Dr. Brewer is from Michigan and graduated with a BS from Michigan State University in 1975. She is an avid Spartan football and basketball fan! She thinks the Spurs are OK too! (Her favorite Spur is the Coyote.) She earned her Ph.D. in Anatomy from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, MD in 1984. While following her Air Force husband around the world, and raising her two children, Dr. Brewer has held numerous teaching and research appointments, including seven years at UTSA. She joined the Department of Physical Therapy at UTHSCSA full-time in January of 2001. In the first year of the curriculum Dr. Brewer is responsible for teaching Neuroscience I and II. She also teaches the Anatomy I course to the first year students and the Anatomy II course to the third year students. Dr. Brewer is interested in studying several neurological diseases, to include multiple sclerosis and Huntington’s disease. She has published several morphological studies, both at the light and electron microscopic levels, of neuronal changes during development and disease. She is currently involved in several studies at the Research Imaging Center, UTHSCSA, looking at morphological changes in genetic diseases (18q-) and normal brain mapping techniques. Dr. Brewer holds joint appointments in both the Department of Cellular and Structural Biology as well as the Department of Radiological Sciences. She is also preparing a teaching text for use in histology laboratory courses. Dr. Brewer is very interested in distance learning and website use and has developed a website to support her neuroscience courses.
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