Dr. Burns C. Blaxall is the director of the Precision Medicine program at The Christ Hospital. As a leading translational researcher, Dr. Blaxall works collaboratively with doctors and clinical care teams to expand the delivery of targeted therapeutics, and has agreed to share his experience with Miami students! 

Having earned his doctorate in pharmacology from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Dr. Blaxall completed a postdoctoral fellowship training at Duke University Medical Center. Since then, he was a professor of pharmacology and physiology at the University of Rochester Medical Center and at the University of Cincinnati. During his time at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Dr. Blaxall was director of Translational Science, co-director of the Heart Institute Clinical Research Core & Biorepository, and professor of Pediatrics. His precision medicine research expands from oncology to cardiovascular disease and beyond, with an emphasis on identifying, developing, and accelerating therapeutic treatment approaches through pharmacogenomics. Dr. Blaxall will be presenting his work on the implementation of precision medicine in The Christ Hospital Health Network, also sharing further insight on his pathway to success as a translational research scientist.

Join us from 6:00-7:30pm on Wednesday, March 24th
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