Erica Brownfield, MD, FACP

Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Dr. Erica Brownfield brings years of extensive curriculum development and management, teaching, as well as patient care experience to the School of Medicine. She has served as the primary or co-investigator on nine different grants and has authored numerous research articles, review articles and book chapters. She has presented at multiple national conferences and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Clinician Educator of the Year Award from the Southern Society of General Internal Medicine.

Education

MBA, Emory University, 2020
Residency, Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1999
M.D., Chicago Medical School, 1996
B.S., Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1991

Professional Appointments

Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, University of Georgia School of Medicine, 2024- present
Professor of Medical Education University of Georgia School of Medicine, 2024-present
Professor of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, 2013-2024
Associate Dean for Medical Education, Emory University School of Medicine, 2018- 2024
Assistant Dean for Medical Education, Emory University School of Medicine, 2011-2018
Vice Chair for Education, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, 2009-2014

Awards & Honors

Certificate in Healthcare Innovation, Emory Healthcare, May 2024
Honorary Keynote Speaker, The Chicago Medical School “Faculty and Friends Recognition Ceremony,” November 12, 2020
Modular MBA for Executives Leadership Award, presented by the Emory Goizueta Executive MBA program, 2020
Organization and Management Faculty Award, presented by the Emory Goizueta Executive MBA program, 2020
American Marketing Association Award, presented by the Emory Goizueta Executive MBA program, 2020
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 member
Faculty Council Chair, Emory University, 2011-2012
University Senate President, Emory University, 2011-2012
Fellow, Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine, Drexel University, 2011
Nanette K. Wenger Service Award, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, 2009-2010
Best Clerkship Director, Emory University School of Medicine, 2008
Honored Clinical Professor, Emory University School of Medicine, 2007
Fellow, American College of Physicians, 2005
Clinician Educator of the Year, Southern Society of General Internal Medicine, 2004
Inaugural Fellow, Woodruff Leadership Academy, Emory Healthcare 2003- 2004
Ward Attending Teaching Award, Department of Medicine Internal Medicine Residency Program, Emory University School of Medicine, 2003
Excellence in Teaching in Internal Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, 2002-2003, 2003-2004
Dean’s Teaching Award for Excellence in Teaching, Emory University School of Medicine, 2002-2003, 2007-2008
Runner-Up, Best Lecturer, Primary Care Curriculum, Department of Medicine Internal Medicine Residency Program, Emory University School of Medicine, 2001-2002
Primary Care Clinician Teacher Award, Department of Medicine Internal Medicine Residency Program, Emory University School of Medicine, 2000-2001, 2002-2003
Best Lecturer, Primary Care Curriculum, Department of Medicine Internal Medicine Residency Program, Emory University School of Medicine, 2000-2001
Annette Bernard Outpatient Teaching Award, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, 1999-2000
Alumni Association Scholastic Achievement Award, the Chicago Medical School, 1996
Janet M. Glasgow Memorial Award, the Chicago Medical School, 1996
Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society (inducted as a 3rd-year medical student), the Chicago Medical School, 1995
Honors in Pathology, the Chicago Medical School, 1994
McGraw Hill Book Company Medical Student Award, the Chicago Medical School, 1994
Student Research Award, American Federation for Clinical Research, 1992
Undergraduate Research Award in Biology, the University of California, Los Angeles, 1991

Areas of Expertise

Medical education
Communication of health information to those with low health literacy
Impact of media on medicine

Publications

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
Eley JW, Brownfield E, Stoddard H. Emory University School of Medicine. Acad Med. 2020; 95S132-S135
Hendrick JS, Cottrell S, Stark D, Brownfield E, Stoddard HA, Angle SM, Buckley LA, CLinch CR, Espositi 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. DOI: 10.1007/s40670-019-00694-5
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
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
Stoddard HA, Brownfield ED. Clinician-educators as dual professionals: A contemporary reappraisal. Acad Med 2016;91(7):921-924
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
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
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
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
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
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
Brownfield ED, Abrahamson J, Santen S. Assessment of medical students: can one global question be meaningful. Medical Teacher 2010; 32:938
Brownfield E, Santen S. A short palliative care experience: beginning to learn. Medical Education 2009; 43:1111-1112
Chakkalakal R, Brownfield E, Brownfield ED. “Mentoring-Lite”: An alternative to consider. Medical Education 2009; 43:1087
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
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
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
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, 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
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, 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
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

Brownfield E, Wilmarth J, Chuck C, Drinkwater D, Laks H. Low-dose lovastatin safely lowers cholesterol after cardiac transplantation. Circulation. 1990:82; 281-283

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

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