Dean, UC Davis School of Medicine
Allison Brashear, M.D., M.B.A., is an internationally known neurologist and researcher in movement disorders, and has served as dean of the UC Davis School of Medicine since July 2019. She oversees one
of the nation’s top research, academic and medical training institutions, with more than 3,100 faculty and staff, 460 students, and 818 trainees in graduate medical education. She also oversees 25
departments and 15 centers.
UC Davis School of Medicine ranked No. 4 in diversity, No. 9 in family medicine and No. 11 in primary care training in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report survey of America’s top medical schools. The school is also among the nation’s leaders in academic research with more than $276 million in research funding.
Before joining UC Davis, Brashear was professor and Walter C. Teagle Endowed Chair of Neurology for 14 years in the Department of Neurology at Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In this role, she led a team whose research and clinical innovation led to new models of neurological care.
Brashear is an international expert in ATP1A3-related diseases, a spectrum of rare neurologic disorders. She has continuously been funded by the National Institutes of Health since 2008 and is the principal investigator for Clinical Genetic and Cellular Consequences of Mutations in ATP1A3. Brashear also received NIH funding to support the 7th International ATP1A3 disease symposium in 2018. Prior to joining UC Davis, Brashear was the co-principal investigator on the NIH-funded NeuroNext. Brashear
has served as the principal investigator on more than 50 clinical trials in cervical dystonia and spasticity, leading to three FDA-approved medications. Brashear’s work has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Neuron, Lancet Neurology, Neurology, and Movement Disorders.
She also holds an M.B.A. focused on health-sector management and has expertise in health policy, hospital-clinical integration, academics, and research. Brashear has been a lifelong champion of inclusion and patient-centered care and works actively to help advance women in leadership across academic medicine.
Brashear was an honor scholar and earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry at DePauw University in Indiana (1983) and earned her medical degree at the Indiana University School of Medicine (1987), completing her neurology residency there in 1991. She remained at Indiana as a professor of Neurology until 2005 when she was appointed the Chair of Neurology at Wake Forest.
Brashear completed the Harvard School of Public Health Leadership program for Physicians in 2004 and earned her M.B.A. from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University in 2012. She was named an Association of American Medical Colleges Council of Deans Fellow in 2014. She completed the Executive Leadership Academic Medicine program in 2007.
Brashear was appointed as a trustee to the McKnight Brain Research Foundation in 2020. She also serves as a board member on the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and 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.
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Upcoming Schedule:
6/30/21 - Guoping Feng
7/7/21 - Tracy Batchelor
7/14/2021- Tracey Cho
7/21/2021 - Susanna Mierau
7/28/2021 - Martin Hemberg
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