James E. Swierkosz
     Graduate student
     Adviser: Robert Swanborg
     Degree: Ph.D., 1975
     Title of thesis: Studies on the mechanism of antigen-induced unresponsiveness to
          experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

Contact information (as of 2/1/04):
     Assistant Dean for Student Affairs
     Saint Louis University School of Medicine
     1402 South Grand Blvd.
     St. Louis, MO 63104
     Ph: (314) 577-9827
     Fax: (314) 773-3403
     Work email: swierkoszje@slu.edu
     Home email: NA

Link to Jim at SLU

Current activity: My initial research interests were in mechanisms of autoimmune disease, regulation of T and B lymphocyte interaction, and production of T cell hybridomas and T cell lines. I am currently Dean of Students for the Medical School and am affiliated with the Molecular Microbiology and Immunology Department as Course Director for Medical Microbiology and Immunology. I am in charge of graduate student-teaching in that course. My current interests are in the development of computer-aided instruction in medical education, and the use of modern methods of information technology in problem-based learning.

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