Biography
Wren Edwards, PhD
About Me
Wren Edwards, PhD is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Biomedical Sciences and teaches gross anatomy to first- and second-year medical students and the PULSE and MEDacademy summer pipeline programs. She also facilitates an Active Learning Group.
After completing a master’s degree in Anthropology from CUNY Hunter College, Dr. Edwards earned her doctorate in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the department of Biological Sciences at Ohio University. She then served as a Postdoctoral Scholar – Teaching Fellow at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California in the Department of Integrative Anatomical Sciences.
As a broadly trained ecologist and anthropologist, her research investigates organisms’ responses to environmental change through time with recent focus on near time scales. She has conducted field work in Kenya, Tanzania, and Guinea, and currently studies spatial ecology, habitat use, and feeding ecology of the Buraiga chimpanzee community of Kibale National Park, Uganda. She is particularly focused on issues of human-wildlife interactions and public health on the edges of biodiversity hotspots.