UC College of Medicine, Department of Medical Education

Faculty and Staff

Medical Education Research Projects Grant: Use of the neurobiology of learning to increase student long-term memory, Project period: 2002-2010
UCCOM Medical Education Research Projects Grant: Web-based instruction in central nervous system development

Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award, 2012
Silver Apple Award (first-year class), 2012
Silver Apple Award (second-year class), 2011
Silver Apple Award (first-year class), 2010
Silver Apple Award (first-year class), 2009
Silver Apple Award (second-year class), 2008
Silver Apple Award (first-year class), 2008
Silver Apple Award (first-year class), 2007
Gold Apple Award (first-year class), 2006
The Greater Cincinnati Consortium of Colleges and Universities - Recognition as a Representative of Excellence in Teaching, 2005
Cohen Award. for Outstanding Contributions and Excellence in Teaching, 2005
Silver Apple Award (first-year class), 2005
Gold Apple Award (first-year class), 2004
Silver Apple Award (second-year class), 2004
Gold Apple Award (second-year class), 2003
Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2003
Silver Apple Award (first-year class), 2003
Gold Apple Award (first-year class), 2002
Silver Apple Award (second-year class), 2002
Gold Apple Award (first-year class), 2001
Silver Apple Award (first-year class), 2000
Silver Apple Award. Oustanding Teacher in the Basic Sciences, 1998
Silver Apple Award. Outstanding Teacher in the Basic Sciences, 1997
Most Outstanding Teaching Award-Gross Anatomy, 1996
Most Outstanding Teaching Award-Neuroscience, 1995

Marsh, K. R., Giffin, B. F., & Lowrie, D. J. (2008). Medical student retention of embryonic development: impact of the dimensions added by multimedia tutorials . Anatomical Sciences Education , 1 (6) , 252-7.

Giffin, B. F., & Drake, R. L. (2000). Gross anatomy of the head and neck and neuroscience in an integrated first-year medical school curriculum . The Anatomical Record , 261 (2) , 89-93.

Kramer, K. L., Giffin, B. F., Fox, J. W., & Drake, R. L. (1999). Insulin replacement therapy in diabetic rats using an osmotic pump normalizes expression of enzymes key to hepatic carbohydrate metabolism . Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics , 368 (2) , 291-7.

Gao, K., Giffin, B. F., Morris, R. E., Cardell, E. L., & Cardell, R. R. (1994). Optimal visualization of immunogold-silver staining of hepatic PEPCK with epipolarized light microscopy . The Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry: Official Journal of the Histochemistry Society , 42 (6) , 823-6.

Benghuzzi, H. A., England, B. G., Bajpai, P. K., & Giffin, B. F. (1994). Successful antidote of multiple lethal infections using sustained delivery of difluoromethylornithine by means of ceramic drug delivery devices . Clinical Materials , 15 (3) , 151-60.

Giffin, B. F., Drake, R. L., Morris, R. E., & Cardell, R. R. (1993). Hepatic lobular patterns of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase, glycogen synthase, and glycogen phosphorylase in fasted and fed rats . The Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry : Official Journal of the Histochemistry Society , 41 (12) , 1849-62.

Giffin, B. F., & McCann, P. P. (1993). Altered intracellular polyamines in bloodstream form Trypanosoma brucei brucei: transformation to procyclic trypomastigotes . Acta Tropica , 55 (3) , 181-90.

Lowrie, D. J., Giffin, B. F., & Ventullo, R. M. (1993). The ubiquitin-ligase system in Trypanosoma brucei brucei . The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene , 49 (5) , 545-51.

Giffin, B. F., Gao, K., Morris, R. E., & Cardell, R. R. (1993). Enhancement of antigenic site detection with gold labeled secondary and tertiary antibodies using the immunogold-silver staining method. . Biotechnic & Histochemistry: Official Publication of the Biological Stain Commission , 68 (6) , 309-15.

Gao, K., Morris, R. E., Giffin, B. F., & Cardell, R. R. (1993). Immunogold-silver staining and epipolarized light microscopic detection of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase and glycogen phosphorylase in rat liver . Histochemistry , 99 (5) , 341-6.

Giffin, B. F., & McCann, P. P. (1989). Physiological activation of the mitochondrion and the transformation capacity of DFMO induced intermediate and short stumpy bloodstream form trypanosomes . The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene , 40 (5) , 487-93.

Giffin, B F (1988). The role of polyamines in the growth and transformation of the African trypanosome . Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology , 250 , 651-65.

Giffin, B. F., McCann, P. P., & Bacchi, C. J. (1986). Effect of putrescine on the respiration of Trypanosoma brucei brucei . Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology , 20 (2) , 165-71.

Giffin, B. F., McCann, P. P., Bitonti, A. J., & Bacchi, C. J. (1986). Polyamine depletion following exposure to DL-alpha-difluoromethylornithine both in vivo and in vitro initiates morphological alterations and mitochondrial activation in a monomorphic strain of Trypanosoma brucei brucei . The Journal of Protozoology , 33 (2) , 238-43.