Committee on Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacogenomics

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. 

Dr. Leon Goldberg
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.

Past Speaker List (1992 – 2020)

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.

Past Awardees (2013-2022)

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

Comprehensive training to launch your career in clinical pharmacology and pharmacogenomics.

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