Kristie Lindsey Rose completed her degree requirements for her PhD from the Department of Pharmacology at the Medical College of South Carolina in Charleston, S.C., on December 15.

Present for her doctoral defense before the college faculty and students were her husband, Toby Rose, also Ian, Adrienne and Conner Phlegar, all of Ridgeville, S.C.; her parents, Kenneth and Debbie Lindsey and grandparents, Troy and Bonnie Brown of Washington, and Bessie Lindsey of Tignall; her sister, Mary Ellen Lindsey of Charlotte, N.C., and Kermit Hocutt of Washington.

Following the presentation, all enjoyed a celebratory dinner.

The commencement exercises and hooding ceremony will be held in May.

Mrs. Rose was the valedictorian of the Washington-Wilkes Comprehensive High School Class of l996 and a 2000 magna cum laude graduate of Presbyterian College in Clinton, S.C.

While attending the Medical College of South Carolina she was student representative for the Graduate Training Council; pharmacology representative for the Graduate Student Association, and pharmacology representative for the Honor Council for College of Graduate Studies. She was also a graduate student lecturer in 2001,2003,2004 and 2005.

Mrs. Rose is a member of the Association for Research in Vision and Opthamology and the American Society for Moss Spectrometry.

She is employed as a research scientist for the University of Viginia in Charlottesville, Va., where she and her husband reside.