Alex Meredith, PhD is professor emeritus of Anatomy and Neurobiology at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine in Richmond, VA. His research laboratory focused on the neuroscience of neuronal processing of multi sensory information and resulted in 100 peer-reviewed publications and more than 20 graduate students. Dr. Meredith also has more than 45 years of experience teaching Neuroscience and Gross Anatomy, over which he has impacted thousands of Medical, Dental and Graduate students. He has several publications describing innovations for teaching anatomy online (a pandemic necessity) as well as multiple teaching awards. But his scientific career began in an unusual way, as a freelance biomedical illustrator (JHU Art in Medicine, 1978). Creating effective visual depictions of medical or scientific processes was fascinating, but in 1980 Alex was moved by a series of lectures on the Hodgkin-Huxley model of neuronal conductance, which implied that ion fluxes across cell membranes could account for all human action, thought and consciousness. Indeed, his subsequent research was based on neuronal information processing, but his recent interests have expanded to include the epistemological bases for science itself. Accordingly, Alex’s favorite quotation (by Einstein): “The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.”
