David Osterbur, PhD, MLS

David Osterbur, PhD, MLS

Director of Public and Access Services Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine Harvard Medical School

David Osterbur acquired both a bachelor's degree in Biology and a Master's degree in Genetics from the University of Illinois at Champaign. He earned a Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of California at Berkeley, did postdoctoral studies at Indiana University in Bloomington and then was a research faculty member at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He obtained a Master's degree in Library Science from Simmons College in Boston. David worked as a senior information specialist for DuPont Pharmaceuticals, then moved back to academia as the Director of the Biological Laboratories Library at Harvard University.

Conflicts of Interest: None.