Dr. Dickinson is the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Faculty Development, Director of Medical Education Research, and Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Mercer University School of Medicine. She earned her PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from Tulane University and completed post-doctoral fellowships at the National Institutes of Health and Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She is a graduate of the Harvard Macy Institute Program for Educators in Health Professions and completed a master’s degree in health professions education from the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions. Prior to her appointment at Mercer, Dr. Dickinson served as vice-chair of the Department of Biomedical Science at the Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine where she was an inaugural faculty member. Dr. Dickinson is the immediate past president of the International Association of Medical Science Educators. Her scholarship focuses on how the biomedical sciences are taught in the undergraduate medical curriculum, the application of biomedical science knowledge to patient care, and professional identity formation.