Brett Szymik, PhD
Associate Professor of Medical Education in Anatomy
Education
PhD, Arizona State University, 2008
BS, University of Connecticut, 2002
Awards & Honors
2019 Educator of the Year Award, from the AU/UGA Medical Partnership Class of 2022
2018 MCG Exemplary Teaching Award
2018 Educator of the Year Award, from the AU/UGA Medical Partnership Class of 2021
2017 MCG Exemplary Teaching Award
2016 MCG Exemplary Teaching Award
2015 MCG Exemplary Teaching Award
2015 Finalist, International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) Outstanding Presentation Award, IAMSE 2015 Annual Meeting.
2015 Caught in the Act of Great Teaching Award. AU Office of Faculty Development and Teaching Excellence.
Areas of Expertise
Clinical Gross Anatomy
Anatomical Imaging
Ultrasound
Community and Population Health
Clinical Anatomy Teaching Skills Elective
Anatomy Education
Invertebrate Biomechanics
Publications
Szymik, Brett G and Richard A Satterlie. 2017. Circulation of hemocoelic fluid during slow and fast swimming in the pteropod mollusc, Clione limacina. Invertebrate Biology. 136(3): 290–300. doi: 10.1111/ivb.12182
Szymik, Brett G and Jennifer M. Stowe. 2015. Musculoskeletal Biomechanics. MedEdPORTAL Publications. Available from: www.mededportal.org/publication/10324 doi: 10.15766/mep_2374-8265.10324
Szymik, Brett G and Richard A Satterlie. 2011. Changes in wingstroke kinematics associated with an increase in swimming speed in a pteropod mollusk, Clione limacina. Journal of Experimental Biology. 214: 3935–3947. doi: 10.1242/jeb.058461
Kiisa Nishikawa, Andrew A Biewener, Peter Aerts, Anna N Ahn, Hillel J Chiel, Monica A Daley, Thomas L Daniela, Robert J Full, Melina E Hale, Tyson L Hedrick, A Kristopher Lappin, T Richard Nichols, Roger D Quinn, Richard A Satterlie, and Brett G Szymik. 2007. Neuromechanics: an integrative approach for understanding motor control. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 47(1): 16–54. doi: 10.1093/icb/icm024