Marta A. Ambrozewicz, MD, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Pathology and Anatomy Department, Eastern Virginia Medical School, 2012- present .
Courses Taught
Histology
Pathology
Pathophysiology
General Mechanisms of Disease
Skin Bone and Muscle
Gastrointestinal Track and Metabolism
Heart Lung and Kidney
Endocrine
Medical Education
M.D., Gdansk Medical University, Gdansk, Poland
Graduate Education
Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences, Department of Physiological Sciences
Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA
Postdoctoral Education
Postdoctoral fellow in Sleep Laboratory, Eastern Virginia Medical School, 2009-2011.
Research Interests
2009-2011 Postdoctoral fellow in sleep laboratory of Dr. Larry Sanford, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA. Techniques: surgical implementation of guide cannulae into rodents’ brain, and telemetry transmitters into abdominal cavity of the rodents, immunohistochemistry on brain section, ELISA assays.
2003-2009 Thesis research: “Mechanisms of regulation of proximal tubule sodium transporters in obesity-induced hypertension” in Dr. Anca Dobrian’s laboratory, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA. Techniques: cell culture, transient transfections, western blotting, immunocytochemistry, immunohistochemistry, indirect light and fluorescent microscopy, confocal microscopy.
2001-2003 Graduate student in the laboratory Dr.Paul Ratz, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA. Techniques: immunohistochemistry, confocal microscopy.
Presentations and Scholarships
Selected Publications
Rajasekaran SK, Mazzurco L, Ambrozewicz MA. Solutions to Integrate Health Systems Science Into Medical Education- Editorial Letter. Academic Medicine accepted as of November 21, 2017
Ciavarra RP, Machida M, Ambrozewicz MA, Wellman LL, Breving K, O’Conor D, Lundberg P, Steel Ch, and Sanford LD. Early gene activation initiates neuroinflammation prior to VSV neuroinvasion: Impact on antiviral responses and sleep. J Neuroimmunology, 2017 Feb 15;303:31-42