Medical Assistant

Michael Jay Katz

Associate Professor

Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine

Case Western Reserve University (CWRU)

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Cleveland, OH 44106-4930 216-***-**** ****@****.***

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BA 1972 Harvard chemistry (cum laude, Detur prize)

PhD 1978 CWRU neuroembryology (Steuer prize)

MD 1979 CWRU

1975 Grass Foundation Fellow, MBL Woods Hole

1980-1982 NIH Research Fellow, Brown Univ.

1982-1984 Mellon Foundation Fellow, CWRU

1982-1988 Sloan Foundation Research Fellow, CWRU

1981-1988 Assistant Professor, Anatomy, CWRU

1988-2005 Associate Professor (tenured), Bioarchtectonics, CWRU

2005-present Associate Professor (tenured), Anatomy, CWRU

2003-2005 peer-reviewed column "Medical Problems: Brief Reviews" J

Pharm Technol

2006-present Contributing Editor (Anatomy & Physiology) -- Taber's

Cyclopedic Medical

Dictionary

Teaching:

Medical anatomy

Physical diagnosis

Scientific writing

Nursing CEU Courses: [Online at nursingceu.com]

Katz. 2007 Metabolic Syndrome.

Katz. 2007 Wound Care.

Katz. 2007 Type 2 Diabetes.

Katz. 2007 Coronary Artery Disease.

Katz. 2008 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

Katz. 2008 Acute Stroke.

Katz. 2008 Postanesthesia Care.

Katz. 2008 Asthma.

Katz. 2009 Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs). Reproductive Infections.

Katz. 2009 Prostate Cancer.

Katz. 2009 Type 2 Diabetes.

Katz. 2009 Coronary Artery Disease.

Katz. 2010 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - updated.

Katz. 2010 Acute Stroke - updated. in press

Peer-Reviewed Column: [Medical Problems: Brief Reviews. J Pharm Technol

(2003-2005)]

Katz. 2003 Anthrax. J Pharm Technol 19: 75-76

Katz. 2003 Abdominal aortic aneurysm. J Pharm Technol 19: 136

Katz. 2003 Graves disease. J Pharm Technol 19: 199-200

Katz. 2003 Infectious mononucleosis. J Pharm Technol 19: 260

Katz. 2003 Guillain-Barre syndrome. J Pharm Technol 19: 339-340

Katz. 2003 Cor pulmonale. J Pharm Technol 19: 403-404

Katz. 2004 Systemic lupus erythematosus 20: 66-68

Katz. 2004 Smallpox 20: 147-148

Katz. 2004 Alzheimer's disease 20: 211-212

Katz. 2004 Polycystic ovary syndrome 20: 263-264

Katz. 2004 Glaucoma 20: 318-320

Katz. 2004 Diverticular disease of the intestines 20: 370-372

Katz. 2005 Pancreatitis. J Pharm Technol 21: 54-56

Katz. 2005 Pain. J Pharm Technol 21: 117-120

Katz. 2005 Acute renal failure. J Pharm Technol 21: 185-188

Katz. 2005 Atrial fibrillation. J Pharm Technol 21: 242-244

Katz. 2005 Hypercholesterolemia. J Pharm Technol 21: 313-316

Scientific Papers:

Gould, Katz. 1975 Disruption of ideal geometry in the growth of

receptaculitids: a natural experiment in theoretical morphology. Paleobiol

1: 1-20.

Katz, Lasek. 1978 Eyes transplanted to tadpole tails send axons rostrally

in two spinal cord tracts. Science 199: 202-204.

Katz, Lasek. 1978 Evolution of the nervous system: role of ontogenetic

mechanisms in the evolution of matching populations. Proc Natl Acad Sci

(USA) 75: 1349-1352.

Katz, Lasek. 1979 Substrate pathways which guide growing axons in Xenopus

embryos. J Comp Neurol 183: 817-832.

Katz. 1980 Allometry formula: a cellular model. Growth 44: 89-96.

Lasek, Katz. 1979 The axon and its origins. IN Aguayo, Karpati (eds)

Current Topics in Nerve and Muscle Research. Excerpta Medica, pp 232-240.

Katz, Lasek. 1980 Guidance cue patterns and cell migration in multicellular

organisms. Cell Motil 1: 141-157.

Katz, Lasek, Nauta. 1980 Ontogeny of substrate pathways and the origin of

neural circuit pattern. Neurosci 5: 821-833.

Katz, Goffman. 1981 Preformation of ontogenetic patterns. Philos Sci 48:

438-453.

Katz, Lasek. 1981 Substrate pathways demonstrated by transplanted Mauthner

axons. J Comp Neurol 195: 627-641.

Katz, Lasek, Kaiserman-Abramof. 1981 Ontophyletics of the nervous system:

eyeless mutants illustrate how ontogenetic buffer mechanisms channel

evolution. Proc Natl Acad Sci (USA) 78: 397-401.

Katz, Silver. 1981 Inverted Xenopus eye primordia develop into anatomically

inverted eyes. Dev Biol 86: 510-514.

Katz. 1982 Ontogenetic mechanisms: the middle ground of evolution. IN

Bonner (ed) Evolution and Development. Springer-Verlag, pp. 207-212.

Katz, Grenander. 1982 Developmental matching and the numerical matching

hypothesis for neuronal cell death. J Theoret Biol 98: 501-517.

Katz, Lasek, Osdoby, Whittaker, Caplan. 1982 Bolton-Hunter reagent as a

vital stain for developing systems. Dev Biol 90: 419-429.

Katz. 1983 Ontophyletics: studying evolution beyond the genome. Perspect

Biol Med 26: 323-333.

Katz. 1983 Comparative anatomy of the tunicate tadpole, Ciona intestinalis.

Biol Bulletin 164: 1-27.

Katz, Lasek, Silver. 1983 Ontophyletics of the nervous system: the

development of the corpus callosum and the evolution of axon tracts. Proc

Natl Acad Sci (USA) 80: 5936-5940.

Katz. 1984 Stereotyped and variable growth of redirected Mauthner axons.

Dev Biol 104: 199-209.

Katz. 1984 CNS effects of mechanically produced spina bifida. Dev Med Child

Neurol 26: 617-631.

Katz. 1984 Cause and effect in evolution. (commentary) Behav Brain Sci 7:

492.

Katz, George, Gilbert. 1984 Axonal elongation as a stochastic walk. Cell

Motil 4: 351-370.

Katz. 1985 How straight do axons grow? J Neurosci 5: 589-595.

Katz. 1985 Axonal branch shapes. Brain Res 361: 70-76.

Katz, Chow. 1985 Templeting and self-assembly. J Theoret Biol 113: 1-13.

Katz, George. 1985 Fractals and the analysis of growth paths. Bull Math

Biol 47: 273-286.

Katz, Lasek. 1985 How are the elemental axon patterns produced in the

spinal cord? IN Tsukada (ed) Perspectives of Neuroscience. From Molecule to

Mind. Univ Tokyo Press, pp. 43-60.

Katz, Lasek. 1985 Early axon patterns of the spinal cord: experiments with

a computer. Dev Biol 109: 140-149.

Katz, Watson. 1985 Intensifier for Bodian stain of tissue sections and cell

cultures. Stain Technol 60: 81-87.

Lasek, Phillips, Katz, Autilio-Gambetti. 1985 Evolution and function of

neurofilament proteins. Ann NY Acad Sci 455: 462-478.

Katz. 1986 Quantitative effects of NGF on the growth of embryonic frog

axons. Brain Res 366: 211-216.

Katz. 1987 Is evolution random? IN Raff, Raff (eds) Development as an

Evolutionary Process. MBL Lect Biol, Vol 8. AR Liss, pp. 285-315.

Lasek, Katz. 1987 Mechanisms at the axon tip regulate metabolic processes

critical to axonal elongation. Prog Brain Res 71: 49-60.

Miller, Lasek, Katz. 1987 Preferred microtubules for vesicle transport in

lobster axons. Science 235: 220-222.

Katz, Soltero-Niffenegger. 1988 The quantification of biological patterns

and intrinsic cell guidance. IN Lasek, Black (eds) Intrinsic Determinants

of Neuronal Form and Function. AR Liss, pp. 147-165.

Price, Paggi, Lasek, Katz. 1988 Neurofilament polymers are spaced randomly

in the radial dimension of axons. J Neurocytol 17: 55-62.

George, Schneider, Lasek, Katz. 1988 Axonal shortening and the mechanisms

of axonal motility. Cell Motil Cytoskel 9: 48-59.

Katz. 1988 Fractals and the analysis of waveforms. Computers Biol Med 18:

145-156.

Paggi, Lasek, Katz. 1989 Slow component B protein kinetics in optic nerve

and tract windows. Brain Res 504: 223-230.

Monaco, Autilio-Gambetti, Lasek, Katz, Gambetti. 1989 Experimental increase

of neurofilament transport rate: decreases in neurofilament number and in

axon diameter. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 48: 23-32.

Price, Lasek, Katz. 1990 Internal axonal cytoarchitecture is shaped locally

by external compressive forces. Brain Res 530: 205-214.

Paggi, Lasek, Katz. 1990 Cytomatrix protein residence times differ

significantly between the tract the terminal segments of optic axons. Brain

Res 517: 143-150.

Price, Lasek, Katz. 1991 Microtubules have special physical associations

with smooth endoplasmic reticula and mitochondria in axons. Brain Res 540:

209-216.

Lasek, Paggi, Katz. 1992 Slow axonal transport mechanisms move

neurofilaments relentlessly in mouse optic axons. J Cell Biol 117: 607-615.

Price, Lasek, Katz. 1993 Neurofilaments assume a less random architecture

at nodes and in other regions of axonal compression. Brain Res 607: 125-

133.

Lasek, Paggi, Katz. 1993 The maximum rate of neurofilament transport in

axons: a view of molecular translocation machinery continuously engaged.

Brain Res 616: 58-64.

Katz. 2006 Save time: do a 5-minute initial assessment. RN 69: 43-46.

Katz. 2006 Meningococcal disease, an uncommon but potentially fatal

illness. RN 69 [Online]

rnweb.com/rnweb/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=388553

Scientific Essays:

Katz. 1965 Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. (book review)

Explorer (Cleve Nat Hist Mus) 7: 29.

Katz. 1985 An exploration of the limits of biological enterprise. Harvard

Mag 88: 25-32.

Katz. 1987 Are there biological impossibilities? IN Davis, Park (eds) No

Way. The Nature of the Impossible. WH Freeman, pp. 10-27.

Katz. 1987 'Tis the gift to be simple. Kenyon Rev 9: 20-31.

Katz. 1988 On the wings of an angel. IN Eastman (ed) Norton Reader, 7th ed.

Norton, pp. 530-545. also: IN Braun (ed) Biology. 5th ed. Dushkin Publ,

Guilford CT, pp. 25-31.

Katz. 1993 Anecdotal understandings. Four Quarters 7: 53-58.

Katz. 1993 To stand and stare. South Dakota Rev 31: 7-17.

Katz. 1993 Scientific observers with a human taint. World Futures 39: 243-

247.

Katz. 1994 Father Nature. Cimarron Rev 107: 109-121.

Katz. 1994 The claws that catch. J Mississippi Acad Sci 38: 11-13.

Katz. 1995 I met a man who wasn't there. Virginia Quarterly Rev 71: 257-

269.

Katz. 2001 A bountiful hairy spleen. The Morpo Review [Online]

morpo.com/viewer.php?vol=8&iss=1&disp=9

Katz. 2009 The reappearing thumb, a medical footnote. Caketrain 7: 231-245.

Books:

Katz. 1985 Elements of the Scientific Paper. Yale Univ.

(Japanese translation: 1989, Asakura Publ Co, Ltd)

Katz. 1986 Templets and the Explanation of Complex Patterns. Cambridge

Univ.

Katz. 1987 Five Modern Socratic Dialogues. Meriwether Publ. (36 pp)

Katz. 1987 Socrates in October: Dialogues on Incondensable Complexity.

Peter Lang.

Katz. 1988 Night Tales of the Shammas. Jason Aronson Publ.

Katz. 1988 Pattern Biology and the Complex Architectures of Life. Longwood

Academic

Katz. 1988 Socrates in September: The Entanglements of Complexity. Peter

Lang.

Katz. 1989 Socrates in August: From Incondensable Complexity to Myth. Peter

Lang.

Katz. 1990 Night Tales Remembered: Fables from the Shammas. Jason Aronson

Publ.

Katz. 1990 Ten Potatoes in a Pot. Harper & Row Junior Books.

Katz. 1992 The Herbalist. Univ Press of Amer.

Katz. 1993 Night Tales From Long Ago. Jason Aronson Publ.

Katz. 1994 The Book of Tombstone Epitaphs. Nakai.

Katz. 1994 Buckeye Legends: Folk Tales and Lore from Ohio. Univ Mich.

Katz. 2006 From Research to Manuscript: A Guide to Scientific Writing, 1st

ed. Springer.

Katz. 2009 From Research to Manuscript: A Guide to Scientific Writing, 2nd

ed. Springer.

Edited Books:

Rawski. 2007 Petrarch's Latin: An Annotated Glossary. Latin to English.

(ed. Katz)

Mediaevalia. Global Academic Press.

Stories and Poems:

Katz. 1988 Pherecydes' fable. Syracuse Scholar 9: 79-84.

Katz. 2000 The lost dialogues - Sarpedon. Eclectica [Online]

eclectica.org/v4n1/katz.html

Katz. 2001 The lost dialogues - Pherecydes. Eclectica [Online]

eclectica.org/v5n1/katz.html

Katz. 2005 Crabstick aitchbone axe. Sword's Edge [Online]

swordsedge.net/Issue20/FictionCrabstickAitchboneAxe.html

Katz. 2005 The lost dialogues - Socrates and the wrestling exam. SubtleTea

[Online]

subtletea.com/michaelkatzprose.htm

Katz. 2006 The midnight carney (poem). Planet Magazine [Online]

planetmag.com/2006/08/12/the-midnight-carnie-by-michael-

jay-katz/

[reprinted in: Universe Pathways Magazine, Jan. 2007, issue 4, p. 275]

Katz. 2008 A warm word in fall (poem). The Wild Goose Poetry Review -

Fall/Winter 2008

[Online] wildgoosepoetryreview.com/Current_Issue.html

Katz. 2009 The lost dialogues -- Socrates to himself. Philosophy Today

73:52-52

and Vocabula [Online]

vocabula.com/2009/VRAPRIL09katzfiction.asp

Cartoons:

Katz. 1979 cartoon. Ohio Motorist 71:14.

Katz. 1984 cartoons. Mendocino Rev 8: 133, 158.

Katz. 1989 cartoon. Science 246: 456.

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