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Summary
- 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.
Education & Training
DukeMBA, Business, 2010 - 2012
Indiana University School of MedicineResidency, Neurology, 1988 - 1991- Indiana University School of MedicineInternship, Internal Medicine, 1987 - 1988
- Indiana University School of MedicineClass of 1987
Certifications & Licensure
CA State Medical License 2019 - 2025
NY State Medical License 2022 - 2025
NC State Medical License 2005 - 2023
IN State Medical License 1988 - 2013- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Neurology
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Regional Top Doctor Castle Connolly, 2014
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Inpatient - Core EMR, Epic Systems Corporation, 2012
Clinical Trials
- Studies of the Variable Phenotypic Presentations of Rapid-Onset Dystonia Parkinsonism and Other Movement Disorders Start of enrollment: 2008 Apr 01
- The Dystonia Coalition Natural History and Biospecimen Repository for Isolated Dystonias Start of enrollment: 2011 Jan 01
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- The vital role of natural history studies in rare disease: insights from X-linked dystonia parkinsonism.Ihtsham Haq, Allison Brashear> ;Brain Communications. 2023 Jan 1
- Rapid-onset dystonia-parkinsonism is associated with reduced cerebral blood flow without gray matter changes.Christopher T Whitlow, Kyle M Atcheson, Beverly M Snively, Jared F Cook, Jeongchul Kim, Ihtsham U Haq, Kathleen J Sweadner, Laurie J Ozelius, Allison Brashear> ;Frontiers in Neurology. 2023 Jan 1
- 1 citationsTemperature instability of a mutation at a multidomain junction in Na,K-ATPase isoform ATP1A3 (p.Arg756His) produces a fever-induced neurological syndrome.Elena Arystarkhova, Mads S Toustrup-Jensen, Rikke Holm, Jae-Kyun Ko, Kyung Eun Lee, Polina Feschenko, Laurie J Ozelius, Allison Brashear, Bente Vilsen, Kathleen J Swea...> ;The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2023 Jan 1
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Press Mentions
Dr. Allison Brashear Talks Training and Recruitment Trends at UB Medical SchoolMay 25th, 2023- NIH Awards Major Grant to UB to Boost Newborn Screening AccuracyNovember 5th, 2022
- UB, UBMD Physicians’ Group Launch Long COVID RegistrySeptember 20th, 2022
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