Alicia Mae Prater - Profile

2005 NYMC employee holiday reception, NYMC

Alicia has a PhD in Experimental Pathology from New York Medical College. Her dissertation work involved the genetics of hypertension and was awarded second place for oral presentations at the NYMC Graduate Student Research Forum in 2006. Her preliminary work was awarded first place for oral presentations at the Pathology Department Student Research Forum in 2004.

While in New York, Dr. Prater taught graduate school courses on the morphological and functional basis of pathobiology (basic anatomy and physiology), introductory pathology, infectious diseases, and HIV/AIDS. She has a strong interest in medical ethics, health care, and science history. Her B.S. was in Biochemistry with a Business minor from Indiana University.

Dr. Prater has written for other online venues including Triond's Quazen and HealthMad, as well as Helium where she is the Medical Sciences subchannel steward and the Denver-based MileHive. She is also the sole contributor and webmaster of Maeflowers, a health liaison website with a corresponding blog.

Dr. Prater is currently involved in freelance research support by assisting researchers in the compilation of grants and manuscripts, particularly background and introductory material from their references, as well as students with literature review and dissertation editing. Her main work is editing scientific manuscripts for English usage and journal style standards prior to submission for publication or post-reviewer commentary.

Dr. Prater's article on pharmaceutical information websites was given the Suite101 Editors Choice Award in November 2007. In 2004 an abstract of her preliminary dissertation work was accepted into the 54th annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics as well as the Second Annual International Conference on Women, Heart Disease, and Stroke. In 2006, Dr. Prater was the coauthor on a paper in the American Journal of Hypertension. Several academic papers on which she is first author have been held up in submission and awaiting collaborator input.