Jane Phillips-Conroy, Ph.D.

Dr. Jane Phillips-Conroy is a Professor in the Departments of Anatomy and Neurobiology and Anthropology. She has been teaching Human Anatomy to first year medical students since 1983 at Washington University, and before then at Harvard, Brown and New York University. She received her B.A. degree from Brandeis University and her Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology at New York University. Her research centers on studies of baboons, and she has engaged extensively in field work on baboons in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and currently in Zambia.

Dr. Phillips-Conroy is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the St. Louis Academy of Sciences, and was elected to AOA in 2009. She is the recipient of the Goldstein   Leadership Award in Medical Student Education, the Founders' Day Award, the Second Century Award, and many teaching awards, including awards made by the graduating medical class.

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