Mary Dahmer, PhD 

Critical Care

Title(s): Associate professor, Medical College of Wisconsin.

Education: PhD, University of Michigan, 1983.

Honors: Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Tennessee College of Medicine, 2006.

Research interests: Lung injury, polymorphisms, inflammation and apoptosis.

Representative publications:

• Quasney MW, Waterer, GW, Dahmer MK, Kron GK, Zhang Q, Kessler LA, Wunderink RG. Association Between Surfactant Protein B Polymorphism and the Risk of Respiratory Failure in Adults with Community Acquired Pneumonia. Critical Care Medicine, 32, 1115-1119, 2004.
• Dahmer MK. Caspase-2, -3 and -7 are Involved in Thapsigargin Induced Apoptosis of SH-SY5Y Neuroblastoma Cells. Journal of Neuroscience Research, 80, 576-583, 2005.
• Dahmer MK, Randolph A, Vitali S, Quasney MW. Genetic polymorphisms and Sepsis. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 6, S61-S73, 2005.
• Elbahlawan L, Binaei S, Christensen ML, Zhang Q, Quasney MW, Dahmer MK. b₂-Adrenergic Receptor Polymorphisms in African American Children with Status Asthmaticus. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 7:8-15, 2006.
• Dahmer MK, Quasney MW. Gene Polymorphisms in Critical Care and Illness. In Pediatric Critical Care Medicine: Basic Science and Clinical Evidence, (D. Wheeler, T. Shanley and H. Wong, eds.) Springer, in press.
• Dahmer MK, Quasney MW. Genomic Medicine. In Rogers Textbook of Pediatric Intensive Care, 4th ed., eds. David Nichols, Hector Wong, in press.

Current grants: 

• Genetic Polymorphisms in Pediatric Lung Injury. NIH, co-principal investigator.

Contact information: PO Box 1997, MS 681, Milwaukee, WI 53226. Phone: (414) 266-3688. Fax: (414) 266-3563. E-mail: mdahmer@mcw.edu.