Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 2015
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Assistant Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health, Physician Assistant Program, Family Medicine and Community Health 2018 - 2020
  • Adjunct Instructor of Evolutionary Anthropology, Evolutionary Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2016 - 2019
  • Medical Instructor in the Department of Community and Family Medicine, Family Medicine and Community Health, Physician Assistant Program, Family Medicine and Community Health 2016 - 2018
• Recognition
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  Awards & Honors

  • Best Basic Science Abstract. Spine Intervention Society. August 2018
• Expertise
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  Subject Headings

  • Evolution (Biology)
  • Functional Morphology
  • Human anatomy
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  Global Scholarship

  • Expertise

    • United States of America (Country) 

  • Research

    • Brazil (Country) 
    • Canada (Country) 
    • Czech Republic (Country) 
    • United States of America (Country) 

  • Teaching

    • United States of America (Country) 
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Collaborative Research: Feeding ontogeny at the interface of behavior and morphology awarded by  National Science Foundation 2020 - 2023
  • An Anatomic and Radiologic Study to Define the Source and Course of the Articular Branches to the Thoracic Zygapophysial Joints awarded by Spine Intervention Society 2017
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  Fellowships, Supported Research, & Other Grants

  • Leveraging Clinical Anatomy as Early Collaborative Learning for Duke Health Professions Students awarded by Duke Center for Interprofessional Education and Care 2020 - 2021
  • Function and Evolution of Jaw-Muscle Fiber Type in Primates awarded by NSF (NSF-BCS-1551761) 2016 - 2022
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Holmes, Megan, and Andrea B. Taylor. “The influence of jaw-muscle fibre-type phenotypes on estimating maximum muscle and bite forces in primates.” Interface Focus 11, no. 5 (October 2021): 20210009. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2021.0009.
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    • Taylor, Andrea B., and Megan A. Holmes. “Fiber-type phenotype of the jaw-closing muscles in Gorilla gorilla, Pan troglodytes, and Pan paniscus: A test of the Frequent Recruitment Hypothesis.” Journal of Human Evolution 151 (February 2021): 102938. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2020.102938.
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    • Joshi, Anand, Timothy J. Amrhein, Megan A. Holmes, Joel Talsma, Megan Shonyo, and Andrea B. Taylor. “The Source and the Course of the Articular Branches to the T4-T8 Zygapophysial Joints.” Pain Med 20, no. 12 (December 1, 2019): 2371–76. https://doi.org/10.1093/pm/pnz116.
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    • Wall, Christine E., Megan Holmes, Erik J. Soderblom, and Andrea B. Taylor. “Proteomics and immunohistochemistry identify the expression of α-cardiac myosin heavy chain in the jaw-closing muscles of sooty mangabeys (order Primates).” Arch Oral Biol 91 (July 2018): 103–8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.archoralbio.2018.01.019.
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    • Taylor, Andrea B., Claire E. Terhune, Maxx Toler, Megan Holmes, Callum F. Ross, and Christopher J. Vinyard. “Jaw-Muscle Fiber Architecture and Leverage in the Hard-Object Feeding Sooty Mangabey are not Structured to Facilitate Relatively Large Bite Forces Compared to Other Papionins.” Anat Rec (Hoboken) 301, no. 2 (February 2018): 325–42. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.23718.
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    • Shackelford, Stacy A., Evan Garofalo, Megan Holmes, Konstantinos Kalpakis, Sharon M. Henry, Colin Mackenzie, and Mark W. Bowyer. “Assessing surgical training: a utility analysis of the advanced surgical skills for exposure in trauma course.” Journal of the American College of Surgeons 219, no. 4 (October 2014): e40–e40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2014.07.492.
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    • Ruff, Christopher B., Evan Garofalo, and Megan A. Holmes. “Interpreting skeletal growth in the past from a functional and physiological perspective.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 150, no. 1 (January 2013): 29–37. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22120.
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    • Holmes, Megan A., and Christopher B. Ruff. “Dietary effects on development of the human mandibular corpus.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 145, no. 4 (August 2011): 615–28. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.21554.
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  • Conference Papers

    • Holmes, M. A., and A. B. Taylor. “Heterogeneity of Fiber Types in the Anterior Temporalis Muscle in Papionins.” In Journal of Morphology, 280:S139–S139. WILEY, 2019.
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    • Doyle, Daniel J., Megan Holmes, Daniel Schmitt, Angel Zeininger, and Christine E. Wall. “Gorilla hindlimb muscle fiber phenotypes.” In American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 168:62–62. WILEY, 2019.
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    • Taylor, Andrea B., Madison West, and Megan Holmes. “Fiber-type phenotype of the anterior superficial masseter in African apes: A preliminary test of the frequent recruitment hypothesis.” In American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 168:244–45. WILEY, 2019.
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• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • PHYASST 205: Anatomy 2021
  • PHYASST 251: Practice and the Health System 2021
  • PHYASST 377: Humanism In Health and Health Care 2021
  • PHYASST 205: Anatomy 2020
  • PHYASST 251: Practice and the Health System 2020
  • PHYASST 377: Humanism In Health and Health Care 2020
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  Advising & Mentoring

  • Physician Assistant Student Advisor
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  Teaching Activities

  • • Course coordinator and lead instructor: PA Anatomy Course (PhysAsst.205)
    • Course co-coordinator and instructor: Practice and the Health System 1, 2 (PhysAsst.251)
    • Small-group facilitator: PA Evidence Based Practice I and II (PhysAsst.255)
    • Guest lecturer: PA Clinical Medicine I, II and III (PhysAsst.220,PhysAsst.221, PhysAsst.222)
    • Undergraduate research mentor.
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

  • Content Expert. City of Medicine Academy. 2018 - 2019  2018 - 2019

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