Prof. PK Rangachari

P.K. Rangachari, (M.B.B.S;Ph.D) is a  Professor (Emeritus) Medicine at McMaster University, Canada. He has taught students from diverse programmes (undergraduate science, liberal arts, nursing, medicine, physiotherapy and pharmacy). His courses have linked toxicology with creative writing, signal transduction of taste receptors with anthropology, and his students have explored the antecedents of medical technology.  He is the Vice-Chair of IUPHAR-Education Section and is on the editorial board of Advances in Physiology Education, and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education (BAMBED). He has received the 3M National Teaching Fellowship, the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) award, the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching from McMaster University, as well as McMaster Students Union Teaching awards. He was the Claude Bernard Lecturer of the American Physiological Society for 2011. He has published over 110 refereed papers on both experimental sciences as well as education. He has co-authored three books, The Design of Smooth Muscle, Problem-Based Learning in Medicine and, more recently, Student Matters: the Rewards of University Teaching, a collection of essays that he co-edited with K.J. Dorsey as a tribute to the late Howard Barrows.