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Sanford School of Medicine, The University of South Dakota.Timothy D. O'Connell, PhD

Degrees

  • 1990 B.Sc., Bioengineering, College of Engineering, The University of Illinois at Chicago
  • 1995 Ph.D., Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology, The University of Michigan

Awards

  • 1990 Graduated with College Honors with a B.Sc. in Bioengineering from The University of Illinois at Chicago 1990 1st Place, Engineering Exposition, The University of Illinois at Chicago. Project title: Optical Scattering Measurements of Isolated Contracting Myocytes
  • 1990-1995 Pharmacological Sciences Training Program Grant (NIH/NIGMS Grant GM-7767) at The University of Michigan
  • 1994 Rackham Dissertation Award, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, The University of Michigan
  • 1995-1998 Cardiovascular Research Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship, The University of California at San Francisco
  • 2001 Finalist for the Richard J. Bing Young Investigator Award (ISHR) AHA Young Investigator Award for Advances in the Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Heart Failure Meeting, Snowbird, Utah


Society Memberships

  • Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society)
  • American Heart Association, Basic Research Council (AHA)
  • American Associations for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • International Society for Heart Research (ISHR)


Sanford Research/USD Service

  • 2008- Chair: Sanford Research Joint Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) and Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC)
  • 2005-2008 The University of South Dakota Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)
  • 2004- Director of the Cell Culture Core at Sanford Research/USD Cardiovascular Research Center


Sanford Research/USD Teaching

  • Director: Cardiovascular Research Center Journal Club
  • Lecturer: PHPH 792-045 Genetic Approaches in Biomedical Research
  • Lecturer: PHPH 792 Cardiovascular Signal Transduction


Reviewer

  • American Journal of Physiology, Heart and Circulation
  • Cardiovascular Research
  • Circulation
  • FASEB J
  • Journal of Cardiac Failure
  • Physiologic Genomics