Campbell, Boyd Division Director. B.S., M.S., M.D., Ph.D., University of Illinois. Dr. Campbell received B.S., M.S. (bacteriology), M.D., and Ph.D. (anatomy) degrees from the University of Illinois. He completed a surgical internship at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Lukes Medical Center in Chicago, and has done residency training in neurology, neurosurgery, and neuroradiology.

He has been a member of the faculty of Indiana University, the University of Maryland, the University of Puerto Rico, the California Institute of Technology, Georgetown University, and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.He is a retired Colonel in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, where he served as a Research Neurologist at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. He teaches Gross Human Anatomy, Neuroanatomy, and Human Histology at Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine.

Farnsworth, Paul Professor. Dr. Farnsworth is a graduate from Middlesex Hospital Medical School, University of London where he earned his Ph.D. in Developmental Biology. Dr. Farnsworth also received his B.Sc. (Microbiology) from Queen Elizabeth College, University of London. He has extensive teaching experience at the University of Texas at San Antonio and believes that classes should involve analogies and examples that are relevant to students’ current lives and their future careers as healers. Dr. Farnsworth currently teaches Microbiology and Cell Function/Organ System I at SCNM.

Laherty, Richard Associate Professor/Chair of Basic Science. B.S., M.S., University of San Francisco; Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Laherty received his B.S. and M.S. degrees (biology) from the University of San Francisco. His Ph.D. in human anatomy was awarded by the University of California, Berkeley. His research interest in reproductive endocrinology led him to the Reproductive Endocrinology Center, in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine.

He served on the faculties of the School of Dentistry and the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, teaching histology, gross anatomy, and neuroanatomy. He next served on the faculty of Indiana University School of Medicine, where he taught histology and did research in reproductive endocrinology and on the endocrine regulation of the immune system. From there Dr. Laherty moved to Kentucky, where he was on the faculty of the University of Kentucky, before settling in Arizona. Dr. Laherty teaches Gross Human Anatomy, Neuroanatomy, and Endocrinology.

Lasku, Arben Associate Professor. As a graduate from University of Tirana, Albania. Dr. Lasku received his M.S. (clinical chemistry), M.D., Ph.D. (tumor markers) from the University of Tirana, Albania. He completed a specialization in nuclear medicine at the University of Genoa Medical Center, Italy. He has trained in clinical chemistry, clinical pathology, and nuclear medicine and has been a member of the faculty of the University of Tirana, Albania. Dr. Lasku currently teaches human pathology, laboratory diagnosis, and immunology at SCNM.

Richards, Thomas Professor, B.S., University of Idaho; M.S., University of Idaho; Ph.D., University of Michigan; D.C., Western States Chiropractic College; Diplomate, American Board of Chiropractic Internists. Dr. Richards teaches gross and neuro anatomy. Dr. Richards received the Ph.D. in anatomy from the University of Michigan in 1971 and did post doctoral training at the National Institute of Health and Damon Runyon Memorial Fund for Cancer Research. Following a teaching and research career at Oregon Health Sciences University, Dr. Richards obtained the D.C. degree and practiced in Beaverton, Oregon. He is an outstanding teacher having received distinguished teaching awards in 1985, 1986 and 1988 at Oregon Health Sciences University.

Wollner, Debra Associate Professor. B.A., University of California at San Diego; Ph.D., University of Washington. An Associate Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology, Dr. Wollner teaches physiology, endocrinology, pharmacology and research, and serves as Chair of the Southwest College Institutional Review Board (IRB). She received her doctorate in Pharmacology from the University of Washington in 1987. She performed postdoctoral research in the Department of Cell Biology at New York University School of Medicine, the Institute for Cancer Research at the Fox Chase Cancer Center, and the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at Stanford University Medical Center. She has published her research on the development of epithelial polarity, cellular adhesion, and the diversity of the voltage sensitive sodium channel, work that was funded by the NSF, the NIH and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. She currently serves as Chair of the Southwest College Institutional Review Board (IRB).

Waters, Robert Professor/Chair of Research. B.A, Carroll College; Ph.D., Montana State University. Robert F. Waters, PhD earned his doctorate in genetics with graduate minors in biochemistry and statistics from Montana State University in 1974. Postdoctoral training and a faculty appointment were added at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. Research duties at KSU included radioactive tracing of DNA involving intergeneric hybridization. During his tenure at Kansas State, Dr. Waters had the privilege of working with the Nobel Prize Laureate, Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, in genetics with CIMMYT near Mexico City (Toluca) and Ciudad Obregon in Sonora, Mexico.

Following Kansas State University, Dr. Waters received extensive training in computer science, communications and programming from IBM, DEC and many other companies. In computer science he consulted with CAPLAMAR in Mexico City and British Petroleum in London. With his varied background he designed, developed and implemented an extensive emergency medial software system, and was a co-principle investigator for a multi-million dollar federal DOT/NHTSA grant to rewrite the EMT basic curriculum.

Following twenty years in private industry, Dr. Waters joined the faculty at the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine and Health Sciences (SCNM) in 1993 as an Associate Professor of medical biochemistry and medical genetics. He is also Chairman of the Research Department. Dr. Waters teaches Biochemistry, Research Methods and Medical Genetics.