Sarah Traynor is the course director for PA Anatomy 629.
She teaches dissection-based clinical anatomy to PA students in the summer, and teaches clinical anatomy, histology, and embryology to medical students in the fall and spring semesters. She has been teaching anatomy at UW School of Medicine and Public Health since 2016.
Traynor’s research has included studying the relative limb size and locomotor behavior of hominin species in the human evolutionary record. She has been published in the Journal of Anatomy, South African Journal of Science, and the American Journal of Biological Anthropology. She has done fieldwork in Tanzania, South Africa and Croatia.
She graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a PhD in anthropology in 2017.