Joel Talsma, MS

Joel Talsma is currently an Assistant Professor of Anatomy at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine and School of Dental Medicine, where he teaches gross anatomy, histology, embryology, and medical imaging to students and residents. He received his bachelor’s degree in anthropology and biology from the University of Southern Maine and master’s degree in Anatomy and Physiology from the New York Chiropractic College. Professor Talsma has been teaching anatomy at medical colleges for the past 10 years and has previously been a faculty/lecturer of anatomy, imaging, and ultrasound at Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine (TUCOM), and California North state Medical and the Advanced Osteopathy Institute in Milan, Italy, as well as a volunteer instructor for various International Pain and Spine Intervention Society in-person learning courses. Additional work experience includes working as a histopathology technician, forensic autopsy technician, and Thiel cadaver embalming.

Professor Talsma was a key investigator in “The Source and the Course of the Articular Branches to the T4-T8 Zygapophysial Joints,” research on the innervation of the spine through Duke University and the International Pain and Spine Intervention Society and was awarded the “Best Basic Science Abstract”. Professor Talsma has also co-authored the book chapter “The Fascia System: Embryology, Organization and Composition” in the “Textbook of Osteopathy” and has participated in the anatomic review of articles for the Journal of Osteopathic Medicine (JOM) for the “OMT Minute”. Professor Talsma also teaches anatomy to physicians in various CME programs including through the Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons of California (OPSC).

Avid paddle boarder discovering the islands of Casco Bay in Maine.