Susan Murin, associate professor of internal medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, received this year's Joan Oettinger Memorial Award for her outstanding research on the lung. The award was presented at the Spring General Faculty Meeting in June.

Murin has demonstrated commitment and accomplishment as a clinical researcher in lung disease. Her main area of expertise, the effect of smoking on pulmonary metastasis from non-pulmonary cancers, combines the two priority areas of the Oettinger Award.

The Oettinger award is named for a UC Davis graduate drama student who died of lung cancer. The award, selected by the Research Affairs Committee at the School of Medicine, is given annually to recognize outstanding lung or cancer research and is given in memory of Joan Oettinger, a UC Davis graduate drama student who died of lung cancer in July 1970. Oettinger's husband, Martin Oettinger, was a senior lecturer in economics at UC Davis before his death in 1986.

Murin earned her medical degree from New York University School of Medicine and her master's degree from the Harvard School of Public Medicine in Clinical Epidemiology.

Her clinical projects include the effects of smoking on breast cancer, mechanical ventilation and the efficacy of weaning protocols, and improved approaches to pleural effusion. She directs the UC Davis Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program and she also serves as a faculty mentor for the UC Davis School of Medicine "Women in Medicine Program".

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