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Dr. Hoag is a native of Michigan, raised in a small town in the western end of the Upper Peninsula, Bessemer. She received her bachelor's degree in Medical Technology from Michigan Technological University in 1988. After moving to Texas, she completed her MS degree in Medical Technology in 1991 at Texas Christian University and obtained a Ph.D. in Immunology from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas in 1996. She performed postdoctoral research in Nutritional Immunology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before joining the Biomedical Laboratory Diagnostics program faculty at Michigan State University in 2001, she held an Assistant Professor position at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Hoag's passion is teaching, and she currently teaches courses such as BLD 121, BLD 434, BLD 321, and BLD 221. She has been recognized for her excellence in teaching, receiving the Teacher-Scholar Award from the College of Natural Science and Michigan State University in 2005, as well as the Excellence in Teaching Award from the College of Natural Science in 2013. In her free time, Dr. Hoag enjoys water aerobics, long nature walks, fishing, reading, and watching sports.
Department of Psychology