Stephen D. Roper, Ph.D.

Roles

• Biography

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  Harvard College, Cambridge, MA, B.S. 05/1967 Biology
  
  University College, London, UK, Ph.D. 06/1970 Physiology
  
  Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Postdoctoral 06/1973 Neurobiology w/ SW Kuffler
  
  Harvard Medical School Instructor 1971-73 Department of Neurobiology
  
  Univ Colorado Med School Assist Prof 1973-79 Department of Anatomy, Department of Physiology
  
  Univ Colorado Med School Assoc Prof 1979-85 Department of Anatomy, Department of Physiology
  
  Univ Colorado Med School Professor 1985 Department of Anatomy, Department of Physiology
  
  Colorado State University Prof & Chair 1985-90 Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology
  
  Colorado State University Professor 1990-95 Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology
  
  Miller Sch Med, U Miami Professor 1995- Dept of Physiology & Biophysics, Dept Otolaryngology

• Education & Training

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  Education

  1973: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

  Other, Neurobiology

  1970: University of London, London, United Kingdom

  PhD, Physiology

  1967: Harvard College

  BS, Biology

  Post Graduate Training

  1973: Harvard Medical School, Neurobiology w/ SW Kuffler

  Post-Doctoral Fellowship

• Honors & Awards

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• Teaching Interests

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  I actively participate in basic science introductory medical education and advanced medical topics such as nociception. Because our medical curriculum is now focused on small group teaching, I prefer a more interactive approach in my teaching, with active discussions and intensive question/answer sessions.

• Research Interests

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  Ongoing projects include mapping and decoding taste-evoked signals from the sensory end organs (tastebuds) into the hindbrain. We also conduct tests of orofacial pain and taste dysfunction that result from off target side effects of cancer chemotherapy such as oxaliplatin- and cisplatin-induced oral cold allodynia and dysgeusia. The premise is that taste changes and orofacial pain after oxaliplatin or cisplatin chemotherapy may be due, in part, to pathological changes in the sensory ganglia that innervate the tongue, head, and neck--the geniculate and trigeminal ganglia. Because these ganglia lie outside the blood-brain barrier, pathological changes there may be treatable by drugs and agents injected into the blood stream, raising hopes for developing effective means to alleviate the painful side effects of chemotherapy.

• Publications

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