Human Pathophysiology II

This course provides an integrated, systems-based examination of disease mechanisms affecting the human nervous, endocrine, gastrointestinal, and reproductive systems.

The course emphasizes shared biological pathways of pathogenesis including genetic and epigenetic regulation, immune-mediated injury, neoplasia, metabolic dysregulation, and impaired tissue repair, and examines how these processes contribute to multisystem disease.

Key thematic areas address clinically relevant disease processes such as pain, stress and sleep disorders, spinal cord injury, and obesity-related complications, with an emphasis on whole-body physiological consequences.

Please note that BIOS E-162a , offered in alternate years, is not a prerequisite for this course.