Dr. Amy Chew

Biography

Amy Chew is a senior lecturer in Medical Science with a focus on functional anatomy and vertebrate paleontology. Her teaching and research interests include human comparative vertebrate anatomy, mammal evolution, paleoecology, climate change, stable isotope geochemistry, and macro-evolutionary theory. She received her BSc in Paleontology in 1996, MSc in Physical Anthropology in 1998 from the University of Toronto, and PhD in Functional Anatomy and Evolution from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2005. Chew completed her post-doctoral training in the Department of Anatomy at SUNY Stony Brook. She has an ongoing research program in mammal paleontology, which involves annual fieldwork in Early Eocene terrestrial deposits in the Bighorn Basin of northwestern Wyoming. Currently, she is engaged in a large collaborative project investigating the effects of 'hyperthermal' events on mammal faunas during the early Paleogene in western North America. Chew has extensive experience teaching human anatomy to various health professions and has received accolades for her innovations in curriculum development, including the Award of Excellence in 2015 and the Outstanding Educator award in 2014.

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