Department of Anthropology

What makes us different is what makes us human..

Mark P. Mooney

Professor

Mark Mooney received his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in 1986. He holds joint appointments in the Departments of Oral Medicine and Pathology, Anthropology, Surgery-Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, and Orthodontics in the Schools of Dental Medicine and Medicine.

He is a biological anthropologist whose interests include craniofacial and developmental biology, growth and development, comparative anatomy, experimental morphology, and physiological adaptations to extreme environments.

He is concerned with helping the student understand the complex genetic and environmental factors that are involved in shaping the human face and body.

His principal field of interest is the development of various animal models to investigate the interaction of plastic surgery and congenital facial abnormalities on postnatal craniofacial growth in individuals with birth defects to the head and neck.

mpm4@pitt.edu

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