Alex Hamill
Honor Code SignatorySigned 22 Jan 2018 | 203 contributions | 11 thank-yous | 131 connections
Frank Alexander 'Alex' Hamill is the only son of Robert Kim Hamill and Nancy Ann Alexander. He grew up in Denver and Littleton, Colorado, with his mother and step-father (Russell Craig Craig) and his half-sister, Amy Elizabeth Craig. He visited his father (Robert Kim Hamill) and step-mother (Jerryn Ann Kruse) for Spring Break, Summer Break, and Christmas Break, from elementary school age until High School. He lived with his father and step-mother during most of high school in San Antonio, Texas. He received a B.S. in Biology from Emporia State University in Kansas in 1994, and a Ph.D. in Pharmacognosy from the College of Pharmacy at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2001. He specialized in maximum containment (BSL-4) laboratory-related work (Ebola, Marburg, and others) and BSL-3 laboratory-related work, and traveled frequently to republics of the Former Soviet Union to help their scientists develop public health programs and build high containment diagnostic labs. He lived in Uzbekistan for 30 months to do this work. He worked in Kazakhstan, Republic of Georgia, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Senegal on similar projects. He met his spouse, Isaac John Whitaker, a nurse, in January 2004 in Seattle, WA. They were married in Washington, D.C., when they moved there in 2010.
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