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, technology-enhanced learning programs and faculty development. Prior to this position, Dr. Brandt was Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Science, and Director of Curriculum and Faculty Development at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy. In that role she was responsible for assisting faculty to implement innovations in educational practices such as teaching, admissions restructuring, curricular assessment, community-based education, service learning, and non-traditional Doctor of Pharmacy education.

Dr. Brandt holds a 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.

Dr. Brandt has worked in a number of areas of curricular and educational change in pharmacy. From 1996 to 2000, she 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. In 2000, she participated as a United States Public Health Service Primary Care Policy Fellow. This appointment was based upon her work in education to prepare health professions students to work with medically underserved populations. Dr. Brandt is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Council on Pharmaceutical Education, the accreditation agency for pharmacy educational programs. She has been named the 2002 Samuel W. Melendy Memorial Lecturer in the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy.

In addition to her role as coauthor of Module 1 (Developing a Personal Working Philosophy of Teaching and Learning), and primary author of Module 3 (Improving Outcomes through the Use of Active Learning Strategies), Dr. Brandt was instrumental in the conceptual design and refinement of the Education Scholar curriculum. She has also worked with and/or given presentations to the following organizations:

American Association of Dental Schools
American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
American Association of Colleges of Nursing
American Medical Student Association
Association of Academic Health Centers
Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry
National Health Service Corps and the Office of Pharmacy Affairs, Bureau of Primary Health Care, HRSA
University of Southern Indiana Undergraduate Curriculum

• Annual American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Institute for Pedagogical and Curriculum Change

• 1998 Award Winner, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Innovations in Teaching Award: Problem-Based Learning for First Year Students, with Peggy Piascik, Ph.D., Markie Clements, M.F.A., American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, $1,200
• Honorable mention, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Innovationsin Teaching Award, Microsituations for Complex Problem-Solving, with William C. Lubawy, Ph.D.
• Honorable mention, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy innovations in Teaching Award, Early Pharmacy Practice Experience, with Betsy DeWitt, PharmD. and Ann Amerson, PharmD.

Lubawy WC, Brandt BF. Microsituations teaching as an active-learning tool to teach endocrine pharmacology and problem-solving skills. Am J Pharm Educ 1998;62:1-17.

Brandt BF, Clements MM, Piascik P. Learning to 'Think Like a Pharmacist': Problem-Solving Activities for First-Year Pharmacy Students. Am J Pharm Educ 1998;62:450-45

Brandt BF. Interdisciplinary health professions service learning: a view from the grassroots. Journal of Outreach and Public Service 1998 June;3(1):80-85.

Harper ML, Brandt BF. An educational design to teach drug information across the curriculum. Am J Pharm Educ 1997;61:296-302.

Brandt BF. Cognitive learning theory and continuing health professions education. Journal of Continuing Health Professions Education 1996;16(4):197-202.

Bennett NL, LeGrand (Brandt) BF. Developing continuing professional education programs. Champaign (IL): University of Illinois Office of Continuing Education and Public Service Guide Series; 1991.