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Dr. Patricia Hurn has served as
Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the
Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative
Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University
(OHSU) since 2003. She holds joint appointments in
the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology and
the Department of Neurology. She is also Director
of the OHSU Research Center for Gender-Based
Medicine and Associate Dean for Faculty Development
and Faculty Affairs in the School of Medicine.
Dr. Hurn is recognized internationally as an expert
in cerebrovascular physiology and gender biology.
She is currently investigating gender differences in
experimental stroke outcomes and is working to
uncover the mechanisms by which estrogen,
progesterone and other gonadal steroids provide
neuroprotection against ischemia/reperfusion injury
in adult female animals. She is a Fellow of the
American Heart Association, the American College of
Critical Care Medicine and the American
Physiological Society. She also sits on the
Editorial Board for the Journal of Cerebral Blood
Flow Metabolism and is Assistant Editor for
Basic Science for the journal Stroke.
Dr. Hurn holds the Bachelor of Science in Nursing
from the University of Florida and the Master of
Science in Nursing from the University of
Washington. She served for several years as a
trauma and critical care nurse before pursuing the
Ph.D. in Physiology which she earned in 1990 from
The Johns Hopkins University. She completed
post-doctoral studies in biomedical enginee ring at
Johns Hopkins where she launched her academic
career. By 2002, Dr. Hurn had been promoted to
Professor and was Director of the Core Molecular
Laboratories in the Department of Anesthesiology and
Critical Care Medicine at The Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine. |
