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Wayne
T. McCormack, Ph.D.
Department of Pathology, Immunology
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Laboratory Medicine
University of Florida College of Medicine
1600 S.W. Archer Road, P.O. Box 100275
University of Florida College of Medicine
Gainesville, FL 32610-0275
| Office |
(352) 273-9042 |
Dental Sciences Building, room
D6-18B |
| E-mail |
mccormac@pathology.ufl.edu |
| Experimental Pathology
Administrative Assistant: |
| Ragen Tillery |
(352)
392-6676 |
room D6-17 |
| Fax |
(352) 392-3053 |
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Teaching
Research
Educational Research: Dr. McCormack's education research focuses on the use of
team-based learning (TBL) in
graduate education, responsible conduct of research (RCR) training, and
student peer evaluation in medical education. Team-based learning is being used
to promote active learning and scientific thinking in graduate level
basic science courses (particularly immunology), and to improve ethical
decision-making in RCR training. Although a major determinant of later
professional success, peer evaluation is under-utilized in medical education.
Ongoing studies focus on medical student summative peer evaluation, including
dimensions of professional competence, interpersonal skills, humanism,
and community service.
Biomedical Research: In collaboration with Dr.
Margaret Wallace and the VitGene Consortium led by Dr. Richard Spritz, Dr. McCormack's immunogenetics
research focuses on the genetics of susceptibility to vitiligo,
a human autoimmune disease that causes skin depigmentation.
Susceptibility to autoimmune diseases has both genetic and environmental
components. The genes involved in vitiligo susceptibility may be
important for normal functioning of the skin pigment-producing melanocytes
and/or in the regulation of lymphocytes in the immune system.
Case/control and family-based genetic association methods provide evidence of
association of such genes with vitiligo.
Administration
Dr. McCormack serves the
University of Florida College
of Medicine as the co-director of the
Clinical & Translational Science TL1
program. He serves as a program director for graduate studies in the Dept. of Pathology, Immunology
& Laboratory
Medicine, and a faculty adviser for the Chapman Chapter
of the Gold
Humanism Honor Society. Dr. McCormack also served as the Associate
Dean for Graduate Education from 2001 to 2011.
Service
National:
Dr. McCormack serves as the Chair of the AAMC Graduate Research, Education
and Training (GREAT)
Group steering committee, a member of the GREAT Group
outreach committee,
2012 annual meeting program committee,
and chair of the MedEdPORTAL Graduate
Education committee.
He is a member of the Steering and Scholarship Committees, program chair for the
2012 annual meeting, and President-Elect of
the Team-Based Learning
Collaborative. Dr. McCormack serves as an Associate Editor and
Advocate for MedEdPORTAL, and on the
membership task force and research committee for the
Gold
Humanism Honor Society. Dr.
McCormack serves on the medical advisory board of the American
Vitiligo Research Foundation.
State: Dr. McCormack is the medicine
course coordinator for the Florida Dept. of Education
Statewide Course
Numbering System.
University: Dr. McCormack serves as a
member of the University Curriculum Committee (UCC) and
Graduate Curriculum Committee (GCC).
Community: In the north Florida area Dr. McCormack is active in Scouting, serving
as training chair for the North
Florida Council and a member of the Alachua District training
committee.
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
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BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH |
EDUCATION
RESEARCH & RESOURCES |
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Casp CB, JX She, WT McCormack. 2002. Genetic association
of the catalase gene (CAT) with vitiligo susceptibility. Pigment Cell Res.
15:62-66 |
McCormack WT, C Lazarus, D Stern, CB Stevens, PA Small,
Jr. 2007. Peer nomination identifies medical student exemplars in clinical
competence and caring at three medical schools. Academic Medicine
82(11):1033-9 |
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Casp CB, JX She, WT McCormack. 2003. Genes of the TAP/LMP
cluster are associated with the human autoimmune disease vitiligo. Genes &
Immunity 4:492-499
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McCormack WT, D Ostrov. 2009. Immunology Team-Based
Learning: Receptor Diversity & Antigen Presentation. MedEdPORTAL
http://services.aamc.org/30/mededportal/servlet/s/segment/mededportal/?subid=7729 |
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Jin Y, SA Birlea, PR Fain, K Gowan, SL Riccardi, PJ Holland, CM Mailloux,
AJD Sufit, SM Hutton, A Amadi-Myers, DC Bennett, MR Wallace, WT McCormack, EH Kemp, DJ Gawkrodger, AP Weetman,
M Picardo, G Leone, A Taϊeb, T Jouary, K Ezzedine,
N van Geel, J Lambert, A Overbeck, RA Spritz. 2010. Variant of TYR and
autoimmunity susceptibility loci in generalized vitiligo. New Engl. J. Med.
362(18):1686-97 |
McCormack W, S Litherland, T Brown. 2009. Immunology
Team-Based Learning: Innate Immunity & Recognition of Antigen. MedEdPORTAL
http://services.aamc.org/30/mededportal/servlet/s/segment/mededportal/?subid=7728 |
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Jin Y, SA Birlea, PR Fain, CM Mailloux, SL Riccardi, K Gowan, PJ Holland, DC Bennett, MR Wallace, WT McCormack,
EH Kemp, DJ Gawkrodger, AP Weetman, M Picardo, G Leone, A Taϊeb,
T Jouary, K Ezzedine, N van Geel, J Lambert, A Overbeck, RA Spritz.
2010. Common variants in FOXP1 are associated with generalized vitiligo.
Nature Genetics 42(7):576-8 |
McCormack W. 2010. Immunology Team-Based Learning: Basic Concepts
in Immunology. MedEdPORTAL
http://services.aamc.org/30/mededportal/servlet/s/segment/mededportal/?subid=7888 |
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Birlea SA, DC Bennett, DM Herbstman, MR Wallace, WT
McCormack, EH Kemp, DJ Gawkrodger, AP Weetman, M Picardo, G Leone, A Taϊeb,
T Jouary, K Ezzedine, N van Geel, J Lambert, A Overbeck, PR Fain, RA Spritz. 2011. Comprehensive association analysis of candidate genes for
generalized vitiligo supports XBP1, FOXP3, and TSLP. J. Invest. Dermatol.
131:371-81 |
Blanco M, C Capello, M Gusic, W McCormack, J Hafler.
2011. Peer Feedback Tool for Lectures & Small Group Teaching. MedEdPORTAL
http://services.aamc.org/30/mededportal/servlet/s/segment/mededportal/?subid=8416 |
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Jin Y,
SA Birlea, PR Fain, K Gowan, SL Riccardi, PJ Holland, DC Bennett, DM Herbstman, MR Wallace, WT McCormack, EH Kemp, DJ Gawkrodger, AP Weetman, M Picardo, G
Leone, A Taϊeb, T Jouary, K Ezzedine, N van Geel, J Lambert, A Overbeck, RA Spritz. 2011. Genome-wide
analysis identifies a quantitative trait locus in the MHC class II region
associated with generalized vitiligo age of onset. J. Invest. Dermatol.
131:1308-12
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Lee LS, SN Pusek, WT McCormack, DL Helitzer, CA Martina, A
Dozier, JS Ahluwalia, L Schwartz, LM McManus, B Reynolds, E Haynes, DM Rubio.
2012. Clinical and Translational Scientist Career Success: Metrics for Evaluation.
(in press) Clinical and Translational Science |
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Jin Y, SA Birlea, PR Fain, TM Ferrara, S Ben, SL
Riccardi, JB Cole, K Gowan, PJ Holland, DC Bennett, RM Luiten, A Wolkerstorfer,
JP Wietze van der Veen, A Hartmann, S Eichner, G Schuler, N van Geel, J Lambert,
EH Kemp, DJ Gawkrodger, AP Weetman, A Taϊeb, T Jouary, K Ezzedine, MR
Wallace, WT McCormack, M Picardo, G Leone, A Overbeck, NB Silverberg, RA Spritz.
2012. Genome-wide association study and meta-analysis identifies 13 new
melanocyte-specific and immunoregulatory susceptibility loci for generalized
vitiligo. (in press) Nature Genetics.
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