Dr
Claudia
McDonald

Personal Information

Title: 
Dr
First Name: 
Claudia
Last Name: 
McDonald
Job Title/Job Description: 
Associate Vice President for Special Projects
Organization: 
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

Bio

Claudia L. McDonald, Ph.D., Associate Vice President for Special Projects at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, oversees the university’s Center for Virtual Medical Education, a leader in research and development of sophisticated learning platforms utilizing cutting-edge video-game technology.

The Virtual Clinical Learning Lab, the center’s signature project, which since March 2005 has received more than $15 million in congressional funding through the Office of Naval Research.

McDonald also has recruited an international research and development team of renowned subject-matter experts for Pulse!! and hired top-flight BreakAway, Ltd., of Hunt Valley, Md., a leading developer of entertainment games, game-based simulations and training software, to produce the Pulse!! learning platform under McDonald’s direction.

McDonald has been at A&M-Corpus Christi since joining the faculty as an assistant professor in 1988. Ten years later, she was named full professor and assistant dean of the College of Science and Technology, a post she held until 2001.

As Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs from 2001 to 2004, McDonald developed and deployed “eLINE” (Electronic Learning in Nursing Education), an nationwide online delivery system for competency-based education.

Named to her current post in 2004, McDonald has pursued the Pulse!! project full time.