PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

since 2024 

Academic Consultant (Part-Time), Mongolian Academy of Science – Institute of Physics and Technology       

since 2018

Lecturer, Language Center, German-Mongolian Institute for Resources and Technology (GMIT)

2018 – 2019   

Visiting Scholar and Advisor, Department of Research and Innovation, Mongolian National Defence University, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia                 

2016 – 2018  

Director, Department of Faculty Human Resources, University of the Humanities – Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia                2012 - 2016    

Director, Academic Programs, American University of Mongolia – Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

2011 – 2012   

Visiting Professor, Mongolian Studies Institute; and Consultant, Office of International Affairs

2011 - 2012    

English Language Instructor, English Translation Program

2011 - 2012    

Part-Time English Teacher (Post-Baccalaureate Degree Program), University of the Humanities – Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

2009 – 2011   

Resident Director, American Center for Mongolian Studies – Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia             

2007-2008      

Associate Instructor, Central Eurasian Studies Department, Indiana University – Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana, USA             

2002-2007      

Program Officer, Office of Vice President for International Affairs, Indiana University – Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana, USA                                    

2001 – 2003   

Clinical Department Review Program Administrator, Office of the Dean, Harvard University Medical School, Boston, MA, USA                              

1997-2001      

Administrative Director, Department of Medicine, Harvard-affiliated – HRCA (LTC Hospital), Boston, MA, USA          

1995 - 1997    

LCME and NEASC Accreditation Review Officer, Office of the Dean and Vice Chancellor for Education and Curriculum Coordinator, Office of Medical Education, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, MA, USA 

1990–1995     

Associate Director, Planning and Administration, AHERF Institute on Aging, and Associate Director, Center for Gerontological Research, Medical College of Pennsylvania, Hahnemann University

1980 – 1990   

Assistant Director, Center for the Study of Aging, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA  1977 - 1981    

Senior Research Technician, Cristofalo Laboratory, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA, USA           

1977 - 1981    

Senior Research Technician, Cristofalo Laboratory, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA, USA                                                                                                                      

RESEARCH PROJECTS AND EXPERIENCE

PRESENTATIONS

2012

Invited Lecturer, “Mongolia’s Contact with Central Eurasia: Past, Present, Future,” Department of Political Science, Kuwait National University

2010

Invited Lectures, Doctoral Student Program, Anthropology Department, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, “The Anthropology of Borders” and “Original Sources in Translation: The Use of Historical Cases in Anthropology”

2010

Invited Lecturer, Young Leaders Program, Northeast Asia Economic Forum, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, “Sino-Mongolian Relations to the Late Qing Period”

2009

Invited Lecturer: Academy of Management, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, “Lessons from the Past on Leadership in Mongolia: Emchi Ghabang Sharab’s History of the Four Oirats”

2008

Research Presentation: 9th Annual Central Eurasian Studies Society Conference, Washington, DC, "The Rise and Fall of the Oirats in Emchi Ghabang Sharab’s History of the Four Oirats" 

2007

Research Presentation: 14th Annual Association of Central Eurasian Studies Conference, Bloomington, IN, “On the Confluence of Colonialism and Uti Possedetis in the Qing Western Borderlands,” Panel on “Inner Asian History,” 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE /Courses/

• European History, GMIT
  
• Intercultural Competence and Communication, GMIT
• English, B2, GMIT
• English, Post-Baccalaureate Program, University of Humanities
• Inner Asian History, Indiana University
• Short Courses (Faculty Research Development)
• Writing Research Papers for International Publications, International Conference Presentations, Research Design - Mongolian National University of Arts and Culture, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
  
• Academic English, Research Design, Publishing in International Journals, International Conference Presentations, Mongolian National University of Defense, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
• Director, Short Course on Elements of Academic Success in International Institutions of Higher Education, School of Physics, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
• Workshops (Faculty Research Development)
• Mendeley, Academic English, Journal Clubs - Mongolian National University of Arts and Culture, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
• Grant Applications for International Funding, Writing Your Research for Publication in International Journals, Presenting Your Research at International Conferences, GMIT, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

PUBLICATIONS

PUBLICATIONS

• Cristofalo, V.J., Palazzo, R., and Charpentier, R.L. 1979 Chronologic vs replicative lifespan in human cell cultures: a reexamination. The Gerontologist 19:59.
• Vorbrodt, A., Charpentier, R.L., and Cristofalo, V.J. 1979. Effect of cell density and senescence of WI-38 cells on cytochemically demonstrable phosphatases. Mech. Aging and Develop.,11: 113-125.
• Cristofalo, V.J., Palazzo, R., and Charpentier, R.L. 1980. Limited lifespan of human fibroblasts invitro: metabolic time or replications? In: Modern Aging Research 1: Neural Regulatory Mechanisms During Aging (R.C. Adelman, J. Roberts, G.T. Baker, III, S.I. Baskin and V.J. Cristofalo, eds.), Alan R. Liss, Inc., New York, pp 203-206.
• Cristofalo, V.J. and Charpentier, R.L. 1980. A standard procedure for cultivating human diploid fibroblast-like cells to study cellular aging. J. Tissue Culture Methods, 6: 117-121.
• Chang, T.H., Mitchell, K.F., Charpentier, R.L., and Cristofalo, V.J. 1982. Changes in surface antigen expression associated with SV40 transformation of human fibroblast cell lines. In Vitro 18: 282.
• Tan, K.B., Borun, T.W., Charpentier, R.L., Cristofalo, V.J., and Croce, C.M. 1982. Normal and neoplastic human cells have different histone H1 compositions. J.Biol. Chem. 257: 5337-5338.
• Nichols, W.W., Cristofalo, V.J., Toji, L.H., Greene, A.E., Aronson, M.M., Dwight, S., Charpentier, R.L., and Hoffman, E. 1983. Characterization of a new human diploid cell line - IMR-91.In Vitro, 19: 797-804.
• Kator, K., Cristofalo, V.J., Charpentier, R.L., and Cutler, R.G. 1985. Dysdifferentiative nature of aging: passage number dependence of globin gene expression in normal human diploid cells grown in tissue culture. Gerontology 31: 355-361.
• Cristofalo, V.J., Charpentier, R.L., and Phillips, P.D. 1994. Serial propagation of human fibroblasts for the study of aging at the cellular level.In: Cell Biology: A Laboratory Handbook. Academic Press, Inc., New York, Vol. 1, pp. 313-318.
• Cristofalo, V.J., Charpentier, R.L., and Phillips, P.D. 1998. Serial propagation of human fibroblasts. Section I: Senescence and Apoptosis. In: Cell Biology: A Laboratory Handbook, 2nd edition. Academic Press, Inc., New York, Vol. 1, pp. 321-326.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

2006-2010

MA, Department of Central Eurasian Studies (Mongolian Studies Program), Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA  

1973-1977

BA cum laude, Biology (Marine Zoology), College of Liberal Arts, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA 

TRAINING

2008

Summer Language Fellowship (Mongolian), American Center for Mongolian Studies, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

2002

Summer Institute, University of World Economics and Diplomacy, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

1994 

First Annual Summer Institute, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

1992

Management Training Workshop, Allegheny Health, Education, and Research Foundation, Cheltenham, PA

1991 

DHHS Course on “Orientation to Grants and Contracts for Applicants and Recipients of Awards,” Boston, MA

1990 

NIH Course on Funding Priorities/Strategies, Virginia Beach, VA