Laboratory Faculty

Richard Doolittle, Ph.D.

Vice Dean
Biomedical Sciences
College of Health Sciences and Technology
585-475-5972
rldsbi@rit.edu
Suite 1690  Slaughter Hall

Dr. Richard Doolittle currently serves as Vice Dean, College of Health Sciences and Technology at Rochester Institute of Technology. In that position he works to manage operations of the College and oversee degree programs and the overall learning environment for undergraduate and graduate students. He also assists in the development of RIT’s strategic partnership with Rochester Regional Health System. Prior to this assignment Doolittle held positions as Assistant Provost for Undergraduate Education and Head of the School of Life Sciences that included the Departments of Medical Sciences and Biological Sciences at RIT.

Over the past ten years, he has helped to serve the RIT/NTID deaf/hard-of-hearing population in their career reparation for future positions in health care and research in the biomedical and behavioral sciences. He is Co-PI with Dr. Steven Dewhurst from the University of Rochester School of Medicine on a five-year NIH support program entitled the “Rochester Postdoctoral Partnership” whose mission it is to train deaf/hard-of-hearing professionals (MD and/or PhD prepared) in teaching and research to prepare them for future positions in academia. He also has administrative responsibilities for two other NIH-supported programs designed to support deaf/hard-of-hearing students from  undergraduate through graduate level programming. Additionally, Doolittle participates in a research initiative
that utilizes 3D modeling and newly developed software programming designed as virtual reality therapeutic interventions for those with problems of substance abuse and anger management. Additionally, he created and manages RIT’s Medical Simulation Laboratory, which services student training across the College’s curricula.

Doolittle has served as a professor at RIT since 1986 and has served as an adjunct clinical professor at both Nazareth and Ithaca Colleges. Before joining RIT, he served as an associate professor and acting chair of the Department of Anatomy at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Doolittle holds a BA in biology from the University of Bridgeport and a MS/PhD in pathology and anatomy from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.