BIO & RESEARCH INTERESTs

Mark Esparza is a second year osteopathic medical student at the Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Tulsa and is enrolled in the MS in Biomedical Sciences at OSU Center for Health Sciences. His work includes OcuTrace, a smartphone tool for recording eye movements; SnaCleX, a browser tool for analyzing how small molecules bind to proteins; and Chemtool, a chemistry workbench for medical and pharmacology education. He holds an MBA from Oklahoma State University and a BS in Community Health from the University of Oklahoma.

Research interests: eye movement disorders (nystagmus, saccades); protein and ligand binding and binding pocket analysis; cheminformatics; educational software for medicine and pharmacology; health literacy.

DEGREES

  • BS, Community Health
    University of Oklahoma, United States2023
  • MBA
    Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, United States2025

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Professional Certificate in Computer Science for Python Programming
    Harvard University, United States
    HarvardX, offered through edX