Erica Brownfield, MD
Erica Brownfield, MD
Erica Brownfield, MD
Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Professor of Medical Education in Medicine
Winnie Davis Hall, 110
108 Spear Road
Athens, GA 30602
Education
MBA from Emory University Goizueta Business School
MD from Chicago Medical School
BS from University of California
Honors / Awards / Achievements
· Undergraduate Research Award in Biology, the University of California, Los Angeles, 1991
· Student Research Award, American Federation for Clinical Research, 1992
· McGraw Hill Book Company Medical Student Award, the Chicago Medical School, 1994
· Honors in Pathology, the Chicago Medical School, 1994
· Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society (inducted as a 3rd year medical student), the Chicago Medical School, 1995
· Janet M. Glasgow Memorial Award, the Chicago Medical School, 1996
· Alumni Association Scholastic Achievement Award, the Chicago Medical School, 1996
· Annette Bernard Outpatient Teaching Award, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, 1999 – 2000
· Best Lecturer, Primary Care Curriculum, Department of Medicine Internal Medicine Residency Program, Emory University School of Medicine, 2000 – 2001
· Primary Care Clinician Teacher Award, Department of Medicine Internal Medicine Residency Program, Emory University School of Medicine, 2000 – 2001, 2002 – 2003
· Runner-Up, Best Lecturer, Primary Care Curriculum, Department of Medicine Internal Medicine Residency Program, Emory University School of Medicine, 2001 – 2002
· Dean’s Teaching Award for Excellence in Teaching, Emory University School of Medicine, 2002 – 2003, 2007 – 2008
· Excellence in Teaching in Internal Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, 2002 – 2003, 2003 – 2004
· Ward Attending Teaching Award, Department of Medicine Internal Medicine Residency Program, Emory University School of Medicine, 2003
· Clinician Educator of the Year, Southern Society of General Internal Medicine, 2004
· Fellow, American College of Physicians, 2005
· Honored Clinical Professor, Emory University School of Medicine, 2007
· Best Clerkship Director, Emory University School of Medicine, 2008
· Nanette K. Wenger Service Award, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, 2009 – 2010
· Distinguished Physician, Department of Medicine Clinical Distinctions Program, Emory University School of Medicine, 2017 – designed to recognize and award exceptional clinical care provided by faculty members
· American Marketing Association Award, presented by the Emory Goizueta Executive MBA program, 2020
· Organization and Management Faculty Award, presented by the Emory Goizueta Executive MBA program, 2020
· Modular MBA for Executives Leadership Award, presented by the Emory Goizueta Executive MBA program, 2020
· Honorary Keynote Speaker, The Chicago Medical School “Faculty and Friends Recognition Ceremony”, November 12, 2020
Selected Publications
· Kobashigawa J, Murphy F, Stevenson L, Moriguchi J, Kawata N, Kamjoo P,
· Brownfield E, Wilmarth J, Chuck C, Drinkwater D, Laks H. Low-dose
lovastatin safely lowers cholesterol after cardiac transplantation. Circulation. 1990:82; 281-283
· Chelimsky-Fallick C, Middlekauff HR, Stevenson WG, Kobashigawa J, Saxon LA, Moriguchi J, Brownfield ED, Hamilton MA, Drinkwater D, Laks H, Stevenson LW. Amiodarone therapy does not compromise subsequent heart transplantation. J of the American College of Cardiology. 1992:20: 1556-1561
· Kobashigawa JA, Stevenson LW, Brownfield ED, Moriguchi JD, Kawata N,Fandrich R, Drinkwater DC, Laks H. Initial success of steroid weaning late after heart transplantation. J of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 1992: 11:428-430
· Kobashigawa JA, Stevenson LW, Brownfield E, Moriguchi JD, Kawata N, Hamilton M, Minkley R, Drinkwater D, Laks H. Does short-course induction with OKT3 improve outcome after heart transplantation? A randomized trial. J of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 1993:12; 205-208
· Kobashigawa JA, Stevenson LW, Moriguchi JD, Kawata N, Brownfield E, Drinkwater DC, Laks H. Is intravenous glucocorticoid therapy better than an oral regimen for asymptomatic cardiac rejection? A randomized trial. J of the American College of Cardiology. 1993:21; 1142-1144
· Chan SY, Kobashigawa J, Stevenson LW, Brownfield E, Brunken RC, Schelbert HR. Myocardial blood flow at rest and during pharmacological vasodilation in cardiac transplants during and after successful treatment of rejection. Circulation. 1994:90; 204-211
· Kobashigawa JA, Stevenson LW, Brownfield ED, Gleeson MP, Moriguchi JD, Kawata N, Minkley R, Drinkwater DC, Laks H. Corticosteroid weaning late after heart transplantation: relation to HLA-DR mismatching and long-term metabolic benefits. J of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 1995:14; 963-967
· Antman K, Abraido-Lanza AF, Blum D, Brownfield E, et al. Reducing disparities in breast cancer survival: a Columbia University and Avon Breast Cancer Research and Care Network Symposium. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment 2002:75; 269-280
· Brownfield E, Bernhardt J, Phan J, Williams M, Parker R. Direct-to-Consumer Drug Advertisements on Network Television: An Exploration of Quantity, Frequency and Placement. J of Health Communication 2004:9:491-7
· Chakkalakal R, Brownfield E, Brownfield ED. “Mentoring-Lite”: An alternative to consider. Medical Education 2009; 43:1087
· Brownfield E, Santen S. A short palliative care experience: beginning to learn. Medical Education 2009; 43:1111-1112
· Brownfield ED, Abrahamson J, Santen S. Assessment of medical students: can one global question be meaningful. Medical Teacher 2010; 32:938
· Brownfield E, Manaloto, Liu X, Atkinson K, Bernstein L, Schneider J, Schulman D, Ziegler T, Zreloff J. Reviving physical examination skills in teaching faculty. Teaching and Learning in Medicine 2011; 23:3, 305-6
· Higgins S, Bernstein L, Manning K, Schneider J, Kho A, Brownfield E, Branch W. Through the Looking Glass: How Reflective Learning Influences the Development of Young Faculty Members. Teaching and Learning in Medicine 2011; 23:3,238-243
· Miriam Fischer, Robin Hemphill, Eva Rimler, Stephanie Marshall, Erica Brownfield, Philip Shayne, Lorenzo Difrancesco, Sally Santen. Patient Communication During Handovers Between Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine Residents. Journal of Graduate Medical Education 2012; December: 533-537.
· Brownfield E, Clyburn B, Santen S, Heudebert G, Hemmer P. The Activities and Responsibilities of the Vice Chair for Education in U.S. and Canadian Departments of Medicine. Acad Medicine 2012; 87:8
· Santen SA, Seidelman J, Miller C, Brownfield E, Houchens N, Sisson T, Lypson M. Milestones for Internal Medicine Sub-Interns. The American Journal of Medicine 2015; 128: 790-8.
· Stoddard H, Brownfield ED, Churchward G, Eley JW. An “Interwoven” Curriculum Committee Structure to Facilitate Oversight and Sustain Innovation. Acad Med 2016 Jan;91(1):48-53.
· Stoddard HA, Brownfield ED. Clinician-educators as dual professionals: A contemporary reappraisal. Acad Med 2016;91(7):921-924.
· Stoddard H, Brownfield E. Creation and implementation of a taxonomy for educational activities: a common vocabulary to guide curriculum mapping. Acad Med 2018 published ahead of print, February 22, 2018; Acad Med 2018; 93:10.
· Maria Aaron, Philip Shayne, Erica Brownfield, Nathan O. Spell III, Jaffar Khan, and Ulemu Luhanga (2018) Using the CLER Pathways to Excellence to Evaluate the Learning Environments at a Multi-Site Institution. Journal of Graduate Medical Education; December 2018, Vol. 10, No. 6, pp. 683-687.
· Hedrick JS, Cottrell S, Stark D, Brownfield E, Stoddard HA, Angle SM, Buckley LA, Clinch CR, Esposito K, Krane NK, Park V, Teal CR, Ferrari ND. A Review of Continuous Quality Improvement Processes at Ten Medical Schools. Medical Science Educator. Published online: 17 January 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-019-00694-5.
· Eley JW, Brownfield E, Stoddard H. Emory University School of Medicine. Acad Med. 2020;95:S132-S135.
· Hugh A. Stoddard & Erica D. Brownfield. Culture transformation by stealth: Leveraging incremental change to revamp the curriculum, Medical Teacher, 2020 DOI: 10.1080/0142159X.2020.1805421
Scholarship & Research
· Medical education
· Communication of health information to those with low health literacy
· Impact of media on medicine