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Patrick M. Boyd, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry
Department of Medical Education
North Campus

LOCATION(S)
Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine
Medical Sciences Building
525 Pine St.
Office 2030
Scranton, PA 18509
570-955-1312
Fax: 570-504-9618
pboyd@som.geisinger.edu

Professor of Biochemistry

Biography

Patrick M. Boyd, PhD, holds a PhD in biochemistry from Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY. Dr. Boyd has held assistant and associate professorships as well as a directorship in the medical technology department at Utica College of Syracuse University. More recently he held an associate professorship of chemistry at Utica College of Syracuse University and has served as dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Utica College of Syracuse University. His research interests have been in protein and enzyme chemistry, the specificity of proteases, proteomics and clinical chemistry.

Recent publications

  • Doane KJ, Boyd, P. Authoring of Patient Education Materials by Medical Students: An Activity Designed to Demonstrate Communication to the Lay Public.  Med Sci Educ.  2016; 26 (1): 47-52
  • Donae KJ, Boyd, P. A Symposium-Based Self-Directed Learning Approach to Teaching Medical Cell Biology to Medical Students. Med Sci Educ.  2016; 26 (2):  229 – 237
  • Ming Li, William N. Wan, Olga Petrova, Feilei Huang, Zhenzhen Zhou, Patrick Boyd, Karl A. Wilson, Anna Tan-Wilson (2009) Applicability of multigene family-specific antibodies toward studies of the subtilases in Arabidopsis thaliana. Analytical Biochemistry, Volume 384, Issue 1, 1 January 2009, Pages 114-122. Full text
  • Boyd, P. M., N. Barnaby, A. Tan – Wilson, and K. A. Wilson (2002) Cleavage specificity of the subtilisin-like protease C1 from soybean. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1596: 269-282. Full text

Education

PhD – Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY