Profiles

Courses Taught

Histology

Pathology

Pathophysiology

General Mechanisms of Disease

Skin Bone and Muscle

Gastrointestinal Track and Metabolism

Heart Lung and Kidney

Endocrine

Medical Education

M.D., Gdansk Medical University, Gdansk, Poland

Graduate Education

Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences, Department of Physiological Sciences

Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA

Postdoctoral Education

Postdoctoral fellow in Sleep Laboratory, Eastern Virginia Medical School, 2009-2011.

Research Interests

2009-2011  Postdoctoral fellow in sleep laboratory of Dr. Larry Sanford, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA. Techniques: surgical implementation of guide cannulae into rodents’ brain, and telemetry transmitters into abdominal cavity of the rodents, immunohistochemistry on brain section, ELISA  assays.

2003-2009  Thesis research: “Mechanisms of regulation of proximal tubule sodium transporters in obesity-induced hypertension” in Dr. Anca Dobrian’s laboratory, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk,  VA.  Techniques: cell culture, transient transfections, western blotting, immunocytochemistry, immunohistochemistry, indirect light and fluorescent microscopy, confocal microscopy.

2001-2003  Graduate student in the laboratory Dr.Paul Ratz, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA. Techniques: immunohistochemistry, confocal  microscopy.

Presentations and Scholarships

Selected Publications

Rajasekaran SK, Mazzurco L, Ambrozewicz MA. Solutions to Integrate Health Systems Science Into Medical Education- Editorial Letter. Academic Medicine accepted as of November 21, 2017

Ciavarra RP, Machida M, Ambrozewicz MA, Wellman LL, Breving K, O’Conor D, Lundberg P, Steel Ch,  and Sanford LD. Early gene activation initiates neuroinflammation prior to VSV neuroinvasion: Impact on antiviral responses and sleep. J Neuroimmunology, 2017 Feb 15;303:31-42