Introduction:
Barbara F. Brandt, Ph.D. is currently Assistant Vice President for Education, the University of Minnesota Academic Health Center and Professor, Pharmaceutical Care and Health Systems, University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy.  Her current responsibilities include developing and implementing academic health center-wide interdisciplinary education, community-based education and technology-enhanced learning programs in allied health, dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, public health and veterinary medicine.  She is the Principal Investigator for a newly-awarded Area Health Education Center grant.

Prior to that time, she was Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Science and Director, Curriculum and Faculty Development at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy.  She co-chaired the Curriculum Committee charged with implementing the entry-level Doctor of Pharmacy degree. 

Dr. Brandt holds Master of Education and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Adult and Continuing Education with a specialty in continuing professional education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  She has extensive teaching and administrative experience in continuing education for health professionals, most recently as Associate Director of Continuing Pharmacy Education in the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy.  Dr. Brandt has written many articles and has given numerous national presentations in the area of continuing professional education and curricular development.

In 2000, she participated as a United States Public Health Service Primary Care Policy Fellow.  She also was appointed to serve a 2000-2006 term on the Board of Directors of the American Council on Pharmaceutical Education.  Dr. Brandt serves as a member of the Advisory Council to the Center for Interdisciplinary, Community-Based Learning of the Association of Academic Health Centers.

Dr. Brandt has worked in a number of areas of curricular and educational change in pharmacy.  Since 1996, she has served as a facilitator for the annual American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Institute on Pedagogical and Curricular Change, a program in which over seventy colleges of pharmacy have participated.  Additionally, she is designing a national interdisciplinary Teaching Excellence Development Program co-sponsored by eight professional associations representing health professions schools.

Dr. Brandt has also worked with and/or given presentations to such organizations as the American Medical Student Association; the National Health Service Corps and the Office of Pharmacy Affairs, Bureau of Primary Health Care, Health Resources and Services Administration; the American Association of Dental Schools; the American Association of Colleges of Nursing; the American Association of Clinicians for the Underserved; the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy; the Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts; Center for Health Professions, University of California, San Francisco; the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy; Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry; Samford University School of Pharmacy; University of Southern Indiana Undergraduate Curriculum; the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy and Idaho State University School of Pharmacy.

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