Cassandra L. Quave, Ph.D. holds a joint appointment as Assistant Professor of Dermatology in the Emory University School of Medicine and Center for the Study of Human Health in the Emory College of Arts and Sciences, where she leads drug discovery research initiatives and teaches undergraduate courses on medicinal plants, food and health. She is also the Curator of the Emory University Herbarium and is currently leading a revitalization effort for the collection. Trained as a medical ethnobotanist, her research is focused on the documentation and analysis of botanical remedies used in the treatment of infectious disease. Her geographic region of focus is on the Mediterranean, with emphasi...