Committee Events
Committee on Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacogenomics
Our Events
Each year the committee coordinates a Leon I. Goldberg Memorial Lecture to honor the founding chair, Dr. Leon Goldberg. Recently the trainee’s introduced a Fellow Lecturer Series in which they host a junior faculty from either industry or academics to speak and visit the university. Lastly the committee organizes trainee socials and other events. Bottom: Dr. Leon I. Goldberg at the University of Chicago.
Leon I. Golberg Memorial Lecture Series
Dr. Leon Goldberg is the founder of the University of Chicago’s Committee on Clinical Pharmacology. Dr. Goldberg, one of the giants of clinical pharmacology, was best known for his work with dopamine, having played an essential role in its preclinical and clinical development as a vasopressor. He also can be credited for methylnaltrexone, approved in 2008 for the treatment of opioid-induced constipation. He was recruited to the University of Chicago in 1974 as Professor of Pharmacology and Medicine, where he remained until his untimely death from lymphoma in 1989.
Fellow-Invited Lecturer Series
On June 23, 2025, Tara C. Mitchell, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Section Chief for Melanoma/Sarcoma, Division of Hematology/Oncology, and Director of Clinical Research at the Tara Miller Melanoma Center at the University of Pennsylvania, will present the Annual Fellow-Invited Lectureship in Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacogenomics. Dr. Mitchell’s talk is at 12pm in KCBD 1103.
2024-2025 Awardee
For Leon I. Golberg Memorial Lecture Series:
On December 3, 2024, Steven Woloshin, MD, MS, Professor of Medicine and Co-Director of the Center for Medicine and Media at Dartmouth School of Medicine, presented his lecture entitled “Prescription Drug Communication: Room for Improvement”
Past Speaker List (1992 – 2024)
For Fellow-Invited Lecturer Series: On June 23, 2025, Tara C. Mitchell, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Section Chief for Melanoma/Sarcoma, Division of Hematology/Oncology, and Director of Clinical Research at the Tara Miller Melanoma Center at the University of Pennsylvania, will present the Annual Fellow-Invited Lectureship in Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacogenomics. Dr. Mitchell’s talk is at 12pm in KCBD 1103.
Trainee Social Events
Each summer, the program hosts an annual BBQ to welcome our new and returning fellows. Committee leadership, faculty, staff, and fellows, along with their families, are invited to socialize before the fellowship begins the academic year.
Leon I. Golberg Memorial Lecture Series
2024
Presecription Drug Communication: Room for Improvement
Steven Woloshin, M.D.
Professor, Departments of Medicine, Darthmouth Institute; Professor, Department of Medicine, and Community & Family Medicine; Co-director, Center for Medicine and the Media, Dartmouth School of Medicine
2023
Cardio-Oncology: A New Clinical Frontier and a Novel Platform for Investigation
Javid Moslehi, M.D.
William Grossman Distinguished Professorship; Chief, Cardio-Oncology & Immunology Program Professor in Residence, Department of Medicine University of California, San Francisco Cardiovascular Research Institute
2022
How Do SGLT2 Inhibitors Exert Their Cardioprotective Effects?
Milton Packer, M.D.
Distinguished Scholar in Cardiovascular Science, Baylor University
2021
Facilitating the Development and Availability of COVID-19 Vaccines
Peter Wayne Marks, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research/ FDA
2020
May Your Drug Price Be Evergreen
Robin Feldman, J.D.
Arthur J. Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Law Director, Center for Innovation, University of California Hastings College of Law
2019
Medicinal Cannabis
Igor Grant, M.D.
Mary Gilman Marston Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry; Co-Director, P.I., Coordinating Core, HIV
2018
Responding to the Opioid Crisis: An Epidemic of Addiction
Andrew Kolodny, M.D.
Co-Director, Opioid Policy Research Collaborative Institute for Behavioral Health; Schneider Institutes for Health Policy; Heller School for Social Policy & Management Brandeis University
2017
Improving Patient Outcomes Through Pharmacogenetics
Julie A. Johnson, Pharm.D.
Mary Gilman Marston Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry; Co-Director, P.I., Coordinating Core, HIV
2017
Medicinal Cannabis
Julie A. Johnson, Pharm.D.
Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy and Medicine Director, UF Health Personalized Medicine Program, Clinical and Translational Science Institute; Dean, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida
2016
Dihydropyrimidine Dehydrogenase Deficiency: Implications for 5-Fluorouracil Treatment
Robert Diasio, M.D.
William J. and Charles H. Mayo Professor; Director, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center; Consultant and Professor of Molecular Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics and Oncology
2015
Personalized Medicine: Will We Jump?
David A. Flockhart, M.D., Ph.D.
Gladstein Chair in Cancer Genomics; Professor of Medicine, Genetics Pharmacology Director, Division of Clinical Pharmacology; Director, Indiana Institute for Personalized Medicine
2014
Clinical and Translational Pharmacology of Long-Acting Opioids
Evan D. Kharasch, M.D., Ph.D.
Mary Gilman Marston Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry; Co-Director, P.I., Coordinating Core, HIV
2013
Systems Pharmacology Methods for Linking Drugs to Genetic Networks
Russ B. Altman, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Departments of Bioengineering, Genetics, Medicine (Biomedical Informatics, General Internal Medicine) and Computer Sciences; Director, Stanford Biomedical Informatics Training Program, Stanford University
2012
Translational Research in Nicotine Dependence
Caryn Lerman, Ph.D.
Mary W. Calkins Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Annenberg Public Policy Center; Deputy Director, Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania
2011
Aldosterone: Beyond Conn's Syndrome
Nancy J. Brown, M.D.
Chair and Hugh J. Morgan Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
2010
How Quantitative Methods can Improve Patient Care: Mathematical Modeling in Analgesia Research
Steven L. Shafer, M.D.
Professor of Anesthesiology, Columbia University Medical Center
2009
Oral chemotherapy: Issues that my generation of oncologists never had to think about
Merrill Egorin, M.D.
Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Center
2008
"Why good drugs are sometimes bad for the liver"
Paul Watkins, M.D.
Verne S. Caviness Distinguished Professor of Medicine; Director, Hamner Center for Drug Safety Sciences University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
2007
Cancelled
Paul Watkins, M.D.
Verne S. Caviness Distinguished Professor of Medicine; Director, Hamner Center for Drug Safety Sciences University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
2006
Developing Anti-Rheumatic Drugs: Asking the Right Question
Daniel E. Furst, M.D.
Carl M. Pearson Professor of Rheumatology University of California, Los Angeles
2005
From Clinical Pharmacology to Evidence- Based Prescribing and Drug Policy: Strengthening the Weak Link
Jerome L. Avorn, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Div of Pharmaco-epidemiology and Pharmaco-economics, Dept of Medicine Brigham and Women’s Hospital
2004
Pharmacogenomics and Drug Development
Janet Woodcock, M.D.
Acting Deputy Commissioner for Operations Food and Drug Administration
2003
Pharmacogenomics and Drug Development
Daniel D. von Hoff, M.D., F.A.C.P.
Professor of Medicine and Director Arizona Health Sciences Center, Cancer Therapeutics Program
2002
Pharmacogenomics and Drug Development
Neal L. Benowitz, M.D.
Professor and Chief, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Departments of Medicine, Biopharmaceutical Sciences and Psychiatry, Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy
University of California, San Francisco
2001
Variability in Response to Drug Therapy: Lessons from the Treatment of Arrhythmias
Dan M. Roden, M.D.
Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology Director, Division of Clinical Pharmacology Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
2000
Pharmacogenetics in Asthma
Jeffrey M. Drazen, M.D.
Parker B. Francis Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School; Chief, Pulmonary and Critical Care Division
1999
Pharmacoepidemiology: Past, Present, and Speculations as to its Future
Brian L Strom, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor and Directorm, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
1998
Pharmacogenetics: Making and Unmaking Addicts
Edward M. Sellers, M.D., Ph.D. FRCPC
Director, Psychopharmacology and Dependence Research Unit; Professor of Pharmacology, Medicine and Psychiatry University of Toronto
1997
Thiopurine Methyltransferase Pharmacogenetics: Individualization of Mercaptopurine and Azathioprine Therapy
Richard M. Weinshilboum, M.D.
Professor of Pharmacology and Medicine Mayo Medical School; Director for Education, Mayo Foundation
1996
Optimizing Pharmacotherapeutics
Louis Lasagna, M.D.
Dean for Scientific Affairs, School of Medicine Dean, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences; Director, Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development; Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology Tufts University
1995
Do Today’s Clinical Trials Tell Us What We Want To Know?Lewis B. Sheiner, M.D.
Lewis B. Sheiner, M.D.
Professor, Departments of Laboratory Medicine Medicine, Anesthesia, and Pharmacy; University of California-San Francisco
1994
Molecular Mechanisms of Antiasthma Therapy
Peter J. Barnes, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Director, Department of Thoracic Medicine; National Heart and Lung Institute,
University of London; Honorary Consultant Physician, Royal Brompton National Heart and Lung Hospital, London
1993
Antihistamine Induced Cardiac Arrhythmias
Raymond Woosley, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Director, Department of Thoracic Medicine; National Heart and Lung Institute,
University of London; Honorary Consultant Physician, Royal Brompton National Heart and Lung Hospital, London
1992
Clinical Pharmacology and the New Biology
Professor Sir Colin Dollery
Dean of the Royal Postgraduate Medical School London, United Kingdom
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