The Department of Life and Earth Sciences is pleased to welcome its second full time M.D., Dr. Elisabeth (Lisa) Marr. Her primary teaching responsibilities are with the nursing students in Anatomy and Physiology, though she is currently teaching a new Integrative Studies Course: Plagues, Pestilence and Pandemics which explores the scientific and global contexts of important and emerging diseases.
Dr. Marr has a strong interest in education and global issues. After majoring in geology as an undergraduate at Williams College, she received a year-long traveling fellowship to study the environmental aspects of alpaca herders in Peru and reindeer herders in Norway. She then taught high school environmental and physical sciences for two years before returning for a Masters in Ecology at the University of California, Davis. Medical school at the University of California, San Francisco was her next endeavor which she completed admirably, just slightly delayed by the births of her two daughters. After practicing family medicine in the area for several years, Lisa joined Otterbein to get back into education. Lisa was already well known to the department (her husband is Professor Hal Lescinsky), but now she is also a great asset to the students. Her interests outside of medicine and education include ice hockey, home-canning, dog training, and outdoor activities.
