Patricia Brewer

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[edit] Biographical Sketch – Patricia Anne Brewer

Academic Appointments: 01/2001 - Present Assistant Professor UTHSCSA, Department of Physical Therapy, San Antonio, TX

01/2001 - Present Assistant Professor UTHSCSA, Department of Cellular & Structural Biology, San Antonio, TX

01/2001 - Present Assistant Professor UTHSCSA, Department of Radiology, San Antonio, TX

02/1999 - 08/1999 Adjunct Lecturer Academy of Health Sciences Ft. Sam Houston, Department of Respiratory Care, San Antonio, TX

01/1999 - 01/2001 Senior Lecturer UTSA, Department of Life Sciences, San Antonio, TX

01/1999 - 05/1999 Adjunct Lecturer University of Texas Medical Branch, Department of Physical Therapy, Galveston, TX

01/1999 - 05/1999 Adjunct Lecturer Academy of Health Sciences Ft. Sam Houston, Department of Physical Therapy, San Antonio, TX

08/1998 - 01/2001 Adjunct Assistant Professor UTHSCSA, Department of Physical Therapy, San Antonio, TX

Other Appointments: 08/1997 - 05/1999 Research Science Associate V UTSA, San Antonio, TX

08/1992 - 05/1993 Research Science Associate V UTSA, San Antonio, TX

Role in Graduate Program: Adjunct Faculty Committee: COGS Course Instructor: Radiological Anatomy & Physiology Faculty Advisor: No Graduates Supervised: none Students Supervising: none Education: Year Degree Discipline Institution/Location

1984 PhD Anatomy Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD

1975 BS Psychology (Cum Laude ) Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Post Graduate Training: Post Doctoral Fellowship

Discipline Institution/Location

Neurochemistry National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

Continuing education: Teaching – Date Description C.E.Hours 07/14/2004 Designing Competency Based Education, This was a course offered through the UTHSCSA ERD TEXAS Professional Development Series. 0.00 / 4.00 04/22/2004 Making Online Teaching and Learning Accessible, This was a telecourse offered by UTHSCSA through PBS. 0.00 / 2.50 04/22/2004 Untangling the Web, This was a telecourse offered by UTHSCSA through PBS on making online teaching and learning accessible. 0.00 / 1.50 11/19/2003 Technology Takes Learning Beyond the Classroom, This was a teleconference offered by UTHSCSA through PBS. 0.00 / 1.00 09/18/2003 Building and Using Cool Interactive Learning Objects, This was an online course offered through WebCT, taught by web developers from Utah State University. 0.00 / 3.00 09/17/2003 Copyright Law for Educators and Researchers, This course, offered by the ERD, provided 3 hours of instruction in copyright law, especially regarding intellectual property and web courses. 0.00 / 3.00 07/09/2002 PT Faculty Retreat On Teaching and Exam Writing 0.00 / 8.00 07/09/2002 PT Faculty Retreat On Web Course Development 0.00 / 4.00 01/01/2002 UTHSCSA Web Development Workshop 0.00 / 8.00 01/09/2001 UT Telecampus Workshop on Distance Learning 0.00 / 8.00 01/03/2001 WebCT Workshop On Web Course Development, Course offered through ERD. 0.00 / 8.00 06/01/1998 Summer Teaching-For-Learning Institute, Three day course offered at UTSA with a variety of outside speakers. 0.00 / 24.00

Teaching: (past 3 years)

Date Course Name Level Role

02/2004 Anatomy II for Physical Therapy Graduate Sole Teacher

This is a 1.5 semester hour cadaver dissection class for third year physical therapy students. Notes, syllabi, internet links, animations and medical illustration are provided on a website. This course consists of 60 contact hours of dissection lab. I received a student evaluation of 4.95/5.00 for this course. 01/2004 Anatomy I for Physical Therapy Graduate Sole Teacher

This is a 4.5 semester hour human gross anatomy course offered to first year physical therapy students. It involves four hours of lecture/week, and two hours of prosection demonstration lab/week. All of the notes and course material are on an interactive website. I received a student evaluation of 4.95/5.00 for this course. 01/2004 Pharmacology for Pt's Graduate Sole Teacher

This is a one semester hour web-based course with weekly reading assignments and quizzes, all done online. I designed and administered all aspects of this virtual course. I received a student evaluation of 4.21/5.00 for this course. 01/2004 Neuroscience II Graduate Sole Teacher

This is a 3 semester hour basic science course offered to first year physical therapy students. Class has 40 hours of lecture and 16 hours of lab. It is offered as a web-assisted course, designed around case-based learning. I received a student evaluation of 4.93/5.00 for this course. 01/2004 Teaching Practicum II Graduate Co-Teacher

For this course I supervised 6 graduate teaching assistants in human gross anatomy lab.

I have been in a variety of educational settings over the course of my twenty plus years in academia, ranging from community college to medical residency programs. I have developed my teaching skills in each of these settings to be appropriate to each audience. I am committed to excellence in the classroom, as well as to forming positive and lasting relationships with students. In an attempt to improve the learning environment for my students, I have embraced the use of technology in the classroom. I have continually fostered collaborative relationships within the academic community to remain involved in scientific research. I have strived to serve my colleagues and my institution by my representation on committees and by performing community service.

Research: Huntington‘s disease I have been doing research in the cellular mechanisms of Huntington‘s disease since 1997. I am especially interested in the development of animal models of this disease. I am interested in the ultrastructural changes in these animal models and analyze this using electron microscopy.

Neuroimaging Upon coming to UTHSCSA (2001)I have been working with investigators at the Research Imaging Center to analyze human brain MRIs. I am involved in several ongoing projects.

Web Course Development I have used WebCT to develop courses since 1997. I have offered several different courses using this platform, and have been an invited consultant to several groups on this topic.

Selected Publications Brewer P, Beck A, Hudepohl, N, Olney, C, Demps, E, Kanak, L, Morgan, A. Web-supported neuroscience course for physical therapy students. Journal of Physical Therapy Education (Submitted) 2004 Jan

Kochunov P, Lancaster JL, Thompson P, Toga AW, Brewer PA, Hardies LJ, Fox PT. An optimized individual target brain in the Talairach coordinate system. NeuroImage 2002 Jan;17(2):922-927.

Brewer PA, Lynch K. Stimulation-associated changes in frog neuromuscular junctions. A quantitative ultrastructural comparison of rapid-frozen and chemically fixed nerve terminals. Neuroscience 1986 Mar;17(3):881-895.

Carpenter MB, SC Carleton, JT Keller, P Conte (Brewer). Connections of the subthalamic nucleus in the monkey. Brain Res 1981 Nov;224(1):1-29.