Division Director - Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology

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The Department of Pediatrics at Children’s Mercy seeks a creative and scholarly leader to serve as Division Director of Clinical Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Therapeutic Innovation. The Division Director will be responsible for leading the research, educational, and quality missions of Clinical Pharmacology, an academic division focused on providing clinical consultation and research programs aimed at making the use of medications in children safer and more effective.

Within the division, the Section of Medical Toxicology provides consultative services for potential poison exposures, including overdoses, environmental exposures, and envenomations. The Division Director will foster collaborative ties throughout Children’s Mercy, bridging the division’s research missions in genomic, clinical research, and translational interests across the Department of Pediatrics and CMRI.

This is a faculty position offering academic appointments at the University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Medicine and the Kansas University School of Medicine, rank to be commensurate with experience.

Established in 1996, Clinical Pharmacology has a national and international reputation for impactful translational science and excellence in training. The Division has a strong record for successful extramural funding and an outstanding publication record. Clinical Pharmacology faculty and staff are national leaders in pharmacogenetics, institutional leaders in health equity research, and outstanding clinicians, using pharmacology and toxicology to improve the care of patients.

Among the groups in the Division are:

• GOLDILOKs Clinic (GOLDILOKS stands for Genomic- and Ontogeny-Linked Dose Individualization and Clinical Optimization for KidS) is a multidisciplinary clinic with a pediatrician, clinical pharmacist, and nurse who see patients with a variety of conditions including adverse drug reactions, drug-drug interactions, and medication nonresponse. Additionally, the clinical staff meet weekly with genetics lab experts and a social worker to discuss upcoming patients and formulate a multidisciplinary care plan individualized to each patient.
  
  The clinic offers educational opportunities to pharmacy students, medical students, residents, and fellows.

• The Medical Toxicology Consult Team provides consultative services for a variety of environmental, exposure, overdose and poison issues. A Children's Mercy Medical Toxicologist is on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Our toxicologists also provide medical direction for the Kansas Poison Control Center. This service on average has 150-200 bedside consults per year. Academically, the toxicologists provide lectures to CMH Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellows and residents, CMH Pediatric Medicine fellows, TMC/University Health Emergency Medicine residents, and 5th/6th year UMKC medical students.
  
  In continuing the collaboration of research, Kansas Fights Addiction Grant-Opioid Withdrawal Treatment Clinical Practice Guideline was rewarded.

• Children’s Mercy Hospital (CMH) Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology (T32) training program is the Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology at CMH one of the largest and most comprehensive Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology programs in…