Dr. Dickinson earned her PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from Tulane University in 1995 and completed post-doctoral fellowships at the National Institutes of Health and Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She is a graduate of the Harvard Macy Institute Program for Educators in Health Professions (2017) and earned a master’s degree in health professions education from the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions in 2019. Prior to her appointment at Mercer University School of Medicine, Dr. Dickinson served as vicechair of the Department of Biomedical Science at the Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine where she was an inaugural faculty member. Dr. Dickinson is the current president of the International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE). Dr. Dickinson’s scholarship focuses on how the biomedical sciences are taught in the undergraduate medical curriculum, the application of biomedical science knowledge to patient care, and professional identity formation.