Dr. Todd Zakrajsek is an Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Faculty Development Fellowship in the UNC School of Medicine. Dr. Zakrajsek has founded or reconfigured, and then directed, centers for teaching and learning at UNC-Chapel Hill, Central Michigan University, and Southern Oregon University (where he also taught as a tenured Associate Professor of Psychology).  

Dr. Zakrajsek has served on many educational boards, including The Journal of Excellence in College Teaching; International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning; Technology Enriched Instruction (Microsoft); Communicating Science in K-12 (Harvard); and Education Research Initiative (Lenovo). Currently, he directs 5 national Lilly Conferences on Evidence-Based Teaching and Learning. 

Todd’s recently co-authored books include Dynamic Lecturing: Research-based Strategies to Enhance Lecture Effectiveness (2017); Teaching for Learning: 101 Intentionally Designed Education Activities to Put Students on the Path to Success (2015); and The New Science of Learning: How to Learn in Harmony with Your Brain (2013). He has been a visiting professor and delivered keynote addresses at approximately 300 campuses and teaching conferences in 46 states, 11 countries, and 4 continents.