Allyson Gibson '03
Research physicist and Ph.D. Candidate in Physics
Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.
EDUCATION:
B.A., Wofford College (2003)
M.A., Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. (2005)
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
Gibson is currently completing her Ph.D. research in physics in the Laboratory for Ultrasonics at Washington University. Her research, which has been published in various scholarly journals, has focused on quantitative cardiovascular tissue characterization in mid-gestational fetal hearts and hearts of subjects with type 2 diabetes. Through her doctoral research, she has collaborated with several physicians at Washington University's School of Medicine and spent four months at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in Washington, D.C., working with distinguished scientists. This past summer, Gibson was awarded a national fellowship, and was named to the scientific field. In addition, Gibson designed a study of health care public policy in the St. Louis community as a participant of the Coro Women in Leadership Program. She is a featured "Women in Science" lecturer at Washington University.