Dr Polly Hashmi

Teaching Fellow

  • Edinburgh Medical School
  • College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
  • University of Edinburgh

Contact details

Address

Street

Room E2.08
Queen's Medical Research Institute
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
The University of Edinburgh

City
47 Little France Crescent Edinburgh
Post code
EH16 4JT

Availability

  • 9am-4pm

Biography

Background

I have extensive teaching, research, and publishing experience. Before joining the HCP-Med programme in May 2019, I was an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, USA for 10 years, teaching undergraduates in both face to face and online formats  

As an accomplished educator, my course evaluations reflect my success and love for teaching. I continue to pursue teaching excellence and I have incorporated many innovative teaching techniques into my pedagogy, all of which are designed to increase student engagement.

I have over ten years of online teaching experience. I have used Desire2Learn (D2L)-similar to Blackboard, Moodle, an integrated learning platform designed to create a single place online for students and instructors to interact. Using a combination of several programs to deliver online content such as Microsoft PowerPoint, Camtasia and most recently, VoiceThread, I have provided students with interactive and narrated lectures/labs. Voice Thread replaces text-only discussions with interactive lectures, thus allowing students to communicate in real time with professors. I offer all my online teaching materials in multiple modes (video, text, narration) using Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles to accommodate for varied learning styles.

In addition to SOTL research at UW-Stout, my research program focused on the aetiology of hypertension and other cardiovascular related issues using rodent models. My undergraduate students investigated original research questions in the field of cardiovascular physiology and have been trained in sophisticated techniques. Since 2008, I personally mentored 20 undergraduate students in my research lab, and presented our research on campus, locally, nationally and internationally.

Awards:

•           Outstanding Woman of Colour in Education Award 2013

•           University of Wisconsin Teaching Fellow 2012

•           UW-Stout Library Research Fellow 2012

CV

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Qualifications

2002-2006                   PhD Physiology, University of Georgia, Athens,   GA, USA

1993-1996                   MSc Pharmacology, University of Bradford, UK

1990-1993                   BSc Hons Physiology, University of Liverpool, UK

Responsibilities & affiliations

Developing and teaching curricula for online delivery. I am also responsible for student assessment and academic mentorship.

Past project grants

• Carlson, KM & Hashmi, MP (2014) Implementing and Assessing the Impact of iPads in the STEM Laboratory. OPID Teaching and Learning Grant. $8440
• Hashmi, MP. (2014) Local Food Security Through College-Based Service Learning. UW-Stout STEM College Small Grant, US-Stout. $3000.
• Hashmi, M.P. (2013). Cellular S-nitrosothiol Signaling in Respiratory Biology. NIH NHLBI Sub-award. $24,000
• Carlson, KM & Hashmi, MP. (2012). Professional Development grant. Professional Development: Establishing a Sustainability Science Funding Network. $1000
• Wisconsin Teaching Fellow Award. 2012. $5700
• Shapaker, T. & Hashmi, MP. (2012). Comparing Nitric Oxide Synthase Distribution between Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats and Wistar Kyoto Rats. $1863
• Carlson, KM, Hashmi, MP, Vande Linde, AQ, Kirk, J & Little, AM. (2012). Learning on a Mission (LOAM). NSF TUES Proposal $590,362 (Not Funded)
• Hashmi, MP. 2011. Infusing diversity across the UW-Stout curriculum institute. $1800
• Hashmi, MP. 2011. Learning Community Summer Planning Workshop; Setting the PACE for Success, $300
• Nelson, M., Smith, K., & Hashmi, MP, 2011. Investigation of Aspergillus Migration into Blood Vessels. $1863
• Pickart, M, Hashmi, MP and Burritt, J, 2010. Health Sciences Education Collaborative Project: Marshfield Clinic, UW-River Falls, and UW-Stout. UW-Stout Curriculum Incubation Center Grant. $8960
• Burritt, J, Pickart, M and Hashmi, MP, 2010. Animal and Tissue Procurement for Instruction. UW-Stout Curriculum Incubation Center Grant. $8698
• Demuth, B., & Hashmi, MP. 2010. Down-Regulation of A2A Receptor via Continuous Antagonism as a Possible Treatment for Parkinson’s Disease. $936
• Hashmi, MP and White, T, 2010. Service Learning STEMS into Community Action. Corporation for National and Community Service through the Learn and Serve America Program. Grant distributed by Midwest Campus Compact. $25,000
• Hashmi, MP, Little, AM, and Grant, JE. 2010. NTLC Lesson Study Community of Practice: Plants, Drugs, and Depression. $2000.
• Grant, JE, Parsons, A, Hashmi, MP. “Biocircle” NSF TUES Proposal $186,640. (Not funded)
• Boone, J. & Hashmi, MP 2009. Student Grant Assessment of Endothelial Cell Response to Medicinal Plant Compounds, UW Stout. Grant awarded March $1975
• Fagan, M. & Hashmi, MP Student Grant 2009 Quantification of Proteins Involved in the Etiology of Hypertension Using Western Blotting Techniques. UW Stout. $1945
• Hashmi, MP. 2008 Faculty Research Initiative Grant. Development of Hypertension and Screening of Medicinal Plant Extracts Using Endothelial Cell Culture, UW Stout. $8000

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