Judith L. Swain , MD

Director

Singapore Institute for Clinical Science
Singapore,

Judith L. Swain, M.D., is the founding Executive Director of the "Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences" of Biomedical Research Council of Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology, and Research. The program will focus on clinical and translational research and healthcare for patients. In addition, Dr. Swain has accepted the position of Lien Ying Chow Professor of Medicine at the National University of Singapore. Previously, she was founding Director at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine's College of Integrated Life Sciences for a year. Prior to UCSD, Dr. Swain was the the Arthur L. Bloomfield Professor of Medicine and Chair, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine. She has also been elected chair of the Stanford University Advisory Board of the Academic Council. Dr. Swain came to Stanford in December, 1996 from the University of Pennsylvania where she was the Herbert C. Rorer Professor of Medical Sciences, Professor of Genetics, and Director of Cardiovascular Medicine. Dr. Swain received her undergraduate education at UCLA, and her medical education at UC San Diego, before moving to Duke University to complete training in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Medicine. She then joined the faculty at Duke where she became widely known in the field of molecular cardiology, and pioneered the use of transgenic animals to understand the genetic basis of cardiovascular development and disease. She holds an NIH M.E.R.I.T Award for her work on the developmental biology of the cardiovascular system. She was elected President of the American Society of Clinical Investigation in 1995, and that same year was appointed to the Advisory Council of the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute. Dr. Swain has served on the NIH Director's Standing Committee on Clinical Research, on the Advisory Council of the Director of the NIH, as the Chair of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institutes Director's Review Committee, and as a member of the National Research Councils Committee on Space Biology and Medicine of the Space Studies Board. She also served as Director of the US/Russia Cardiovascular Biology Program at the NIH. Dr. Swain currently serves as a member of the NIH National Advisory Research Resources Council, and as a member of the Technology Panel of the Defense Science Board.