Background
Swain, Judith Lea was born on September 24, 1948 in Long Beach, California, United States.
Swain, Judith Lea was born on September 24, 1948 in Long Beach, California, United States.
Bachelor of Science in Chemistry with departmental honors, University of California at Los Angeles, 1970. Doctor of Medicine, University California, San Diego, 1974.
Intern in medicine Duke University Medical Center, 1974-1975, resident in medicine, 1975-1976, fellow in cardiology, 1976-1980, associate in medicine, 1979-1981, from assistant professor medicine to associate professor medicine, 1981-1991, assistant professor physiology, 1981-1988, associate professor microbiology & immunology, 1988-1991, Herbert C. Rorer professor medical science, professor genetics, 1991-1992, member molecular biology graduate group, 1991-1992, chief cardiovascular division, 1991-1992. Chair department medicine Stanford (California) University, 1996—2006. Director College Integrated Life Sciences University California, San Diego, 2004—2006.
Executive director Singapore Institute Clinical Sciences Agency for Science Technology, & Research (A*STAR), since 2006. Lie Ying Chow professor medicine National University Singapore, since 2006. Visiting assistant professor department genetics Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1985-1986.
Member search committee for director Center for Aging, Duke University Medical Center, since 1991, member executive committee departmental awards selection, since 1992, chairman combined degree director search committee, 1993, member clinical research center advisory committee, 1993-1994, member graduate student admissions committee, 1993, member search committee for chief cardiovascular surgery, 1992, department medicine intern selection committee, since 1992. Member institutional review committee Pennsylvania Muscle Institute, 1993. Cardiology advisory committee National Heart, Lung, & Blood Institute, 1989-1993.
Director United States of America-Russia Cardiovasc. Research Program, since 1992. Member National Institutes of Health Task Force on Heart Failure, 1992-1993, directors standing committee on clinical research National Institutes of Health, since 1995.
Consultant Netherlands Research Initiative in Molecular Cardiology, 1993. External advisory committee Center for Prevention of Cardiovasc. Disease, Harvard School Public Health, since 1993.
Advisory council National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, since 1995, Friends of National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute committee, since 1996, lecturer in field. Board dirs, Lexico Pharmaceuticals Inc., since 2007.
Member executive committee Council on Basic Science, American Heart Association, 1986-1993, chairman Katz Prize Award Committee, 1989-1992, research review committee, 1990-1993, fellowship research committee, since 1992, program committee, since 1992, member Levine Young Investigator Awards Committee, Council on Clinical Cardiology, since 1994, member Basic Science Council. Board directors Southeastern Pennsylvania Heart Association, since 1992. Fellow American College Cardiology (international education committee since 1994, chair cardiovascular research committee since 1996), College Physicians of Philadelphia.
Member Association University Cardiologists, Association American Physicians, Association Professor of Cardiology, American Society Cell Biology, American Federation Clinical Research, American Society Clinical Investigation (president-elect since 1994, councilor since 1991), International Society Heart Research (councilor since 1988), Interurban Clinical Club, Clinical and Climitol. Society, John Morgan Society, Institute Medicine (council member).
Married Edward W. Holmes.