(On February 19, Easter speaks on “Maintaining partnerships for health sciences community outreach.” The presentation is part of a session that runs from 1:45 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.)
In 2003, Carla Easter was chosen as director of the Genome Sequencing Center Outreach Initiative at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. She is responsible for developing and disseminating educational genomics material to formal and informal science education institutions.
Easter earned her B.S. degree in microbiology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1990 and her Ph.D. in biology from the University of California, San Diego, La Jolla in 1997.
Other professional experiences include research associate in the Department of Education at Washington University (2001-2003), project associate for the Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network, and pre-college coordinator for the NASA Summer High School Apprenticeship Research Plus (SHARP) Program in Washington D.C. (2000-2001), and postdoctoral fellow, Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine (1997-2000).
Washington University School of Medicine’s full-time and volunteer faculty physicians also are the medical staff of Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children’s hospitals. The School of Medicine is one of the leading medical research, teaching and patient care institutions in the nation, currently ranked third in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. Through its affiliations with Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children’s hospitals, the School of Medicine is linked to BJC HealthCare.