Thesis and Dissertation Advisors -
Anatomy and Physiology
DR. S. C. BENEDICT, DSN, FAAN
Dr. Benedict has been a professor of nursing for over 25 years. She was a Fulbright Scholar to the University of Iceland and a Visiting Professor at the University of Botswana. She has taught research methods courses at the master’s degree and PhD level at Columbia University [New York], the University of Alabama [Huntsville], the University of Iceland, the Medical University of South Carolina, and the University of Botswana [Africa] and has served as chairperson or member of over 30 thesis and dissertation committees at universities in the US, Scotland, and the Republic of South Africa.
Dr. Benedict’s research has been funded by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Nursing Research of the US National Institutes of Health, the Greenwall Foundation, and the University of Botswana. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Medical Ethics and the Holocaust at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC and has done numerous scholarly presentations in the US, Europe, Africa, and Israel.
Dr. Benedict’s experience has involved extensive guidance of graduate students and includes written critiques of more than 400 research proposals. She has worked with numerous students to delineate research problems, select appropriate research designs and sampling plans, and organize the findings into implications and conclusions. Although the majority of her work has been with graduate students in nursing, she has also worked with doctoral students in health policy, public health, history, and education.
In addition to degree completion, Dr. Benedict’s former students in the US, Europe, and Africa have published in peer-reviewed journals and have made presentations at national and international conferences. Dr. Benedict has guided many of these efforts.
Selected articles:
An ethics of testimony: Prisoner nurses at Auschwitz
Duty and "euthanasia": The nurses of Meseritz--Obrawalde
Maria Stromberger: A nurse in the resistance in Auschwitz
Nurses and the sterilization experiments of Auschwitz: A postmodernist perspective
VALRIE ANN GERARD, M.A., Ph.D.
Content Editor/Writer: Science and Medicine
Scope: biology, botany, chemistry, ecology, environmental policy, environmental science, evolutionary biology, geography, geology, marine science, mathematical modeling, medicine, oceanography, physiology, veterinary medicine, zoology, and related scientific fields.
Academic Editing/Writing Experience:
- Science and medical editor and writer since 2001.
- Specializes in organization, interpretation, and clear presentation of complex information.
- Helps clients (including non-native English speakers) improve their writing skills for future projects.
- Past and current clients from Australia, Canada, Chile, China, Columbia, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, Patagonia, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Thailand, Uganda, the U.K., the U.S., and Venezuela.
- More than fifty publications and one million dollars worth of successful grant proposals.
- Over thirty years of teaching experience, including scientific writing courses.
- Served as advisor and/or mentor to many graduate and undergraduate students.
- Past experience as associate editor and/or reviewer for over two dozen scientific journals, including Science, and government funding agencies.
Provides fast turnaround.
Helps you submit your dissertation, thesis, proposal, or project on time.
Graduate students: Many students who fail to finish their degrees quit in the writing phase. Don’t become a “dissertation dropout”!
- Get help with the thesis/dissertation proposal stage - Val provides help with your proposal, including literature review and research plan.
- Get help with methods, data interpretation and presentation – Val specializes in helping you write clear, concise, and accurate Methods and Results sections, and in designing figures and tables.
- Get help writing the final thesis/dissertation – Val shows you how to organize your material, including your Literature Review and Discussion, and polishes your writing.
- Get help with revisions – Val helps you make changes in response to comments by your advisor and committee members.
- Get help with the defense – Val can help you prepare your presentation, and will provide you with practice sessions if desired.
- Get help with publications – Val will guide you through the manuscript preparation process and help you get your work published.
Undergraduate students: Most students do not take any writing courses beyond English 101. Term papers and theses can be major hurdles in completing your degree. Don’t trip over those hurdles!
- Get help with science projects – Val can help you design your project and interpret the data.
- Get help with term papers – Val provides assistance with term papers, helping you improve the organization and writing.
- Get help with your thesis – Val can help you organize and write an undergraduate thesis.
HANNA CRAIG
Hanna Craig, Ph.D., M.S., B.S., is a medical writer and editor with 20 years of writing and research experience in numerous scientific fields. She holds post-graduate degrees in systematics and molecular toxicology, as well as post-doctoral fellowships in neuroendocrinology and bioinformatics. She writes, edits and proofreads technical reports, scientific manuscripts, grant proposals, materials for CME accreditation and clinical study reports (CSR) for pharmaceutical industry. She has authored numerous highly technical publications and grant proposals, in many biological fields and with an emphasis on biotechnology. On these grants she has served both as co- and principle investigator. Additional experience includes computational biology, scientific advisory, database curation and annotation, web content writing, patent application writing and statistical design and analysis.
Her general areas of interest include: bioinformatics, molecular biology studies, virology, vaccinology, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, neurology, oncology, toxicology and pharmacology.
Hanna has served on graduate student committees, and has advised and assisted graduate students with dissertations and academic publications. She has also served on scientific advisory boards to assist in bioinformatics design and tool development, and has her own bioinformatics software development business. She has published book chapters, has authored and co-authored many peer-reviewed scientific articles, as well as other works on medical and scientific websites.
