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2009 Distinguished Alumnus Award Recipient:

Charisee Lamar, Ph.D.

 

Dr. Charisee Lamar, a two-time graduate of MCG, received her bachelors degree in respiratory therapy from the School of Allied Health Sciences in 1988 and a doctoral degree in endocrinology from the School of Graduate Studies in 1998. She went on to earn a masters degree in public health from the University of North Carolina in 1999.

Dr. Lamar, of Frederick, Md., is the director of the Reproductive Neuroendocrine and Interdisciplinary Research in Reproduction programs at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and is the director of the Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Womens Health Program in the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Womens Health. As director of the Reproductive Neuroendocrine Program, Dr. Lamar makes recommendations on the distribution of $13.6 million in research funding each year.

As a graduate studies student at MCG, Dr. Lamars research was supported by an institutional NIH training grant from 1992-96 and from 1996-98, her work was supported by a United Negro College Fund/Merck Graduate Science Dissertation Award. In 1999, she joined the NIH training program for project officers.