Target Audience

Health professionals.

Objectives

1. Describe the basic process of tissue plastination.
2. Identify the necessary protocols required for specimen preparation.
3. Contrast the pedagogical advantages and drawbacks in using plastinates for educational purposes.

Speaker

Marc Pizzimenti, PhD
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa 

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