Mary Dahmer, PhD 

Titles
Investigator, Children's Research Institute; associate professor, Medical College of Wisconsin.

Division
Critical Care, Genetics

Research interests
Genetic diseases/genomics, respiratory diseases

Study interests
Apoptosis, inflammation, lung injury, polymorphisms.

Education
Doctorate, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1983.

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

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. 2004; 32:1115-1119.
• Dahmer MK. Caspase-2, -3 and -7 are Involved in Thapsigargin Induced Apoptosis of SH-SY5Y Neuroblastoma Cells. Journal of Neuroscience Research. 2005; 80:576-583.
• Dahmer MK, Randolph A, Vitali S, Quasney MW. Genetic Polymorphisms and Sepsis. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 2005; 6:S61-S73.
• 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. 2006; 7:8-15.
• 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, fourth edition. Eds. David Nichols, Hector Wong, in press.

Grants

• Genetic Polymorphisms in Pediatric Lung Injury, National Institutes of Health, co-principal investigator.

Contact
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
PO Box 1997
MS 681
Milwaukee, WI 53201-1997
Phone: (414) 266-3688
Fax: (414) 266-3563
E-mail: mdahmer@mcw.edu