Biography

About Me

Eduard I. Dedkov, MD, PhD, joined CMSRU in August of 2016 as an Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences. He serves as a facilitator for an Active Learning Group and teaches the Histology/Virtual Microscopy related sessions of CMSRU’s M1 and M2 courses. Dr. Dedkov earned his degree in Medicine (1993) and his doctorate in Histology/Embryology (1996) from Orenburg State Medical Academy in Russian Federation. He then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Cell and Developmental Biology at University of Michigan Medical School (1996-2003). Prior to joining the faculty at CMSRU, Dr. Dedkov was an Assistant Research Scientist at University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine (2003-2006), where he conduct research in the area of cardiovascular development and aging-related diseases, and then, an Assistant Professor at New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine in Old Westbury, Long Island (2006-2016), where he taught first and second year medical students in system-based curriculum on topics related to physiology, pathophysiology and histology as well as served as a facilitator in problem-based learning sessions. Dr. Dedkov’s current research interests are focused on the following three areas: 1) structural and functional basis of sex-related differences in progression of myocardial infarction-induced heart failure, 2) the mechanism of anti-fibrotic effect of ivabradine-induced heart rate reduction in post-myocardial infarcted heart and 3) the modulatory role of cardiac neuropeptides in development of coronary vascular system. During his career, Dr. Dedkov has published 33 peer-reviewed research articles, one book chapter and numerous research meeting abstracts. He has served as a grant reviewer for American Heart Association (2008-2013) and as a member of annual meeting program coordinating committee for American Association of Anatomists (2007-2015). Dr. Dedkov organized and chaired 6 oral scientific sessions at the Experimental Biology conferences (2008; 2009; 2010; 2011; and 2014). He is an active member of the American Heart Association, International Society for Heart Research, American Association of Anatomists and the American Physiological Society.