PeopleFacultyValentina L. Brashers

Valentina L. Brashers
M.D. Associate Professor of Nursing

Regions of Interest:
South Africa

Research:

After completing her training in internal medicine and pulmonary disease, Dr. Brashers practiced in a rural general medical clinic and in the University of Virginia emergency department. She has been teaching pathophysiology, immunology, cardiopulmonary disease, physical diagnosis, pulmonary assessment, and chest x-ray interpretation to undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate medical and nursing students and residents since 1988. She has written her own textbook in pathophysiology which is currently in its second edition and is published in several languages. She has received the Excellence in Teaching Awards from both the University of Virginia nursing and medical schools, the Harrison Fund Teaching Award for exceptional teaching and leadership, the UVA All University Outstanding Teacher Award, and is a founding member of the UVA School of Medicine Academy of Distinguished Educators. She conducts research in the area of interdisciplinary health care education, and provides workshops and seminars on nurse/physician collaborative practice throughout the state, region and the nation. She is Vice President of Interdisciplinary Practice and a Distinguished Practitioner of Medicine in the National Academies of Practice, the nation’s premier interdisciplinary health organization focused on collaboration in health care practice, education and research. Dr. Brashers is the School of Nursing project coordinator for the Southern Africa and Virginia Networks and Associations (SAVANA) consortium and serves as a faculty sponsor for graduate and undergraduate nursing students pursuing health care research in South Africa.

Selected recent publications:
Brashers, V.L. (2002) Clinical Applications of Pathophysiology: Assessment, Diagnostic Reasoning, and
Management. Second Edition. Mosby, St. Louis

Brashers, V, Rowe, C., Schmitt, M, Suchman, A. (2003) Interprofessional approaches to the prevention of
health care errors: Report Of April 2002 National Meeting. National Academies Of Practice
/Interdisciplinary Health Care Team Conference Journal of Interprofessional Care. Volume 17(2):
193-198.

Brashers, VL. (2003) Alterations of pulmonary function. In Understanding Pathophysiology Third Edition.
Huether & McCance (Eds.) . Mosby, St. Louis.

Brashers, V.L., Curry, CE., Harper, DC., McDaniel, SH., Pawlson, G., Ball, JW. (2001) Interprofessional
health care education: Recommendations of the National Academies of Practice Expert Panel on
Health care in the 21st century. Issues in Interdisciplinary Care, 3(1), 21-31.