
Alisa Winkler, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Endowed Title Distinguished Teaching Professor
School Medical School
Department Surgery
Education
- Graduate School
- University of Texas-Austin , Geology
- Graduate School
- Southern Methodist University (1990), Geology
Research Interest
- Functional morphology (mammals)
- Mammalian paleontology
- Medical education
Publications
Featured Publications
- Embryology, Anatomy, and Radiology of Cervical Cysts and Cleft Lip/Palate: A Team-Based Learning Module for Medical Students.
- Prange-Kiel J, Champine JG, Winkler AJ, Twickler DM, MedEdPORTAL 2016 Oct 12 10484
- Forelimb anatomy of the leporid Serengetilagus from Laetoli, Tanzania: functional and taxonomic implications.
- Winkler, A., D. Winkler, and T. Harrison. Hist. Biol. 2016 (1-2) 28 252-263
- Fossil lagomorphs from the Potwar Plateau, Pakistan.
- Winkler, A. J., L. J. Flynn, and Y. Tomida. Palaeontologia Electronica 2011 14 3 1-16
- Chapter 18: Lagomorpha
- A. J. Winkler, and D. M. Avery Cenozoic Mammals of Africa (L. Werdelin and W. J. Sanders, eds.), University of California Press 2010 263-305
- Chapter 17: Rodentia.
- Winkler, A. J., C. Denys, and D. M. Avery L. Werdelin and W. J. Sanders, eds.), Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. University of California Press, Berkeley 2010 263-305
- Bone strain following application of a rigid bone plate: an in vitro study in human mandibles.
- Throckmorton GS, Ellis E, Winkler AJ, Dechow PC J. Oral Maxillofac. Surg. 1992 Oct 50 10 1066-73; discussion 1073-4
Books
Featured Books
Advances in integrative taxonomy and evolution of African murid rodents: how morphological trees hide the molecular forest.. In Evolution of the Rodents: Advances in Phylogeny, Functional Morphology and Development
C. Denys and A. Winkler (2015). Cambridge, England, Cambridge University Press
Honors & Awards
- Member, UT Southwestern Academy of Teachers (SWAT)
(2018) - University of Texas, Regent's Outstanding Teaching Award
(2017) - Pre-Clinical Teaching Award, MSI Class
(2016) - Outstanding Educator Award, Health Care Sciences, UT Southwestern School of Health Professions
(2014) - Katherine Howe Muntz Award for Teaching in Anatomy, MSI Class
(2010) - Pre-Clinical Teaching Award, MSI Class
(2009-2014) - Pre-Clinical Teaching Award, MSI Class
(2007)
Professional Associations/Affiliations
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (2016)
- American Association of Anatomists (2016)
- American Society of Mammalogists
- Research Professor II, Roy M. Huffington Dept. of Earth Sciences, Southern Methodist University
- Society of Vertebrate Paleontology