Environmental and Health Sciences Faculty & Staff

Dr. Rosalind Gregory-Bass is chair and an assistant professor in the Environmental and Health Sciences Program. She is also the director of the Health Careers Program at Spelman College. She completed her undergraduate education at Spelman graduating cum laude with a bachelor of science degree in biology in 1992. 

Interested in musculoskeletal anatomy and physiology, she attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, becoming the first African-American woman to receive her master’s degree for the department in 1994. 

While in graduate school, Dr. Gregory-Bass developed an interest in not only the basic science perspective of musculoskeletal anatomy and physiology, but desired a clinical perspective as well.  She was accepted to the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School and received her M.D. in 1999. 

She completed an internal medicine internship at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, and a residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at Eastern Virginia Medical School. In her last year of residency, she became the department’s first African-American chief resident.  Never losing site of her first two loves, research and teaching, she began a post-doctoral research fellowship at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta. 

Her research focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms regulating ovarian cancer growth and development.  Her basic science and clinical research interests to date focus on women’s health and development of pipeline programs that foster biomedical graduate and professional educational opportunities for women of color. In addition to her role as a professor in the Environmental and Health Sciences Program, she also serves as the director of the Health Careers Program.

FYE 101-102:  Freshman Year Experience
BIO 115: Organismal Form and Function
HSP 201:  Introduction to Health Science
HSP 202:  Health Informatics
HSP 400:  Global Health in the 21st Century:  Emerging Infectious and Chronic Diseases
HSP 401:  Research and Evaluation in the Health Sciences
HSP/BIO 472: Mammalian Physiology

NTC Tolbert, R Gregory-Bass. (2020) “Professional Development of the New Generation of Pre-Health Students” The Advisor, Volume 40 (3): 7.

R Gregory-Bass, LL Winfield (2020) “Preliminary Analysis of Anti-proliferative, Apoptotic, and Anti-migratory Effects llw-3-6 in Skov-3 Ovarian Cystadenocarcinoma Cell Line” Letters in Drug Design & Discovery, Volume 17(10), pp. 1319-1324(6).

LL Winfield, R Gregory-Bass, J Campbell, A Watkins, (2014) “Characterizing Ligand Interactions in Wild-type and Mutated HIV-1 Proteases” Journal of Computational Science Education, Volume 5(1).

Saunders, L., Ekoja, E, Whitlock, C., DiPiro, N., Gregory-Bass, R., Krause, J. (2013) “A comparison of health behaviors between African Americans with spinal cord injury and those in the general population.” Neurorehabilitation, Volume 33 (3), pp. 449-456.

Gregory-Bass, R., Williams, R., Peters, B., Blount, A. (2013) “Undergraduate Preparedness to Enhance Diversity in Kinesiology.” Kinesiology Review, Volume 2, pp. 181-189.

Saunders, L., Gregory-Bass, R., Krause, J. “Gender, Race, Pain, and Subjective Well-Being in Spinal Cord Injury Patients.” (August, 2013), Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, Volume 24, Number 3, pp. 1257-1265.

Harris Peterson, S., Holmes, M., Gregory-Bass, R., Winfield, L. (2012) “Leveraging HIV in Curricular Innovation at Spelman College.” Faculty Resource Network Journal.

Gregory-Bass, R., Olatinwo M, Xu W, Matthews R, et al. (2008) “Prohibitin silencing reverses stabilization of mitochondrial integrity and chemoresistance in ovarian cancer cells by increasing their sensitivity to apoptosis.” International Journal of Cancer. Volume 122, pp. 1923-1930.

Seivwright, T.L., Geary, F., Matthews, R. Gregory-Bass, R. (2008) “Sacrococcygeal teratoma: An unusual case of recurrence.” Resident and Staff Physician. Volume 54, No. 4.

Mozdiak, P.E., T. Fassel, R. Gregory, E. Schultz, M.L. Greaser, and R.G. Cassens, (1994). “Quantitation of satellite cell proliferation in vivo using image analysis.” Biotechnic and Histochemistry. Volume 69, No. 5, pp. 249-252.

1000 Inspiring African American Scientists, 2021

President, National Association of Medical Minority Educators, 2020

Blacks in STEM in Academia, 2020

National Society of Collegiate Scholars, 2013

Scholar in Residence, New York University, Faculty Resource Network, 2012

Spelman College Presidential Excellence in Teaching Award for Junior Faculty, 2012

Golden Key Honor Society, Spelman College Chapter, Honorary Member, 2012

National Faculty Role Model Award, Minority Access, Inc. 2011

Preparing Critical Faculty for the Future Scholar, Association of American Colleges & Universities, 2011

Alpha Lambda Delta Honorary Society, Spelman College Chapter, Honorary Member, 2009