Dawn McGuire
Poetry Bio Dawn McGuire MDiv MD FAAN
A neurologist and award-winning author of three poetry collections, including Hands On (2002, ZYZZYVA) and The Aphasia Café (2012, IF SF Publishing). She grew up in Eastern Kentucky and was educated at Princeton University, Union Theological Seminary, and the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. She is the 2011 winner of the Sarah Lawrence/Campbell Corner Language Exchange Poetry Prize, awarded for “poems that treat larger themes with lyric intensity.” McGuire is Professor of Neurology at Morehouse School of Medicine, and divides her time between Atlanta and the San Francisco Bay area.
>>In The Aphasia Cafe, "Language and consciousness, in poetry and in neurological alteration, what we express and what becomes inexpressible but still insistent in us -- becomes the final acknowledgement of poetry's power." Carole Muske-Dukes, Poet Laureate of California
"My Day Job" Bio:
Dawn McGuire, MDiv MD FAAN is board-certified in Neurology & Psychiatry, and Adjunct Professor of Medicine (Neurology) at Morehouse School of Medicine, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology. She received her BA with High Honors from Princeton University, an M.Div. from Union Theological Seminary, and an MD from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, where she was inducted as a member of αΩα, the Medical Honor Society. Dr. McGuire trained in Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco, followed by an NIH-funded post-doctoral fellowship in Clinical Trial Design and Experimental Therapeutics, and joined the neurology faculty at UCSF in 1991. Dr McGuire has more than 20-years’ experience in designing and executing neurotherapeutic clinical trials in both academic and Industry-sponsored settings, from first in human studies to pivotal trials, and has led multinational research teams resulting in FDA drug approvals across three divisions of the Agency. She was a two-term grant reviewer for the NINDS NSD-K (clinical trials study section), and has been a strategic consultant in translational medicine and neurotherpeutics since 2002. Dr. McGuire has co-authored over thirty peer-reviewed publications of original research, as well as and book chapters and invited reviews; and is an editor of Practical Ethics in Clinical Neurology, forthcoming from Lippincott in 2012.
Current research foci, Neuroscience Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine: health disparities among African-Americans in stroke and in traumatic brain injury, especially military and sports. In collaboration with the David Satcher Health Leadership Institute, Dr. McGuire is contributing to innovative prevention and intervention approaches to improve neurologic outcomes for NFL veterans, and building evidence-based strategies to inform health policy change.
