Corey Ptak is the Assistant Director of Faculty Programs and Services, Irving Medical Center, at Columbia University’s Center for Teaching and Learning.
He earned his Ph.D in Environmental Toxicology from Cornell University. In his postdoctoral career, Dr. Ptak became interested in STEM education and served as a lecturer at Cornell University and the Rochester Institute of Technology. Dr. Ptak has extensive knowledge of education theory, practice and evaluation. In addition to his teaching in the biological and environmental sciences he has developed and coordinated programs focused on research based teaching practices in STEM classrooms. He also helped found the ACCESS network––a national information sharing network for programs seeking to improve equity and inclusion in STEM.