Carole A. Spencer, Ph.D., F.A.C.B.

Carole A. Spencer, Ph.D., F.A.C.B., is Professor of Medicine in the Keck School of Medicine at USC, where she also is a licensed medical technologist, and directs the USC Endocrine Laboratories. Dr. Spencer received a B.S. in Applied Biochemistry from Bath University of Technology in England, U.K., and a Ph.D. from the Department of Medicine at Glasgow University, Scotland, U.K. In 1977, she joined the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. The author or co-author of more than 80 original papers, chapters and monographs, Dr. Spencer has focused her research on the clinical and laboratory aspects of thyroid disease and treatment. She is a Past President of the American Thyroid Association.