In late August, construction crews completed the long-anticipated overhaul of Daemen’s Graduate Gross Anatomy Lab in Schenck Hall. The new facility, funded in part through generous donors, offers an exceptional learning environment for students in the health sciences. The renovation was completed on schedule for the new semester. The first Physician Assistant and Physical Therapy students who entered the lab expressed enthusiasm for the dramatic transformation of the space and how it will advance their knowledge of human anatomy.
The lab features fourteen new cadaver dissection tables, each equipped with an operatory surgical light for dissection and structure viewing. An operating room epoxy floor supports a new autopsy sink. Real-time streaming technology allows for live dissection video or 3D anatomy software to be projected to seven large TVs in the lab for ease of viewing.
An adjacent annex with swipe card access is a study room for graduate PA and PT students and features comfortable seating, anatomical models, two large white boards, and an 85” LED monitor for projecting 3D anatomy software.
“I am extremely proud of the collaborative team effort that resulted in this state-of-the-art renovation to the graduate gross anatomy lab,” said Greg Ford, dean of the Scott Bieler College of Health Professions, “All that the lab and study room offers our health professions students will transform vital foundational human anatomy knowledge into healing for our students’ future patients.”
Linear LED ceiling lighting illuminates cadaver dissection tables, surgical lighting above each table, and multiple wall mounted monitors to project real-time video of anatomy dissection and structure identification are all visible.
Surgical lights are turned on above cadaver dissection tables to demonstrate illumination ability
Demo of PA and PT graduate students learning from a skeletal model lying on a dissection table (to simulate human cadaver dissection) with its image projected to a wall mounted TV from and iPad for ease of viewing by students
PA and PT graduate students studying in the dedicated Graduate Gross Anatomy Graduate PA and PT Study Room. Students are using anatomical models and projecting 3D anatomy software technology from their personal device to a large monitor on the wall
PA and PT graduate students studying anatomy in the dedicated Graduate Gross Anatomy Graduate PA and PT Study Room. Students are seated on various configurations of flexible furniture including couches and countertop-high chairs
Michael C. Geraci, Jr. MD PT
Class of ‘79
I had the opportunity to tour the newly completed Anatomy Lab at my Alma Mater, Daemen University. While many medical and some physical therapy programs have de-emphasized anatomy, Daemen realized the importance of this subject and produced the best anatomy lab I’ve ever seen. As a PT and MD I have used my knowledge of anatomy every day in my clinical practice for the past 38 years. Daemen will provide their students with the strongest foundation in anatomy that will serve as a fundamental part of helping to make them strong clinicians. The direct hands on cadaver dissections combined with computer generated anatomical models makes this lab second to none.