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Corine comes to the LLC program with a Master’s Degree in Biology/ Nutrition from the University of Bridgeport and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology with a Medical focus from the University of Pennsylvania. She is originally from Western Massachusetts, where she attended MacDuffie School for Girls.  Young women from all over the United States and many countries including Somalia, Turkey, and El Salvador were represented in the community.  There, she began to discover the special interest that she had in language and culture.  She later had the opportunity to participate in a 6 week summer program at Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico. Also, while at Penn she participated in the Language College House program.

For the last 17 years, Corine has worked in pharmaceutical sales with a focus on a variety of disease states. One of the most interesting assignments in which Corine participated was with Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical Company as they began to investigate the different cultural presentations of depression in African American and Hispanic patients.  Her Medical Anthropology interests were rekindled!

For the past 7 years, she has been working at Sanofi-Aventis Pharmaceutical Company where she has been specializing in the area of Oncology.  Many of the patient profiles are African American women of all ages who are referred to the oncologists with more advanced disease in comparison to their Caucasian counterparts. In LLC, she plans to examine some of the cultural reasons for their advanced stage of disease presentation.

With an increased understanding of the cultural barriers to early diagnosis and treatment, the mortality of African American women may be significantly reduced.  

Corine is also a wife to David and a mother to two daughters, Davianne 19 and Haley 8.  She also serves in the student ministries at her church.

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