Directory

Dr. Osby is an alumnus of California State University, Los Angeles where she received a B.A. and M.S. in Microbiology. She completed a one-year Medical Technologist/Clinical Laboratory Scientist training program at Saint John’s Health Center and worked at White Memorial Medical Center in the Department of Microbiology and at Saint John’s Health Center as a CLS Generalist. Dr. Osby attended the Drew/UCLA School of Medicine and received her Medical Degree in 2000. She completed her Residency program in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology and a Surgical Pathology Fellowship at LAC+USC Medical Center and completed subspecialty training in Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Osby served as the Director of Transfusion services at the King/Drew Medical Center and later served as the Medical Director of the Microbiology Laboratory and Point of Care Services at Los Angeles County USC Medical Center and Director of Microbiology at the Keck Hospital of USC. She provided oversight for the HemaCare Blood Donor Center as the National Medical Director and Laboratory Director from 2009-2013. In 2013, Dr. Osby was promoted within the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services to the position of Laboratory Director for the Martin Luther King Jr., Outpatient Center and the El Monte, Hudson and Roybal Comprehensive Health Center Laboratories. In 2020, she completed a Master of Public Health (MPH) in Urban Health Disparities at the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science. In 2021, Dr. Osby became the Laboratory Director of Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center. Dr. Osby has published several peer-reviewed articles in the fields of Transfusion Medicine and Microbiology and has been invited to give lectures at many Southern California Hospitals. Dr. Osby loves teaching and will be serving as the Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science Pre-Clerkship Co-Director for the FM4 Microbiology and Immunology and FM5 Pathology sections.