Meet Dr. Wasser…
Dr. Jeremy Wasser Jeremy Wasser is an Associate Professor with a joint appointment between the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the Texas A&M College of Medicine.
Dr. Wasser’s global classroom uses interdisciplinary pedagogy to engage students in an environment in which the cultural surroundings of their host country inspires academic coursework. From January to July each year Dr. Wasser serves as the program leader for multiple faculty-led study abroad programs. These undergraduate programs focus on the history of medicine (human and veterinary) and provide future doctors and science researchers with a foundation in the medical humanities. His programs integrate physiological education with problem solving and project-driven research. Dr. Wasser works with students in bioengineering and biomedical science to solve real world problems in innovative and strategic ways.
Dr. Wasser uses active learning strategies and is informed by his professional training in opera and theatre, including the performance of his unique personas for lectures in the history of medicine at specific site visits abroad. A 16th century plague doctor who tours students through the streets and crypts of Vienna and a 12th century Franciscan monk who teaches students about the life of the Benedictine abbess, visionary and healer, Hildegard von Bingen as part of a tour through the museum on the Rhine River dedicated to her are just two examples. In Colmar, France at the Museum Unterlinden, he narrates the variety and use of early medicinal plants to treat ergotism as depicted in the famous early 16th century Isenheim Altarpiece by the painter, Matthias Gruenewald.
Along with his scientific publications, Wasser has written and lectured on the culture of disease, the history of public health and health policy, and the history of human experimentation. Wasser is a member of the International Association of Medical Science Educators, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Physiological Society and is currently creating a series of video lectures relating important moments of medical discovery to contemporary young professionals.