Louis. She received her M.D. and Ph.D. from Duke University and completed her residency in Pediatrics and fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Washington in Seattle. She joined the faculty at Washington University School of Medicine in 2008. She is a recipient of the Harold Weintraub Award, the Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award, and the March of Dimes Basil O’Connor Award. Dr. Odom’s NIH-funded laboratory studies metabolism of the malaria parasite en route to development of new malaria therapies and diagnostics.