Full Name
Kirsten Brown
Position
Vice Chair for Education & Associate Professor
Institution
The George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences
Bio
Dr. Kirsten Brown is an Assistant Professor of Anatomy & Regenerative Biology and has been a faculty member since 2011. She received her PhD from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Health Sciences in 2011, and her MEd from the George Washington University in 2018. Kirsten is the Director of Gross Anatomy, overseeing all of the anatomy-related educational programs for various student populations at the medical school. She teaches in the anatomical sciences, including human gross anatomy and neuroanatomy. Kirsten is medical education researcher and collaborates on numerous projects that involve analyzing student performance and learning in the anatomical sciences. She has published on a variety of anatomy education-focused topics, including several meta-analyses on anatomy pedagogies and on anatomy knowledge retention. Kirsten is a strong advocate for using social media to promoting one’s academic brand and engage with students. She recently gave a webinar, A Primer for Maximizing your Professional and Academic Footprint by Utilizing Social Media, for the American Association of Anatomists (AAA). She also serves as one of the Twitter correspondents for the AAA annual meetings. Her current research interest include the efficacy of social media-based instructional approaches (e.g., Instagram) in medical gross anatomy. Kirsten’s passion for medical education have not gone unnoticed by peers, colleagues, and students, as she is the past recipient of the Distinguished Teacher Award and two Golden Apple Teaching Awards.
Kirsten Brown