Gregory Kearns, PharmD, PhD , Chair of the Department of Medical Research at Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, has been invited by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to present the prestigious William B. Abrams Lecture in 2010. This lecture will be presented as a joint educational initiative of the FDA and the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics.
According to the FDA, the lecture "is intended to be given by a distinguished scientist of national or international caliber who is at the cutting edge in advancing an area of seminal importance to clinical pharmacology or contemporary drug development."
Dr. Kearns is the first scientist from a children’s hospital to be invited to present this national lecture since the program was established in 1999. Previous Abrams Lectureship awardees include speakers from the Mayo Clinic, Cornell University, UCLA and the NIH.
Dr. Kearns first joined Children’s Mercy as Chief of the Section of Clinical Pharmacology and Medical Toxicology, and was named Chair of the Medical Research Department in 2007. He also holds the Marion Merrell Dow/Missouri Endowed Chair in Pediatric Research and is Associate Chairman and Professor for the Department of Pediatrics at the UMKC School of Medicine. He received his PharmD degree from the University of Cincinnati and his PhD from the Erasmus University School of Medicine in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.