Year Started at SSI 2000

Professional Skills/Experience
Dr. Marissa Carter was born in England and obtained an MA in biochemistry from Oxford University. Following a brief research period at St. Bartholomews' Hospital in London on the pineal gland, she moved to the United States, where she spent 2 years as a fellow at MIT. In 1986 she graduated from Brandeis University with a PhD in organometallic chemistry, publishing several groundbreaking papers. From that time until late 1999, she held a variety of positions in the chemical and plastics industries, working in basic laboratory R&D, pilot plants, and full-sized chemical plants. She has also worked in Sales, Marketing, Technical Service, as well as Product Development, thus gaining insight into best practices of teams, TQM, and project management. Since the inception of SSI, she returned to medical research, and has collaborated with several groups in the areas of ophthalmology, wound care, evidence-based medicine, and eating disorders, the results of which have been recently published, with many more papers in press. Dr Carter's strengths lie in the many scientific disciplines in which she worked that she brings to bear on medical problems. She is a peer reviewer for the journals Ophthalmology, Journal of Infection, BMJ, and is a commentator for the BMJ's Evidence-Based Medicine section.

College Oxford University, Oxford, England
B.A. in Biochemistry

Post-graduate Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Ph.D. in Chemistry

Year Started at SSI 2011

Professional Skills/Experience
Dr. Erika Wolff obtained her undergraduate degree in biology from Harvey Mudd College, a liberal arts college with a focus on science and engineering. She spent a few years working in research labs at both UCLA and USC before beginning graduate school at USC. She left Los Angeles with her Ph.D. in biochemistry for a postdoctoral fellowship in Seattle. She has extensive experience in the fields of microbiology, biochemistry, molecular biology, and oncology. She has a long list of publications and a strong foundation of scientific and medical knowledge.

College Harvey Mudd College
B.S. in Biology

Post-graduate University of Southern California
Ph.D. in Biochemistry

Year Started at SSI 2007

Professional Skills/Experience Kimberly Tingley-Kelley earned her Bachelor of Science in 1989, from the University of Massachusetts, majoring in Psychology and English. She spent several years working in facilities management, as well as space planning and development at both Harvard Medical School and the University of South Florida College of Medicine. In addition, she has worked in medical school course evaluation and coordination, and has considerable teaching experience at the college level. Upon relocating to Philadelphia in 1999, she began her graduate work in the sciences, culminating in a MS in Biology from Temple University. Her published research is in the field of neurovirology, and deals with human immunodeficiency virus-type 1 and cell cycle regulation

College University of Massachusetts
B.S. in Psychology and English

Post-graduate Temple University
M.S. in Biology

Year Started at SSI 2007

Professional Skills/Experience Born and raised in Chicagoland, Jerry got his start in web development and graphic design in 1998. He taught web and graphic design at the junior college and corporate levels. He became a full-time teacher in 2002, teaching computers and Spanish at a parochial school in Illinois. He moved to South Dakota in 2004, where he taught on the Yankton Sioux Reservation for three years. He since has lived and taught in the mountains of Wyoming, the high plains of Kansas and presently the Black Hills area of Nebraska, while still consulting part-time in I.T.

College Joliet Junior College, Joliet, Illinois
A.A. in Sociology

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
B.A. in Creative Writing, minor in Sociology