Associate Professor, Department of Primary Care & Health Systems, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE)
Dr. Gopalan is an Associate Professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, and is the course director of Biology of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Diseases. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate levels for a variety of allied health professions, and has authored a number of book chapters on cardiac physiology, as well as published numerous abstracts and articles in various cardiac and physiology journals.

A teaching assistant [registered Nurse Anesthetist (SRNA) in a graduate school program at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville] helped proof read the text book as it was used in the classroom.