Drake Institute welcomes Larry Hurtubise, curriculum and instructional specialist

The Michael V. Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning is pleased to welcome Larry Hurtubise, M.A., PhD (ABD), who has joined the institute from the College of Pharmacy as a curriculum and instructional specialist.

Larry will serve as a consultant to faculty teams, programs, departments and units as they re-envision and refine curricula or develop new curricula at Ohio State. He is a curriculum and instruction doctoral candidate at Ohio University, where he is studying the professional identity formation of clinician educators. 

After receiving a master’s degree in adult education from Ohio State, Larry provided consultations and professional development for faculty in the Health Sciences as they developed online and blended courses. More recently, his work has focused on providing programs to develop skills in teaching and the scholarship of teaching and learning for the purpose of enhancing health professions education. 

Larry is a past member of the College of Medicine’s Faculty Advancement Mentoring and Engagement executive board as well as the College of Education and Human Ecology alumni board. He holds a “Train the Trainer” certificate in implicit bias mitigation, and has written and presented extensively on topics related to educational technology. 

His other research interests include instructional design, interprofessional education, mentoring and online faculty communities of practice.