UMSON's Dorsey bestowed highest faculty honor for her transformative contributions to nursing, research.
Susan G. Dorsey, PhD ’01, MS ’98, RN, FAAN, professor, has been named by University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) President Bruce E. Jarrell, MD, FACS, as one of six 2024 Distinguished University Professors, the highest appointment bestowed on a faculty member at UMB. It recognizes Dorsey’s excellence, impact, and significant contributions to the nursing profession and practice.
“I am very humbled to have been appointed a Distinguished University Professor President Jarrell to receive the Distinguished University Professor, and it is a great honor to be recognized at the University level by the president and faculty colleagues,” Dorsey said. “I am extremely proud to have spent my entire academic career at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.”
In addition to her appointment at UMSON, Dorsey is a professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and the Department of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and in the Department of Neural and Pain Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Dentistry.
She is nationally and internationally recognized for her research and scholarship related to chronic pain and for developing strategies for the use of multiomics (e.g., genomic, transcriptomic, epigenomic, metabolomic) methods to identify the biological mechanisms underlying symptoms and the self-management of symptoms. This work has led to new discoveries regarding genomic factors of neuromuscular weakness in muscular dystrophy and in the transition from acute to chronic pain across numerous conditions. The translational potential of her work — the interface between bench research and clinical care — has led to nearly $30 million in National Institutes of Health research funding as principal investigator or co-investigator and to numerous publications, honors, and awards. Dorsey has a significant record of publication in journals including Pain, PLOS Genetics, Journal of Neuroscience, Nursing Research, and Science Signaling. She is the co-editor of the 2020 book “Genomics of Pain and Co-Morbid Symptoms.”
She has also worked to inspire researchers as they pursue their own multiomics research, innovation, and discovery.