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Biography:
Dr. Shanklin received his medical degree from State University of New York,
Syracuse, after a double major in chemistry and philosophy at Syracuse
University. During medical school he was a research associate at Marine
Biological Laboratory, studying functional integration in teleost embryos. He
interned in pathology and obstetrics at Duke University Hospital before serving
in the U.S. Navy as an obstetrician-gynecologist. Following military duty he
resumed residency training in pathology and joined the faculty of the University
of Florida. A recognized international authority in developmental pathology and
neuropathology, he is a founder of the Society for Pediatric Pathology. He was
awarded fellowship status with the Royal Society of Medicine, London, in 1992,
in both pathology and obstetrics. He was pathologist-in-chief at Chicago
Lying-In Hospital for eleven years and later joined the faculty of the
University of Tennessee in 1983. For the past 18 years he had broadened his
fields of inquiry into basic processes of immunopathology and developmental
nutrition.
Dr. Shanklin is an active member
of the editorial board of Experimental and Molecular Pathology in immunological
and development pathology and was an active member in the Memphis Section of the
American Chemical Society for 14 years. He remains active at the Marine Biological
Laboratory in Woods Hole and has resumed residence there much of the year. He is also a life member of the Mathematical
Association of America and the New York Academy of Science. In May 2002,
Dr. Shanklin was awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award by the College of
Graduate Medical Sciences of the University of Tennessee.
Research/Teaching Interests:
Current active research covers three fields. The first is topographic
analysis of perinatal brain hemorrhages and vascular malformations, using a
database now in excess of 1,000 cases. The objective is to describe
developmental time vectors for lesion preconditions. The second is the
completion of a 30 year effort on pulmonary oxygen toxicity which identified a
nitrogen:oxygen receptor mechanism in the lung. The third is investigation of
how alien materials affect wound healing and the consequences of this for long
term cellular immune memory, in collaboration with Professor David L. Smalley
formerly of
the department. This work on cellular immunity was extended to
the immunological effects of selected botanicals under a major grant from the
Innovations Council of the Baptist Healthcare Foundation.
Selected Publications:
Shanklin, D.R.: Maternal nutrition and child health, Second edition,
2000, Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, IL., 298 pp., ISBN #9-398-07074-1.
Shanklin, D.R., M.V. Stevens, M.F. Hall, and
D.L. Smalley: Environmental
immunogens and T cell mediated responses in fibromyalgia: Evidence for immune
dysregulation and determinants of granuloma formation. Exper. Molec. Pathol.
69:102-118, 2000.
Shanklin, D.R. and Smalley, D.L.: Pathogenetic and diagnostic aspects of siliconosis. Rev. Environ. Health
17:85-105, 2002 (An invited paper).
Shanklin, D.R.: Cellular magnesium
acquisition: an anomaly in embryonic cation homeostasis. Exper. Molec. Pathol.
83:224-240, 2007.
Shanklin, D.R., Mullins, A.C., Baldwin, H.S.:
Cerebropulmonary dysgenetic syndrome. Exper. Molec. Pathol. 85:112-116, 2008.
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