Karen Russell, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. She received both her undergraduate (Biochemistry and Chemistry) and Doctor of Philosophy (Biochemistry) degrees from the University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica.  Before coming to Morehouse School of Medicine, she was the Senior Pharmacologist at the Caribbean Regional Drug Testing Laboratory, a WHO/PAHO/CARICOM institution responsible for assuring that drugs used in the Caribbean conform with appropriate standards of purity, strength and quality.  She came to Morehouse School of Medicine in 1998 as a Research Associate, working with Dr. David Potter, the then chairman.

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