Dr. Don W. Korte, Jr.
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Dr. Don Korte is Chair of the Department of Natural Sciences. His teaching responsibilities include teaching environmental chemistry and toxicology for graduate students in environmental education; genetics, and senior seminar for biology majors; general biology for pharmacy students, and physical and life sciences for students in the various education programs. He is the pre-pharmacy advisor for students at Concordia. Dr. Korte is the Chair of the CUW Institutional Review Board and a member of the Advisory Board of the Concordia Bioethics Institute. He was the faculty representative on the Bluff Task Force that oversaw the restoration of the Concordia shoreline and was the faculty representative on the Pharmacy Task Force which recommended establishment of a School of Pharmacy at Concordia.
Prior to his arrival at Concordia in 1994, Dr. Korte was an officer in the U.S. Army Medical Services Corps. He was initially assigned to the Department of Pharmacology at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, D.C., where he helped develop drugs for the treatment/prevention of malaria and other tropical diseases. Part of his duties at the WRAIR was to direct the extramural toxicology program for drug development. In 1983, Dr. Korte was assigned to the Letterman Army Institute of Research, San Francisco, as Director of the Division of Toxicology. The Division of Toxicology conducted a GLP-compliant toxicity-testing program charged with evaluating the safety of materials developed in various U.S. Army programs. In 1990, he was assigned to the U.S. Army Institute of Chemical Defense, Edgewood, Maryland, and stationed at the Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio. At Battelle, he directed an extramural research program for the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command until his retirement in 1994. His awards include the Meritorious Service Medal (with several Oak Leaf Clusters) for research conducted during his military career and the Legion of Merit for exceptional duty during the Gulf War.
Dr. Korte attended the College of William and Mary (B.S., biology), Murray State University (M.S., biology), the University of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences (Ph.D., pharmacology), and Concordia University Wisconsin (LCMS Colloquy). His thesis was a comparison of inorganic and methyl mercury intoxication in the rat and his dissertation was an evaluation of the electrophysiological interactions of quinidine and propranolol on the heart. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology (1988, recertified 1993, 1998, and 2003) and a Fellow of the International Academy of Christian Apologetics and Human Rights. Dr. Korte is a member of the Society of Toxicology, American College of Toxicology, and the Western Pharmacology Society. He holds a patent for the prevention of cyanide intoxication and has authored four book chapters, over 40 refereed articles, and over 200 government publications/technical reports (for submission to the US Food and Drug Administration or the US Environmental Protection Agency). Dr. Korte has coauthored over 60 presentations for regional, governmental, national, and international conferences. His research interests include autonomic and cardiac pharmacology, pharmaceutical and environmental toxicology, infectious diseases, chemical agent antidotes, and bioethics.
Dr. Korte lives in Mequon with his wife, Mary, who also teaches science at Concordia. They have a son who graduated from Concordia University River Forest and teaches English at Kettle Moraine High School in Wales. Dr. Korte is a member of St. John’s Lutheran Church in Glendale and sings in the adult choir. He operates the scoreboard and runs the clock at Falcon football games. His hobbies include shooting trap, bird-watching, snorkeling, travel (especially to the Caribbean), and sailing.
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