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Dr Godfrina McKoy

Lecturer in Problem Based Learning
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Problem Based Learning (PBL) is a key learning method in MBBS4 year 1 and T year. My role as lecturer in PBL includes facilitating PBL tutorials as well as liaising with module leads and the curriculum development team to keep our PBL cases current. This is important not only for maximising our students’ PBL experience, but also for ensuring that our cases reflect the dynamic nature of our MBBS curriculum which is constantly responding to, changes in GMC guidance, advances in related scientific & medical fields, changes in healthcare delivery, as well as changes in educational theories and practices.  I also recently took on the role of MBBS4 year 1 Life Maintenance module lead.

I am an Advance HE Fellow having completed the accredited Postgraduate Certificate in Healthcare & Biomedical Education course here at SGUL. I am particularly keen on the adoption of educational practices that maximise student engagement such as Team–Based Learning.

Both my undergraduate and postgraduate studies were at King’s College University of London. I have a BSc in Pharmacology and a PhD in Biology. I also have over 15 years hands-on research experience in the growth and regeneration of skeletal & cardiac muscle, and to keep abreast with ongoing research in this area I supervise 'dry' SSC projects such as cardiac stem cell therapy. The lectures I deliver such as the Hypertension (MPharm year 3, Kingston), Pharmacology of the CVS: Angina (Biomedical Science year 1) DNA replication and the Cell Cycle (MBBS4 year 1) also reflect my subject expertise in these areas.

  1. McKoy G, Bicknell K, Patel K, Brooks G. Developmental expression of myostatin in cardiomyocytes and its effect on foetal and neonatal rat cardiomyocyte proliferation Cardiovascular Res. 2007, 74:304–312

  2. Fredericks S, Degens H, McKoy G, Bainbridge K, Collinson PO, Coulton G, et al. Effect of denervation on the content of cardiac troponin-T and cardiac troponin-I in rat skeletal muscle Clin Biochem. 2007, 40:423-6.

  3. MorissetteMR, Cook SA, Foo S, McKoy G, Ashida N, Novikov M, et al. Myostatin regulates cardiomyocyte growth through modulation of Akt signalling. Circ Res. 2006; 99:15–24.

  4. Mckoy G, Hou Y, Yang SY, Vega Avelaira D, Degens H, Goldspink G, Coulton GR. Expression of Ankrd2 in fast and slow muscles and its response to stretch are consistent with a role in slow muscle function.J Appl Physiol. 2005, 98:2337-43; discussion 2320.

  5. 5. Mckoy G, and Coulton G., Expression of Ankrd2 and sr553 in KY mice incapable of compensatory hypertrophy J Muscle Res Cell Motil. 2003, 24:376

  6. Mckoy G, Kemp T, Velineni R and Coulton G., Identification of a novel stretch sensitive SPRY domain coding gene in skeletal muscle J Muscle Res Cell Motil. 2002; 23: 44

  7. Protonotarios N, Tsatsopoulou A, Anastasakis A, Sevdalis E, Mckoy G, Stratos K, et al.. Genotype-phenotype assessment in autosomal recessive arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (Naxos disease) caused by a deletion in plakoglobin. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2001, 38:1477-84.

  8. Reilly ME, Mckoy G, Mantle D, Peters TJ, Goldspink G and Preedy VR. Protein and mRNA levels of the myosin heavy chain isoforms 1 beta, 2a, 2x and 2b in Type 1 and Type 11 fibre predominant rat skeletal muscles in response to chronic alcohol feeding, J Muscle Res Cell Motil. 2000, 2:763-73.

  9. Mckoy G, Protonotarios N, Crosby A, Tsatsopoulou A, Anastasakis A, Coonar A,et al Identification of a deletion in plakoglobin in arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy with palmoplantar keratoderma and woolly hair (Naxos disease). Lancet. 2000, 355:2119-2124.

  10. Mckoy G, Ashley W, Mander J, Yang SY, Williams N, Russell B, Goldspink G. Expression of insulin growth factor-1 splice variants and structural genes in rabbit skeletal muscle induced by stretch and stimulation. J Physiol. 1999, 516: 583-92.

  11. Barjot C, Laplace-Marieze V, Gannoun-Zaki L, Mckoy G, Briand M, Vigneron P, Bacou F. Expression of lactate dehydrogenase, myosin heavy chain and myogenic regulatory factor genes in rabbit embryonic muscle cell cultures. J. Muscle Res. Cell. Motil. 1998, 19: 343-5 1.

  12. 12. Mckoy G, Leger ME, Bacou F, Goldspink G. Differential expression of myosin heavy chain mRNA and protein isoforms in four functionally diverse rabbit skeletal muscles during pre- and post natal development. Dev Dyn. 1998, 21: 193-203.

  13. 13. Mckoy G, Badal M, Prescott Q, Lux H, Hart DT. Characterisation of phosphoglycerate kinase genes in Leishmania major and evidence for the absence of a third closely related gene... Mol Biochem Parasitol. 1997, 90:169-81.

  14. Mckoy G, Mander J, Williams N, Goldspink G. The effect of stretch and electrical stimulation on the expression of the type 2x myosin heavy chain gene in rabbit tibialis anterior muscle. J Physiol. 1996, 491: 98-99p.

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