Gary E Jeffers [Email]
Associate Professor, Director of Predoctoral Education, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, assists in the instruction for the dental hygiene students in pain and anxiety control. Jeffers received his A.B. degree in biology, English and German from Malone College; his M.S. in physiology and pharmacology from Ohio University and his D.M.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. He also completed a General Practice Residency with the U.S. Navy, and he holds certificates in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery from Emory University and Anesthesiology from the Veteran Administration Medical Center (Atlanta, GA). Jeffers has been a full-time faculty member at UDM since 1985.
Donald P Jarnevic [Email]
Associate Professor of PhilosophyJarnevic teaches aesthetics, logic, contemporary philosophy, philosophy of religion, and various courses in metaphysics, especially philosophy of God and philosophy of the person. Jarnevic's area of specialization is philosophical theology with a particular interest in the epistemology of faith. His most recent scholarly work has dealt with a number of philosophical issues involved in St. Thomas Aquinas' theory of sacred theology or "sacra doctrina." Jarnevic is currently pursuing a critical analysis of the received doctrine concerning existence in the tradition of Anglo-American analytic philosophy. A further interest is the interplay of Thomism and phenomenology as regards the treatment of the human person in the philosophical writings of St. Edith Stein and Karol Wojtyla. Jarnevic has been a participant in a National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminar, entitled "Concepts of Nature and God." Jarnevic holds an A.B. degree in philosophy from the University of Detroit, an M.A. degree in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame, an M.A. degree in religious studies from the University of Windsor, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh. Jarnevic was appointed to the faculty of UDM in 1960.
Brigid Johnson, RSM [Email]
Instructor of Mathematics, teaches basic developmental mathematics, and math analysis, and tutors in UAAS. She received a B.A. from Mercy College of Detroit, a M.A.T.M. from the University of Detroit, and a M.A. from Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Johnson worked in Campus Ministry at Mercy College from 1977-1990, and also served as adjunct professor of mathematics and religious studies. She currently studies the pedagogy of math teaching/learning and alternative, more effective, ways of teaching math to those with extreme math phobia. She joined the University in 1977.
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