Aimee Bernard, PhD

Professional Titles

• Assistant Director, CU Human Immunology and Immunotherapy Initiative
• Assistant Professor, CU Department of Immunology and Microbiology

Publications

• Raising Environmental Awareness for Community Health (REACH): The Implementation and Evaluation of an Environmental Science Outreach Program for Elementary Students. Connected Science Learning. doi.org/10.1080/24758779.2025.2588485
• Exploring Careers in Healthcare & Onward (ECHO): A Community Outreach Program to Promote Healthcare Career Interest in K-8 Students Surrounding the CU Anschutz Medical Campus. International Journal of Medical Students.
• Editorial: Empowering Individuals: promoting health literacy through curriculum and science communication. Front. Public Health 13:1632938.
• The Dirt on Hygiene: From Microbe to Modern Medicine. Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health, 39(1), 88–96.
• Exploring Careers in Healthcare and Onward (ECHO) Community Outreach Science Program Curriculum. Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning Online and Teaching (MERLOT) Digital Collections.
• Exploring Careers in Healthcare and Onward (ECHO) Community Outreach Science Program Curriculum. University of Colorado Anschutz medical campus Strauss Health Sciences and Auraria Libraries Shared Repository Digital Collections.
• How Does Your Immune System Stay Balanced? A Nobel Prize Winning Answer. The Conversation.
• Nutrition advice is rife with misinformation – a medical education specialist explains how to tell valid information from pseudoscience. The Conversation.
• Ronald N. Germain, Eliezer M. Van Allen, Gosia Trynka, John S. Tsang, Dominic Grün, Ashley L. Kiemen, Yigong Shi, Aimee Pugh Bernard · Garry P. Nolan. AI and Immunology. Immunity Voices. 2024 06 11; 57(6):1177-1181.
• Aimee Pugh Bernard. December 2023. AAI Education Committee Highlight: Teaching Tools. The Creation and Use of Analogies as an Effective Tool for Teaching Immunology Concepts. American Association of Immunologists (AAI) Newsletter.
• Aimee Pugh Bernard. November 20. Immune health is all about balance – an immunologist explains why both too strong and too weak an immune response can lead to illness. The Conversation.
• Aimee Pugh Bernard. 2023. Think Like a Scientist (TLaS) Community Outreach Science Program Curriculum. University of Colorado Anschutz medical campus Strauss Health Sciences and Auraria Libraries Shared Repository Digital Collections.
• Erin Peterson with Zachary Borus, Angela Branche, Toni Eyssallenne, Lynne Maquat, David Nash, Aimee Pugh-Bernard, and Eric Topol. Summer 2023. Preventing the Next Pandemic. Better Next Time. Rochester Review 85(3):22-29
• Toni Eyssellanne and Aimee Pugh Bernard. July 2023. Making Sense of Science with a Podcast. Futurum Careers.
• Leslie Berg and Aimee Pugh Bernard. May 2023. Investigating Immunity. Uncovering the Mechanisms of the Immune System. Futurum Careers.
• https://www.twincities.com/2022/09/25/aimee-pugh-bernard-an-immunologist-offers-tips-for-assessing-health-info-in-the-wilds-of-the-internet/
• https://tlasprogram.wordpress.com/
• https://www.buzzsprout.com/1912655
• Pugh-Bernard A, Kenyon KL. Mini-review: CREATE-ive use of primary literature in the science classroom. Neurosci Lett. 2021 Jan 18;742:135532. PubMed PMID: 33248160
• Pugh-Bernard A, Kenyon KL. Mini-review: CREATE-ive use of primary literature in the science classroom. Neurosci Lett. 2020 Nov 25;:135532. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 33248160
• Pugh-Bernard A, Nickels S, Melendez J, Shawkat J, Rolison E, Swanson A, Bajaj L, Hyman D, Bakel LA. A Strategy for the Renovation of a Clinical Pathways Program. Pediatr Qual Saf. 2019 May-Jun;4(3):e178. PubMed PMID: 31579877
• Parham The Immune System. ISBN: 978-1-324-10482-7

Professional Memberships

• American Association of Immunologists (AAI), Member
• International Association of Medical Educators, Member
• Immunize Colorado, Member

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