Faculty
In 2007, Brooks Pond became one of the inaugural faculty at the East Tennessee State University Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy. Brooks received her Ph.D. in Pharmacology from Duke University, where she worked with Rochelle Schwartz-Bloom and George Augustine. After graduation, Brooks completed a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship in Developmental Neurobiology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital under the mentorship of Richard Smeyne. At ETSU, Brooks enjoys working with both graduate students and pharmacy students in the laboratory, where she seeks to better understand the consequences of psychostimulant use on the brain. Although her expertise is in the field of neuropharmacology, Brooks teaches Physiology, Immunology, and Pharmacology within the PharmD curriculum. She has been recognized at the college for her research, service, and teaching and received the University’s Distinguished Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2020.
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