Columbia Nursing Welcomes Leading Interdisciplinary Researcher Elizabeth Corwin

On September 1, Elizabeth Corwin, PhD, FAAN, joined the school as its new Vice Dean, Strategic and Innovative Research.

Corwin comes from the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University, where she served as Associate Dean for Research and held the Edith F. Honeycutt Chair in Nursing. Under her leadership, Emory Nursing increased research awards to record levels.

Corwin is leading interdisciplinary research aimed at uncovering the biological mechanisms responsible for symptom development and adverse health outcomes in pregnant and postpartum women. She is a doctorally prepared physiologist, as well as a certified family nurse practitioner. Throughout her research career, she has combined her expertise as a basic scientist with her experience caring for women and families across the lifespan. 

In Corwin’s research, she utilizes cutting-edge omic technologies and approaches, including microbiomics and metabolomics, to provide a better understanding of the bidirectional contributions of exaggerated inflammation and chronic stress to adverse pregnancy and infant outcomes, especially among low-income and minority populations. Dissemination of her research identifying a biological fingerprint of disadvantage in minority and low-income pregnant women has added urgency to the national dialogue on the need to eliminate health disparity.