Omar Logue PhD

Dr. Omar Christopher Logue, recently a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Neurology at UMMC, has joined the Medical Center faculty as an assistant professor of cell and molecular biology after a brief stint as an instructor in neurology. After receiving his B.S. in biology from Millsaps College in 1993, Logue served as a laboratory technician in the Department of Microbiology at UMMC from 1993-97 before joining the U.S. Army.

Dr. Omar served as an airborne infantryman in the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, from 2001-06, then entered graduate school in the neuroscience program at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. He earned his Ph.D. there in 2014 and became a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Neurology. During his postdoctoral training, he was selected by the Office of Postdoctoral Studies to attend the Millsaps Business Advantage Program in the fall of 2016.

An active member of the American Heart Association and the American Physiological Society and an affiliate member of the Myrlie Evers Williams Institute for the Elimination of Health Disparities, Logue is the author or coauthor of eight articles in peer-reviewed publications and 19 research abstracts and posters. Recipient of the 2018 Trustmark Postdoctoral Fellow Publication Award, he has given five presentations at scientific meetings nationally and has served as a reviewer for a number of scientific journals.