Elaine Bearer

Elaine L. Bearer is an American brain scientist, neuropathologist, and composer of classical music. Education Bearer received her Bachelor’s of Music from The Manhattan School of Music in Theory, in June 1970. She received the Masters of Art from New York University, where her thesis was entitled Structural Innovation in the String Quartets of Haydn. Prior to studies at The Manhattan School, Bearer was a pupil of Nadia Boulanger, first at the Ecole Americaine des Beaux Arts of the Fontainebleau Schools and continuing in Boulanger’s home on Rue Ballu in Paris. After several years as a tenure-track professor in music at a small liberal arts college in San Francisco, Lone Mountain College, she studied Human Biology at Stanford, was Donald Kennedy’s teaching assistant, worked as a graduate research assistant in Neurobiology with John G. Nicholls and proceeded to be admitted to the combined MD-PhD Medical Scientist Training Program funded by NIH at University of California San Francisco (UCSF) ,where she graduated with the combined degree in a record 6 years. Career After a one-year post-doctoral fellowship with Lelio Orci in Geneva, at the Centre medical universitaire (CMU), Bearer ret