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Dr. Prattis is a Diplomate of the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine, and is an experienced clinician, former academician and educator; experimental pathologist and cell biologist; and patent scientist. Originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she completed her undergraduate degree at Amherst College, and successive graduate degrees at the University of Pennsylvania (VMD), North Carolina State University (PhD), Bay Path University (MS Management and Philanthropy) and the University of Minnesota Law School (Patent Law, May 2019). Dr. Prattis has published over 30 journal articles and abstracts, and presented in biomedical and business conferences in the US, the Middle East and Africa. She has previously been awarded an American University of Beirut SEED grant, a NHLBI Minority Fellowship funding award,and internal institutional funding awards for course revision supported by Howard Hughes Medical Institute funding for research-based inquiry course development at the undergraduate level. She has served as a Co-Investigator on a multi-institutional NSF Undergraduate Mentoring in Environmental Biology teaching award. As a student, she was awarded a NIH Summer Biochemical Research Fellowship, the Mark Friedman Award in Laboratory Animal Medicine, and a NCSU Research Excellence award for her graduate research achievements. Dr. Prattis has served as a reviewer and editorial board member for several natural and social science journals and professional societies, and as organizer and presenter for sessions held at the Academy of Business and Emerging Markets conference, the Academy of Management, the American Association of Laboratory Animal Science,and the American Society of Investigative Pathology (ASIP) of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) annual conferences. Her current research interests include gastrointestinal disease microbiome and physiologic mechanisms in induced animal models; animal welfare concepts; philanthropic studies and health care management; instructional educational methods development; political and business development marketing; and intellectual property and comparative law.