Kirsten Porter-Stransky, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. She graduated from Sweet Briar College and earned her doctorate in biopsychology from the University of Michigan. After completing a short postdoctoral position at the Medical University of South Carolina, she joined Emory University School of Medicine as a postdoctoral fellow, where she received a Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award from the NIH. She has taught neuroscience classes at Oglethorpe University and the University of Michigan. In her current role at WMed, Dr. Porter-Stransky serves as the basic science course director for the Behavioral Medicine course and the Advances and Perspectives in Medicine course and is the neuroscience and behavioral health thread director. She also serves as co-chairperson of the Women in Medicine and Science (WIMS) group at WMed. Her scholarship focuses on medical education, neuroscience, and behavior. She just accepted a position at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Greenville within the Department of Biomedical Sciences.