Undergraduate School

B.A., Magna Cum Laude, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr PA 1967

Medical School

M.D., UC Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento CA 1974

Internship

Internal Medicine, Sacramento Medical Center, Sacramento CA 1974-1976

Edward A. Dickson Professorship Award, UC Davis, 2010

Lily Prize, Best Research in Diabetes, 1994

Joan Oettinger Memorial Award for Research in Pulmonary Disease, 1984

National Heart, Blood and Lung Young Investigator Award, 1981, 1982, 1983

Loren D. Carlson Award for Best Research by a Senior Medicine Student, 1974

Reiser KM, Stoller P, Knoesen A. Three-Dimensional Geometry of Collagenous Tissues by Second Harmonic Polarimetry. Scientific Reports. 2017 Jun 1;7:2642.

Reiser KM, McCourt AB, Yankelevich DR, Knoesen A. Structural origins of chiral second-order optical nonlinearity in collagen: amide I band. Biophys J. 2012 Nov 21;103(10):2177-86. doi:10.1016/j.bpj.2012.10.017. Epub 2012 Nov 20. PMID:23200051.

Reiser K, Knoesen A. Parametric nonlinearity in plant polysaccharides: A new harvest. Nonlinear Optics and Quantum Optics. 2011;42(3/4):203-232.

Bratton CG, Reiser KM, Yankelevich DR. Computational approach for quantifying sructural disorder in biomolecular lattices. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2009;54(18):10.

Bratton CG, Reiser KM, Yankelevich DR. Determination of Frank-Oseen parameters in collagen using polarizationmodulated second harmonic signal. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2009;54(1):11.

Lotz JC, Hadi T, Bratton C, Reiser KM, Hsieh AH. Anulus fibrosus tension inhibits degenerative structural changes in lamellar collagen. Eur Spine J. 2008 Sep;17(9):1149-59. doi:10.1007/s00586-008-0721-y. Epub 2008 Jul 31. PMID:18668268.

Reiser KM, Bratton C, Yankelevich DR, Knoesen A, Rocha-Mendoza I, Lotz J. Quantitative analysis of structural disorder in intervertebral disks using second harmonic generation imaging: comparison with morphometric analysis. J Biomed Opt. 2007 Nov-Dec;12(6):064019. doi:10.1117/1.2812631. PMID:18163835.

Rocha-Mendoza I, Yankelevich DR, Wang M, Reiser KM, Frank CW, Knoesen A. Sum frequency vibrational spectroscopy: the molecular origins of the optical second-order nonlinearity of collagen. Biophys J. 2007 Dec 15;93(12):4433-44. doi:10.1529/biophysj.107.111047. Epub 2007 Aug 31. PMID:17766339.

Wang M, Reiser KM, Knoesen A. Spectral moment invariant analysis of disorder in polarization-modulated second-harmonic-generation images obtained from collagen assemblies. J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis. 2007 Nov;24(11):3573-86. doi:10.1364/josaa.24.003573. PMID:17975584.

Wagner DR, Reiser KM, Lotz JC. Glycation increases human annulus fibrosus stiffness in both experimental measurements and theoretical predictions. J Biomech. 2006;39(6):1021-9. doi:10.1016/j.jbiomech.2005.02.013. PMID:15878594.