Experience

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo

• United States
• Higher Education
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Vice President for Health Sciences and Dean Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

  • Dec 2021 - Present

  Dr. Brashear is the Vice President for Health Sciences and Dean of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. As dean, she oversees more than 913 faculty and staff, 2,079 students, 845 trainees in graduate medical education, and 27 departments and 25 centers within the Jacobs School. As vice president for health sciences, she has administrative responsibility for the other four schools within UB’s Academic Health Center: dental medicine, nursing, pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences, and public health and health professions. Brashear is an internationally known neurologist and researcher in movement disorders. She is an expert in ATP1A3-related diseases with continuous National Institutes of Health (2008) as the PI of “Clinical Genetic and Cellular Consequences of Mutations in ATP1A3” and she was principal investigator 40 clinical trials in cervical dystonia and spasticity, leading to 3 FDA-approved medications. Before joining UB, Brashear was dean of the UC Davis School of Medicine (2019-2021) and for 14 years was the chair of neurology at Wake Forest School of Medicine (2005-2019). She earned her medical degree (1987) and completed her neurology residency at Indiana University School of Medicine (1991), and MBA at Fuqua School of Business at Duke University (2012). She completed the Association of American Medical Colleges Council of Deans fellowship (2014), ELAM (2007). Brashear is a trustee to the McKnight Brain Research Foundation and is a director on the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, the organization responsible for board accreditation for psychiatrist and neurologists. While at UC Davis. and she served on the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine’s Independent Citizens’ Oversight Committee. Additionally, she has served on the boards of the American Neurological Association and the American Academy of Neurology, where she was instrumental in crafting a leadership program for women. Show less


University of California, Davis - School of Medicine
• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Dean, School of Medicine

  • Jul 2019 - Dec 2021


Wake Forest School of Medicine

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chair of Neurology. co-director of Neuroscience Service Line, Professor of Neurology

  • Aug 2005 - Jul 2019

  Professor and Chair of Neurology, Walter C. Teagle Endowed Chair of Neurology. Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC: Co-Executive Director of Neuroscience Service line with Neurosurgery. August 15, 2005 to present. Interim Psychiatry Chair (8/1/14-1/15/15) National Leadership: American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology - Board of Directors, American Academy of Neurology (AAN)- Board of Directors, Extensive AAN committee service (education, medical economic, leadership development committee, accreditation); NINDS NST-1(K) (Chair 10/18). Multiple NINDS Ad hoc committee. Research:Grew total research to $6,182,346 in FY 17. FY 15 to FY 17 grew total research portfolio by 300%. • increased diversity of women and minorities. LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT: Harvard School of Public Health: Leadership Development for Physicians in Academic Health Centers program (2004), ELAM (Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine), 2007, . Selected for AAMC Council of Deans fellowship, 2014-2015. PUBLICATIONS: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/1rgmqm3ilLG/bibliography/45323375/public/?sort=date&direction=ascending Show less



Indiana University School of Medicine

• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Professor of Neurology

  • Jul 1991 - Aug 2005

  Indiana University School of Medicine (1991-2005) • Professor of Neurology & Vice-Chair of Clinical Practice and Practice, Department of Neurology including incentive plan, coding, compensation, service standards, departmental integration of a private group, served on Clarian Health business group. • Appointed by the Dean of Indiana University School of Medicine — Chair of Teacher-Learner Advocacy Committee, Task Force on Professional and Educational Environment, Chair of AAMC Graduation Questionnaire Ad Hoc Committee (See Brater D. Infusing Professionalism into a School of Medicine, Perspectives from the Dean Acad Med. 2007; 82:1094–1097). • Chair of Clinical Research Strategic Planning Committee, September, 2003 – June 2004; charged with making recommendations for doubling the research dollars at IUSM in next 10 yrs.- Show less