November 15, 2007
Debra Schwinn honored for research excellence
Debra Schwinn, UW professor and chair of anesthesiology, has been awarded the American Society of Anesthesiologists Award for Excellence in Research for her outstanding research advancing the science of anesthesiology.
Schwinn joined the UW faculty earlier this year from Duke University Medical Center, where she established and led programs in molecular pharmacology, cardiovascular genomics, and perioperative genomics. One of her research specialties, perioperative genomics, involves the study of how a patient’s genetic makeup could affect their response to surgery.
Schwinn’s work focuses on viewing the operating room as a physiology laboratory, and on gaining insight into acute and chronic stress on a patient during the period around an operation.
Schwinn completed her undergraduate education at the College of Wooster, in Ohio, and then earned her medical degree at Stanford University School of Medicine in California. She completed her internal medicine internship and an anesthesiology fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. Schwinn has also completed a clinical fellowship in cardiac anesthesiology and a research fellowship in pharmacology at Duke, as well as training in functional genomics/genetics at the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Md.
