Brandt Wiskur, PhD, MSW

Social Worker Faculty and Subject Matter Expert for the Public Health Workforce Grant

Dr. Wiskur (he/him) is an Associate Professor of Research in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the OU College of Medicine. He is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Additionally, he works as a psychotherapist at OU Health Psychiatry. His teaching responsibilities include instructing neuroscience didactics to psychiatry residents and biopsychosocial determinants of health to social workers. Dr. Wiskur has extensive experience developing methodologies that assess population characteristics across the university and evaluating statistical prediction models for dependent variables such as student enrollment, performance outcomes, and staff retention. He was the Director of Institutional Research for ten years and the Interim Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Faculty Affairs for four years. His institutional role follows years of biomedical research as a neuroscientist and education program management efforts where he designed novel experimental studies, participated in educational program development, and evaluated both results. These efforts have resulted in twenty-five peer-reviewed scientific publications and NIH grant funding. Before his graduate studies, he was a U.S. Army sergeant and has spent approximately two years in a deployed status. He is currently a member of an OUHS cross-departmental research team focusing on the impact of fear and trauma. He also serves as a field instructor for social work students in their practicum, some of whom have trained at CLL. In 2008, he earned his Doctorate in Neuroscience, and in 2017, he earned a master’s degree in social work. Brandt works with the CLL on special projects and participates as a faculty member in CLL-sponsored training events.