Ellen Schur, MD, MS | Division of General Internal Medicine

Associate Professor

Medicine

Co-Director, Adipose Tissue and Obesity Core

Co-Director, UW Medicine Weight Loss Management Center

Faculty Information

Biography

Dr. Ellen Schur is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harborview Medical Center. She currently sees patients at the UW Medicine Weight Loss Management Center at the UW Medical Center. Dr. Schur also teaches and mentors medical students, physician fellows, and graduate students who are interested in clinical research on obesity.

Dr. Schur welcomes emailed queries about research opportunities.

Education & Training:

Stanford University, School of Medicine

Stanford, CA

1999

Residency in Internal Medicine, Primary Care Track

University of Washington

Seattle, WA

1999–2002

University of Washington, School of Public Health and Community Medicine

Seattle, WA

2008

Honors:

Phi Beta Kappa

1991

Stanford Alumni Medical Student Scholar

1995

Stanford Excellence in Teaching Commendation

1995

NIDDK Neuroimaging in Obesity Research Workshop Travel Award

2008

Marian E. Smith Junior Faculty Research Award Nominee

2009

Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center Pilot and Feasibility Award

2010

Clinician-Scientist of the Year

2012

Royalty Research Fund Award

2013

Royalty Research Fund Award

2016

Contact

Email:

ellschur@u.washington.edu

Research & Clinical Interests

Research Interests:

Eating behavior
Appetite regulation
Obesity

Publications

Publications:

Schur EA, Kleinhans NM, Goldberg J, Buchwald D, Schwartz MW, Maravilla K. Activation in brain energy regulation and reward centers by food cues varies with choice of visual stimulus. Int J Obes, 2009 Jun;33(6):653–61. PMCID: PMC2697279.
Schur EA, Kleinhans NM, Goldberg J, Buchwald DS, Polivy J, Del Parigi A, Maravilla KR. Acquired differences in brain responses among monozygotic twins discordant for restrained eating. Physiol Behav, 2012 Jan 18;105(2):560–67. PMID: 21945867.
Thaler JP, Yi CX,* Schur EA,* Guyenet SJ, Hwang BH, Dietrich MO, Zhao X, Sarruf DA, Izgur V, Maravilla KR, Nguyen HT, Fischer JD, Matsen ME, Wisse BE, Morton GJ, Horvath TL, Baskin DG, Tschöp MH, Schwartz MW. Obesity is associated with hypothalamic injury in rodents and humans. J Clin Invest, 2012 Jan 3;122(1):153–62. [*shared second authorship] PMCID: PMC3248304.
Mehta S,* Melhorn SJ,* Smeraglio A, Tyagi V, Grabowski T, Schwartz MW, Schur EA. Regional brain response to visual food cues is a marker of satiety that predicts food choice. Am J Clin Nutr, 2012 Nov;96(5):989–99. [*shared first authorship] PMCID: PMC3471210.
Lee D,* Thaler JP,* Berkseth KE, Melhorn SJ, Schwartz MW, Schur EA. Longer T2 relaxation time is a marker of hypothalamic gliosis in mice with diet-induced obesity. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab, 2013 Jun;304(11): E1245–E1250. PMCID: PMC3680680 [*shared first authorship].