Rotonya M. Carr

Rotonya McCants Carr is an American hepatologist and physician-scientist who studies the function of lipid metabolites and lipid droplet proteins in relation to hepatic insulin signaling. She is the Cyrus E. Rubin Chair and division head of gastroenterology at the University of Washington.

Life Carr and her brother were raised by a single mother with some support from their grandmother. She grew up in Charleston, South Carolina. She completed a gap year in Butterworth, South Africa where she volunteered at a technical college. The same year, she was a nominee for the board of the school district of Philadelphia. She researches the function of lipid metabolites and lipid droplet proteins in relation to hepatic insulin signaling. She is an associate professor of medicine in the division of gastroenterology at the University of Washington.