Erick A. Bourassa-price

Erick A. Bourassa-price

Associate Professor-Education

Department:
SOM-Advanced Biomedical Education

Email:
ebourassaprice@umc.edu

Work Phone:
(601) 815-9059

Education

University of Sint Eustatius School of Medicine, MD, Medicine2014
University of Mississippi, PhD, Pharmacology & Toxicology2008
Wilkes University, BA, Psychology - Biology, Chemistry, and Neuroscience2004

Current Positions

Associate Professor, School of Medicine, Department of Advanced Biomedical Education08/2025 - Present
The University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson, Mississippi 39216

Publications

Journal Article

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): 167-752009
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

State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Medical Cannabis: Interactions with Opioids and Benzodiazepines, Mississippi Association of Nurse Practitioners, Mississippi Baptist Medical Center, Jackson, MS01/2025
Poster Presentation, Synesthetes and Nonsynesthetes Differentially Process Grapheme-Color Information as Measured by Cortical Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS), Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL10/2024
State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Sleep Architecture Changes from Drugs Commonly Used in Insomnia, Mississippi Association of Nurse Practitioners, Gulf Shores, AL07/2024
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, AL07/2024
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, AL07/2023
State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, NMDAA and sigma(1) Receptors: "Novel" Psychopharmacology Targets, Mississippi Association of Nurse Practitioners, Gulf Shores, AL07/2023
State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Medical Cannabis: Drug Interactions, Mississippi Association of Nurse Practitioners, Gulf Shores, AL07/2023
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, MS02/2023
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, CA11/2022
Poster Presentation, Test Anxiety is Associated with Reduced Error- and Feedback-Related Negativity on a Go/No-Go Task, Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA11/2022
State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Test Anxiety Coffee Talk: Neither Anxiety nor a Problem with Testing. Discuss!, MS INBRE & MS EPSCoR, Hattiesburg, MS07/2022
State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Newer Medications Available for the Treatment of Gastrointestinal Disease, Mississippi Association of Nurse Practitioners, Gulf Shores, AL07/2022
State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Incorporating Newer Antibiotics into the Treatment of Community-Acquired Bacterial Pneumonia, Mississippi Association of Nurse Practitioners, Gulf Shores, AL07/2022
Poster Presentation, Test Anxiety is Associated with Changes in All Three Domains of the Attention Task as Measured by Electroencephalography, Society for Neuroscience, Virtual11/2021
Poster Presentation, Test Anxiety is Associated with a Decreased Error-Related Negativity in Tasks Requiring Top-Down and Bottom-Up Attention, Society for Neuroscience, Virtual11/2021
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, IL10/2019
Poster Presentation, Top-Down and Bottom-Up Attentional Processing in Students with Test Anxiety as Measured by Electroencephalography, Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL10/2019
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, LA04/2009
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, CA04/2008
Poster Presentation, Angiotensin receptor binding in rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM) is reduced by destruction of the C1 neurons, Experimental Biology, San Diego, CA04/2008
Poster Presentation, Longitudinal Analysis of AT1 Angiotensin Receptor Binding in the Rat Brainstem, Southeastern Pharmacological Society, Research Triangle Park, NC10/2007
Poster Presentation, In Vitro Receptor Autoradiography of Angiotensin II Type 2 Receptor Gene Transfer in the Rat Heart, Southeastern Pharmacological Society, Augusta, GA10/2004

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, Member2025 - Present
Department of Advanced Biomedical Education : Research Committee, Member2025 - 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 ScienceFall 2025
ID 767, SHRP, Course, Lecturer, Fundamental Histology & Cell BiologyFall 2025
SOM, Medicine, Course, Lab Presenter, VariousAnnual 2025
SOM, Medicine, Clinical/Practicum, Grader, VariousAnnual 2025
SOM, Medicine, Course, Facilitator, VariousAnnual 2025