Carleigh Hebbard, PhD, MD

Carleigh is originally from southeast Georgia. She completed her undergraduate studies in Cell & Molecular Biology and in Spanish at Tulane and Sophie Newcomb College in Louisiana, respectively. Following graduation, Carleigh joined the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Medical Scholars Program, completing her MS in Microbiology (Glycobiology), PhD in Biochemistry (Thrombosis and Hemostasis), and MD. Her doctoral work focused on helping elucidate the role of the platelet-released molecule polyphosphate (PolyP) in blood clotting. She is an OSU Buckeye having finished her EM residency training at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. Since graduate school, she has been collaborating with multiple labs on various basic science and translational research projects: investigating the link between heart failure and mRNA; trying to understand the pharmacokinetics and pharmacogenetics involved in patients’ responses to certain medications, and characterizing factors involved in opioid use disorder. Her long-term academic interest is to merge EM/Tox and basic research. When she is not working, she plays soccer (indoor, outdoor, full-field, 3v3…), snowboards, and watches Frasier, The Office (American version), and Brooklyn 99 on repeat.