Education and Work
Crocker received an Associate of Arts from Des Moines Area Community College, a B.Sc. in microbiology and virology from University of Warwick, U.K. in 1979, an M.Sc. in medical microbiology from University of Birmingham, U.K in 1993, and a PhD in immunopharmacology from the University of Southampton, U.K. in 1999. As of 2006 she was reported as being a member of Truro Episcopal Church in Fairfax, Virginia, where her husband was associate rector. She now lives in Southern California, and has four grown children.
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