Dr. Richard L. Drake Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, USA

Richard L. Drake, Ph.D., FAAA, Director of Anatomy and Professor of Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of CWRU, is known as a teacher, educational researcher, author and leader. He has received awards for his teaching from students, institutions, and the American Association of Anatomists (AAA), receiving the 2011... read moreHenry Gray/Elsevier Distinguished Educator Award. An accomplished researcher, he gives talks on educational topics at national and international meetings and has published numerous peer-reviewed papers and book chapters. He was appointed a fellow of the AAA in 2009 (FAAA) and was recently awarded the “Dr. Jose Eleuterio Gonzalez” medal by the Universidad Autonoma De Nuevo Leon in Monterrey, Mexico, where he is an Affiliated Professor of the Faculty of Medicine, for his outstanding contributions to medical education. He is one of the authors of Gray’s Anatomy for Students, Gray’s Basic Anatomy, Gray’s Atlas of Anatomy, Gray’s Surface Anatomy and Ultrasound and Gray’s Anatomy for Students Flash Cards. He currently serves as the Treasurer of the International Federation of Associations of Anatomists. Previous leadership activities have included Secretary/Treasurer of the American Association of Anatomists (11 years), Co-Editor-in-Chief of Anatomical Sciences Education (10 years), the education journal of the AAA, and President of the Association of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Neurobiology Chairpersons.