Megan Anne Holmes
Assistant Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Assistant Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health, Physician Assistant Program, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, Evolutionary Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2021
Contact Information
- 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
- Expertise
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Subject Headings
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Global Scholarship
- 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
- Function and Evolution of Jaw-Muscle Fiber Type in Primates awarded by Touro University 2016 - 2022
- 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
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External Relationships
- UNESP Dental School, Aracatuba
- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Academic Articles
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Ogg, M. L., A. N. Pennings, M. A. McNulty, M. A. Holmes, J. C. Mussell, and V. B. DeLeon. “Increased Integration in Mutant Mice: An Analysis of the Patterns of Covariance through Ontogeny in Fgfr2 Mice.” Faseb Journal : Official Publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 36 (May 1, 2022). https://doi.org/10.1096/fasebj.2022.36.S1.R5905.Full Text
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Pennings, A. N., M. L. Ogg, M. A. McNulty, M. A. Holmes, J. C. Mussell, and V. B. DeLeon. “Cranial Dysmorphology in the Palatine, Vomer, and Pterygoid Plates of Fgfr2mice.” Faseb Journal : Official Publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 36 (May 1, 2022). https://doi.org/10.1096/fasebj.2022.36.S1.R4223.Full Text
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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 6, 2021): 20210009. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2021.0009.Full Text Link to Item
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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.” J Hum Evol 151 (February 2021): 102938. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2020.102938.Full Text Link to Item
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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.Full Text Link to Item
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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.Full Text Link to Item
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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.Full Text Link to Item
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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.Full Text
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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.Full Text
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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.Full Text
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Conference Papers
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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.Link to Item
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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.Link to Item
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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.Link to Item
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- Teaching & Mentoring
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Recent Courses
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Advising & Mentoring
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Physician Assistant Student Advisor
Undergraduate MUSER mentor
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Physician Assistant Student Advisor
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Teaching Activities
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- 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.
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- Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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Presentations & Appearances
- Discussing Privilege, Equity and Structural Barriers to Liberty . Health, Justice and Society Course. George Washington University Physician Assistant Program. September 9, 2022 2022
- Beyond Equity and Inclusion, Integrating JEDI into the Medical Curriculum. International Association of Medical Science Educators. June 2022 2022
- Integrating JEDI into a PA Curriculum. Physician Assistant Education Association. October 2021 2021
- Advancing Teaching Practice through Peer Observation and Coaching. Duke AHEAD. February 2021 2021
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Outreach & Engaged Scholarship
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Service to the Profession
- Attendent. Teaching and Leading Equity Now. Duke School of Medicine. February 2022 2022
- Member - Program Committee. American Association of Biological Antrhopology. 2022 2022
- Attendent. Racial Equity Institute Groundwater Session. Racial Equity Institute. October 2021 2021
- Historical Research Assistance. Inaugural Black in Anatomy Week. Black in Anatomy Week. October 2021 2021
- Grant Reviewer. National Science Foundation. 2021 - 2022 2021 - 2022
- Attendant. SciComm (Scientific Communication) Boot Camp. American Association of Anatomy. July 2019 2019
- Manuscript Reviewer. Journal of Morphology. 2018 - 2022 2018 - 2022
- Manuscript reviewer. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 2017 - 2022 2017 - 2022
- Steering Committee. Committee on Diversity - Women's Initiative (COD-WIN). American Association of Biological Anthropology. 2017 - 2022 2017 - 2022
- Member - Anatomical Education Grant Committee. American Association of Anatomy. 2014 - 2016 2014 - 2016
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Service to Duke
- Chair of Curricular Taskforce. Basic Medical Sciences Taskforce. Physician Assistant Program. 2022 - 2022 2022
- Lead Organizer. Duke PA Program Preclinical Year JEDAI Meeting. Physician Assistant Program. 2022 - 2022 2022
- Physician Assistant Program. Academic Progress Committee. 2022 2022
- Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. Diversity and Inclusion Committee. 2017 - 2021 2017 - 2021
- Physician Assistant Program. Assessment and Evaluation. 2017 - 2020 2017 - 2020
- Duke School of Medicine. Duke AHEAD. 2016 - 2021 2016 - 2021
- Physician Assistant Program. Curriculum Committee. 2015 - 2022 2015 - 2022
- Physician Assistant Program. Faculty Committee. 2015 - 2022 2015 - 2022
- Physician Assistant Program. Technological Committee. 2015 - 2022 2015 - 2022
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