Erick A. Bourassa-Price
Associate Professor
Department:
SOM-Advanced Biomedical Education
Email:
ebourassaprice@umc.edu
Work Phone:
(601) 815-9059
Education
| University of Sint Eustatius School of Medicine, MD, Medicine | 2014 |
| University of Mississippi, PhD, Pharmacology & Toxicology | 2008 |
| Wilkes University, BA, Psychology - Biology, Chemistry, and Neuroscience | 2004 |
Current Positions
| Associate Professor, School of Medicine, Department of Advanced Biomedical Education | 08/2025 - Present |
| The University of Mississippi Medical Center Jackson, Mississippi 39216 | |
Sponsored Program Funding
| Intramural, Effect of Virtual Dissection Versus Cadaveric Dissection on Attention, Stress, Task Engagement, and Cognitive Load as Measured by Electroencephalography in Anxious and Non-Anxious Medical Students, Institutional Research Sponsored Programs | 08/2026 - 07/2027 |
Publications
Journal Article | |
| Winter KA, Dasinger TM, Bourassa-Price, EA Development and validation of the performance evaluation anxiety task: a computerized task to identify functionally significant test anxiety Frontiers in Psychology. 2026; 17:1819517. | 2026 |
| Bourassa EA, Stedenfeld KA, Sved AF, Speth RC. Selective C1 Lesioning Slightly Decreases Angiotensin II Type I Receptor Expression in the Rat Rostral Ventrolateral Medulla (RVLM). Neurochemical Research. 2015;40(10):2113-20. | 2015 |
| Bourassa EA, Fang X, Li X, Sved AF, Speth RC. AT1 angiotensin II receptor and novel non-AT1, non-AT2 angiotensin II/III binding site in brainstem cardiovascular regulatory centers of the spontaneously hypertensive rat. Brain Res. 2010; 1359:98-106. | 2010 |
| Bourassa EA, Speth RC. Water deprivation increases angiotensin-converting enzyme but not AT(1) receptor expression in brainstem and paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus of the rat. Brain Research. 2010; 1319:83-91. | 2010 |
| Bourassa EA, Sved AF, Speth RC. Anteroposterior distribution of AT(1) angiotensin receptors in caudal brainstem cardiovascular regulatory centers of the rat. Brain Research. 2010; 1306:69-76. | 2010 |
| Bourassa EA, Sved AF, Speth RC Angiotensin modulation of rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM) in cardiovascular regulation Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology. 2009; 302(2): 167-75 | 2009 |
| Grigore D, Ojeda NB, Robertson EB, Dawson AS, Huffman CA, Bourassa EA, Speth RC, Brosnihan KB, Alexander BT. Placental insufficiency results in temporal alterations in the renin angiotensin system in male hypertensive growth restricted offspring. American Journal of Physiology: Regulatory, Integrative, and Comparative Physiology. 2007; 293(2): R804-11. | 2007 |
| Falcon BL, Stewart JM, Bourassa E, Katovich MJ, Walter G, Speth RC, Sumners C, Raizada MK. Angiotensin II type 2 receptor gene transfer elicits cardioprotective effects in an angiotensin II infusion rat model of hypertension. Physiological Genomics. 2004; 19(3):255-61. | 2004 |
Book | |
| Bourassa EA Histology & Cell Biology for the Medical Student (1st Edition) Kindle Direct Publishing, 2020. | |
| Bourassa EA Infectious Diseases: Pharmacology & Therapeutics (1st Edition) Kindle Direct Publishing, 2017. | |
| Bourassa EA Pharmacology for the Medical Student (1st Edition) Kindle Direct Publishing, 2014. | |
| Bourassa EA Pharmacology for the Medical Student (2nd Edition) Kindle Direct Publishing, 2015 | |
Presentations
| Poster Presentation, Coloring Cognition: Evidence from Function Near-Infrared Spectroscopy that Synesthetic Associations Act as Elaborative Rehearsal Mechanisms in Working Memory for Grapheme-Color Synesthetes, Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA | 11/2025 |
| Poster Presentation, Dysregulated Dopaminergic Feedback in Teste Anxiety: Evidence from the Error-Related Negativity and Reward Sensitivity, Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA | 11/2025 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Medical Cannabis: Interactions with Opioids and Benzodiazepines, Mississippi Association of Nurse Practitioners, Mississippi Baptist Medical Center, Jackson, MS | 01/2025 |
| Poster Presentation, Synesthetes and Nonsynesthetes Differentially Process Grapheme-Color Information as Measured by Cortical Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS), Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL | 10/2024 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Sleep Architecture Changes from Drugs Commonly Used in Insomnia, Mississippi Association of Nurse Practitioners, Gulf Shores, AL | 07/2024 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Using Antibiotic Stewardship and Multiplex PCR Technology to Identify & Manage Drug-Resistant Infections, Mississippi Association of Nurse Practitioners, Gulf Shores, AL | 07/2024 |
| Poster Presentation, Test Anxiety Without Bias to Threat: Attentional Control Disruption During Reorientation, Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C. | 11/2023 |
| Poster Presentation, Threat Alters Theta/Beta Ratio During Reorienting of Attention in Test Anxiety, Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C. | 11/2023 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Novel Oral Antineoplastics, Mississippi Association of Nurse Practitioners, Gulf Shores, AL | 07/2023 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, NMDAA and sigma(1) Receptors: "Novel" Psychopharmacology Targets, Mississippi Association of Nurse Practitioners, Gulf Shores, AL | 07/2023 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Medical Cannabis: Drug Interactions, Mississippi Association of Nurse Practitioners, Gulf Shores, AL | 07/2023 |
| Poster Presentation, Can Binaural Beats Cause Widespread Cortical Entrainment in the Theta, Alpha, Beta, and Low-Gamma Frequency Band Ranges?, Mississippi Academy of Sciences, Biloxi, MS | 02/2023 |
| Poster Presentation, Test Anxiety is Associated with Reduced Feedback-Related Negativity, but Increased Error-Related Negativity on a Time Estimation Task, Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA | 11/2022 |
| Poster Presentation, Test Anxiety is Associated with Reduced Error- and Feedback-Related Negativity on a Go/No-Go Task, Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA | 11/2022 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Test Anxiety Coffee Talk: Neither Anxiety nor a Problem with Testing. Discuss!, MS INBRE & MS EPSCoR, Hattiesburg, MS | 07/2022 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Newer Medications Available for the Treatment of Gastrointestinal Disease, Mississippi Association of Nurse Practitioners, Gulf Shores, AL | 07/2022 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Incorporating Newer Antibiotics into the Treatment of Community-Acquired Bacterial Pneumonia, Mississippi Association of Nurse Practitioners, Gulf Shores, AL | 07/2022 |
| Poster Presentation, Test Anxiety is Associated with Changes in All Three Domains of the Attention Task as Measured by Electroencephalography, Society for Neuroscience, Virtual | 11/2021 |
| Poster Presentation, Test Anxiety is Associated with a Decreased Error-Related Negativity in Tasks Requiring Top-Down and Bottom-Up Attention, Society for Neuroscience, Virtual | 11/2021 |
| Poster Presentation, Attentional Hypervigilance to and Attentional Disengagement from Test-Specific Threatening Words in Students with Test Anxiety is Supported by Alterations in α and ϑ Frequency Power Bands in the Frontoparietal Attentional Network, Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL | 10/2019 |
| Poster Presentation, Top-Down and Bottom-Up Attentional Processing in Students with Test Anxiety as Measured by Electroencephalography, Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL | 10/2019 |
| Poster Presentation, Effect of Water Deprivation on ACE Binding and AT1 Angiotensin Receptor Expression in Regions of the Brain that Regulate Hemodynamics, Experimental Biology, New Orleans, LA | 04/2009 |
| Poster Presentation, The Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat (SHR) Displays Reduced non-AT1, non-AT2 Angiotensin Binding Site Density in the Rostral Ventrolateral Medulla (RVLM) in Contrast to Increased AT1 Receptor Binding, Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C. | 11/2008 |
| Poster Presentation, Longitudinal analysis of AT-1 angiotensin receptor binding in the rostral and caudal ventrolateral medulla and nucleus of the solitary tract in the rat brainstem, Experimental Biology, San Diego, CA | 04/2008 |
| Poster Presentation, Angiotensin receptor binding in rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM) is reduced by destruction of the C1 neurons, Experimental Biology, San Diego, CA | 04/2008 |
| Poster Presentation, Longitudinal Analysis of AT1 Angiotensin Receptor Binding in the Rat Brainstem, Southeastern Pharmacological Society, Research Triangle Park, NC | 10/2007 |
| Poster Presentation, In Vitro Receptor Autoradiography of Angiotensin II Type 2 Receptor Gene Transfer in the Rat Heart, Southeastern Pharmacological Society, Augusta, GA | 10/2004 |
Honors, Awards, and Recognition
| Pre-Clinical Professor of the Year (2025-2026), School of Medicine, UMMC | 2026 |
Professional Membership and Service
| Society for Neuroscience, Member | |
| Mississippi Academy of Sciences, Member | |
| American Physiological Society, Member | |
| American Society for Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics, Member | |
| Mississippi Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience, Officer-President |
Committee Service
| Master of Science in Biomedical Sciences: Admissions Committee, Member | 2025 - Present |
| Department of Advanced Biomedical Education : Research Committee, Member | 2025 - Present |
Teaching Experience
| CONJ 612, Medicine, Course, Course Director, Introduction to the Medical Profession (M1) | Annual 2025-2026 |
| SOM 610, Medicine, Lecture, Lecturer, Fundamentals of Biomedical Science | Fall 2025 |
| ID 767, SHRP, Course, Lecturer, Fundamental Histology & Cell Biology | Fall 2025 |
| SOM, Medicine, Course, Lab Presenter, Various | Annual 2025 |
| SOM, Medicine, Clinical/Practicum, Grader, Various | Annual 2025 |
| SOM, Medicine, Course, Facilitator, Various | Annual 2025 |