Brian Faux MD

Education

Undergraduate: University of Pittsburgh, Honors Degree Molecular Biology
Medical School: MCP Hahnemann (Drexel) University School of Medicine
Primary Residency: Pediatrics, David Grant Medical Center in Affliation with the University of California, Davis School of Medicine
Secondary Residency: Child Neurology, Stanford University Medical Center

Biography

Brian M. Faux MD, FAAP is a Lt Colonel in the US Air Force with a Bachelor of Science degree in Molecular Biology with Honors from the University of Pittsburgh and a medical degree from Drexel University in Philadelphia. He completed a residency in Pediatrics at David Grant Medical Center in affiliation with the University of California Davis and a second residency in Child Neurology at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. He has served military families across the world being primarily centered in San Antonio, TX. His career includes roles from clinic chief, teaching faculty, deployment operations, and is currently the program director for the San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium (SAUSHEC) Pediatric Residency and the SAUSHEC Professionalism Subcommittee Chairperson. He is an advocate for children with special needs as a child neurologist and runs the Neuromuscular Clinic and Child Neurology Division within the San Antonio Military Health System. As an executive member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Uniformed Services he has contributed to multiple projects including design of the national meeting platforms. He has served as the consultant to the US Air Force surgeon general for child neurology and as the American Academy of Pediatrics stakeholder expert in the care of children with cerebral palsy for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Representative publications, projects, and/or deployments

SAUSHEC GMEC Professionalism Subcommittee Chair

Program Director, Pediatric Residency – SAUSHEC

Course Director, Faculty Development – SAUSHEC

Chief, Pediatric Neuromuscular (Spasticity) Clinic at SAMMC

Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Texas Health at San Antonio

American Academy of Pediatrics, Section on Uniformed Services (SOUS) Platform Planning Committee, Executive Member

Consultant to the Air Force Surgeon General for Child Neurology

NATO EMEDS Humanitarian Relief Deployment, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Operation Unified Response

Consultant to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Bibliography

Butler, Shauna; Percival, Candace; Faux, Brian, SAUSHEC Pediatric Residency Quality Improvement & Patient Safety (QIPS) Curriculum Oral & Poster presentation at Association of Pediatric Program Directors, April 2017

Bernardo, E., Hamlin, D., Faux, BM., Rohena, L., “De novo and inherited mutations in the X-linked gene CLCN4 are associated with syndromic intellectual disability and behavior and seizure disorders in males and female.” Molecular Psychiatry, 2016; Aug 2016, PMID: 27550844

Patel, M., Hsieh DT., Faux, BM., “Increased Intracranial Pressure in a Boy with Gorham-Stout Disease”, Case Reports Neuro, Apr 2016; 8:66-71, PMID: 27194986

Ormond A, Faux BM. “Clinical Effectiveness and Changes in Care Utilization Derived from a Military Adolescent Multi-disciplinary Headache Clinic”, San Antonio Military Health System & Universities Research Forum (SURF) (Abstract & Poster Presentation), May 2016

Faux BM, et al. “Visual Diagnosis: Newborn with a Facial Birthmark”, Pediatrics in Review, 36(9), e30-4. September 2015. PMID: 26330481

Maranich A, Faux, BM. “Beyond patient care: implementation of a transition to practice rotation for graduating pediatric residents”, Association of Pediatric Program Directors (APPD) Spring Meeting, Orlando Florida, (Abstract & Poster Presentation), April 2015

American Academy of Pediatrics, Reviewer/Editor: Textbook of Pediatric Care, Chapter: “Care of the Military Dependent Child”, 2014.

Faux BM, et al, “Disaster relief in Haiti: a perspective from the neurologists on the USNS COMFORT” Lancet Neurology, 9: 461-462 May 2010 PMID: 20398854