Mark F. Yeckel appointed to the founding faculty of the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University

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Dec 12, 2012, 02:30 ET

HAMDEN, Conn., Dec. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mark F. Yeckel has been appointed to the founding faculty of the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University.

As an associate professor of medical sciences, Yeckel will coordinate the neuroscience curriculum and teach first and second-year students about the brain. He also will serve as co-coordinator for the basic, translational and clinical research capstone concentration. He also will chair the medical school's admissions committee.

Before coming to Quinnipiac, Yeckel was an associate professor of neurobiology and a member of The Kavli Institute for Neuroscience at the Yale University School of Medicine. During his 11 years at Yale, he taught graduate and medical school students the principles of neuroscience and human neuroanatomy.

Yeckel earned his doctorate in neuroscience from the University of Pittsburgh and his bachelor's degree in biochemistry and cellular biology from the University of California, San Diego.

The Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine, founded to address the nation's pressing need for primary care physicians, is scheduled to open in the Fall of 2013. The Liaison Committee on Medical Education recently granted the school preliminary accreditation and the Connecticut State Board of Education approved the school's medical degree program.

Quinnipiac is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian institution located 90 minutes north of New York City and two hours from Boston. The university enrolls 6,200 full-time undergraduate and 2,300 graduate students in 58 undergraduate and more than 20 graduate programs of study in its School of Business and Engineering, School of Communications, School of Education, School of Health Sciences, School of Law, Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine, School of Nursing and College of Arts and Sciences. Quinnipiac consistently ranks among the top regional universities in the North in U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges issue. The 2013 issue of U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges named Quinnipiac as the top up-and-coming school with master's programs in the Northern Region. Quinnipiac also is recognized in Princeton Review's "The Best 377 Colleges." For more information, please visit www.quinnipiac.edu. Connect with Quinnipiac on Facebook at www.facebook.com/quinnipiacuniversity and follow Quinnipiac on Twitter @QuinnipiacU.