Associate Professor
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Dongmei Cui M.D (hon), Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. She led the development of 3D Virtual Anatomy Research Laboratory and mentors students conducting 3D educational research at the UMMC. Her educational research philosophy is to develop innovative 3D teaching tools to facilitate the acquisition of anatomical knowledge. She was the lead author of the textbook titled "Atlas of Histology with Functional and Clinical Correlations." This textbook was ranked as one of the few leading histology textbooks by Doody’s Core Titles library referral service in 2012 and 2016. The textbook has been translated into five languages (Spanish, Italian, Indonesian, complex Chinese and Turkish editions) and is currently used for teaching histology worldwide. She is also the lead author of the recent textbook "Histology from a Clinical Perspective". Those works were published by Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. She has participated in national and international meetings as a presenter and guest speaker. She also helped to organize symposium for the international meetings and was chair/co-chair and speaker at the 18th and 19th Congress of the International Federation of Associations of Anatomists (IFAA), and 25th International Symposia on Morphological Sciences (ISMS). Dr. Cui is a member of the American Association of Anatomists and served on the editorial board of Journal of Anatomical Sciences Education (2018-2022). She is a leader for International Federation of Associations of Anatomists Task Force to develop Core Syllabus for the Histology in Medical Curriculum. She teaches Histology and Cell Biology to medical students and graduate students. She taught Microscopic Anatomy to dental students for many years. She has developed an integrated curriculum and currently a course director for Dental Histology and a course director for Medical Review of Histology/with Clinical Correlation course at University of Mississippi Medical Center.
