Paul Standley earned my doctoral degree in medical physiology at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan then completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Division of Endocrinology and Hypertension at the same institution. He moved to Arizona to become a founding faculty member at Midwestern University’s Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine where he directed the physiology division, co-developed the school’s new curriculum, and continued NIH- and AHA -funded research on biomechanical modeling of arterial pressure waveforms and developing in vitro models of myofascial release and other manual therapies. In 2006 he became a founding member of The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix. He has served as an NIH-funded investigator, block director, director of faculty development, Assistant Dean of preclerkship block curricula, and now Associate Dean of Curricular Affairs and Program Evaluation. In 2013 Dr. Standley championed a compressed preclerkship curriculum to allow students early entry into clerkships and in 2016 he began to lead a 5-year curriculum renewal plan to move to a flipped classroom / active learning approach to teaching organ systems-based blocks in years 1 and 2. His joys include outdoor recreation of all sorts, bringing educators and researchers together to solve large issues, and teaching / mentoring medical students to be their very best.