Education, Mentoring, and Virtual Microbiology

 

Professor Thomas has traveled a unique academic career path involving clinical microbiology in laboratory medicine at selected medical and dental institutions including Northeast Ohio University College of Medicine, Rutgers University and West Virginia University (WVU), nationally; and, internationally, National University of Singapore (NUS) and Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales UK (sabbatical).

Dr. Thomas retired from WVU as Professor Emeritus in June 2013, having spent 23 years integrating three appointments in School of Medicine (Pathology, Clinical Pharmacy and Graduate School, Department of Microbiology) as well as School of Dentistry, Department of Periodontics and Endodontics.  Presently, Dr. Thomas is affiliated with Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, while linking education and translational research at MGH in Boston, MA.

Professor Thomas, a motivational speaker, has received numerous teaching awards, nationally and internationally, including the highest teaching award at WVU while lecturing and directing numerous classes and annual workshops at post graduate level, including chairing 14 committees for specialty degrees on SoD.

He has numerous publications and book chapters covering clinical microbiology, linking dentistry and medicine.  Dr. Thomas has been recently recognized for his use of "The Culture Plate Gang", a consortium of 6 puppets highlighting benchmarks in his translational research, creating an invigorating connection with his audiences.

• "Culture Plate Gang" Puppets
• Lecture Topics

Educational Tools

1. Probiotic Cheat Sheet

Key Points

1. Clinical Microbiology/ Organism Detection
2. Biofilms and 3M’s: Metagenomics/Microbiota/ and Mycobiota.
3. Oral Microbiota recognizing oral Fungi
4. RX: Intervention and Management
5. Probiotics and Restorative Microbiology (Probiotics)
6. Hologenomic Theory and Prebiotics, Probiotics and Psy-chobiotics
7. Education: Un-learning the Learned.
8. Micro-centric Aging (New, underdevelopment)
9. One Health: Animals, Humans and the Globe. (New, Under Construction)
10. Microbiome First Medicine
11. Bacteriophage, Beneficial good viruses.

Mini Micro Videos

30 minute pre-recorded presentations.

Please contact Dr Thomas directly (jgthomas@hsc.wvu.edu) as he will update the Mini Micro presentations with his ongoing power-points, tailored to individual requests and needs, where appropriate.

1. Biofilms:  Architect of Survival
2. Biofilms:  Chronic Diseases, Head to Foot
3. An Engineered Ventilator-Endotrach-lung-Model (VEL-Model)
4. Diagnostic Microbiology, Pathology and Biofilms
5. Rediscovering the Benefit of “Microbial Engineering”:  Probiotics
6. Putting the Pieces Together: Linking Oral Care, Biofilms and Pneumonia
7. Defining the Impact of Microbes in Chronic Wounds: “A Biofilm Reactor”
8. Prebiotics and Probiotics:  Old Fad with New Interventions
9. Biofilms as Procaryotic Tumors…..or are Tumors Eucaryotic Biofilms????
10. Universal Microbial Principles:  Anti-Koch
11. Metagenomics and Health:  So What??
12. Chronic Wounds:  Periodontal Pockets without Teeth
13. Special Needs patients:  Integrating Special Needs Dentistry with Aged Care
14. Beneficial Microbes: Herbal Probiotics
15. Micro-centric Aging or Aging as a Disease: “Are you crazy?”
16. Climate Change, Potable Water and Microbes:  The Next Global Crisis?
17. Lessons Politicians could Learn from Microbes and Socio-Microbiology (Biofilms)
18. Negotiating with Microbes: “Microbial Justice”
19. Building a Better Human thru Microbiology
20. Banking on your Microbial Wealth
21. Microbes: Barometers of (Global/Human/Others) Health (Under construction)