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  • Thursday, March 5, 2026
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM MST
    Network/Community Networking Breakfast
  • 7:00 AM - 6:30 PM MST
    Registration & Information Desk
  • 7:00 AM - 6:30 PM MST
    Speaker Ready Room
  • 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM MST
    Poster & Partner Pavilion
  • 8:15 AM - 9:00 AM MST
    Dolores Shockley Diversity and Inclusion in Clinical Research Award Lecture
    Award Lecturer: Erica Woodahl, PhD – University of Montana
    Chair: Sandra A.G Visser, PhD (she/her/hers) – Quantivis LLC, ASCPT President
    Specific Populations (SPO)Pharmacogenomics (PGx)
  • 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM MST
    2025 Darrell Abernethy Early Stage Investigator Award Lecture
    Award Lecturer: Katherine N. Theken, PharmD, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Pennsylvania
    Award Presenter: Emily J. Cicali, PharmD (she/her/hers) – University of Florida
    Pharmacogenomics (PGx)
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM MST
    [Rescheduled] State of the Art Lecture - Ted Love
  • 9:15 AM - 11:45 AM MST
    Precision Pharmacology Across the Spectrum of Kidney Disease
    Chair: Shannon Reinert, MD (she/her/hers) – Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
    Chair: Danica Quickfall, MD (she/her/hers) – Mayo Clinic AZ
    Speaker: H. Rhodes Hambrick, MD, MSc (he/him/his) – Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
    Speaker: Richard B. Dorshow, PhD (he/him/his) – MediBeacon
    Speaker: Samuel Dubinsky, PharmD, PhD (he/him/his) – Dalhousie University
    Speaker: Gideon Stitt, PharmD (he/him/his) – University of Utah
    Speaker: Ashley Hart (she/her/hers) – Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
    Speaker: Martina Sahre, PhD – US Food and Drug Administration
    Specific Populations (SPO)Precision Dosing (PD)
  • 9:15 AM - 11:45 AM MST
    Exceptional and Not the Exception: Innovation and Rigor in Maternal Pharmacotherapeutics Research
    Chair: Rupsa C. Boelig, MD (she/her/hers) – Thomas Jefferson University
    Chair: Edwin Lam, PharmD (he/him/his) – Biogen
    Speaker: Jonathan Cherry, MBA (he/him/his) – March of Dimes
    Speaker: Elimika Fletcher, PharmD, PhD (she/her/hers) – US Food and Drug Administration
    Speaker: Karen Rowland Yeo, PhD (she/her/hers) – Certara UK Ltd
    Speaker: Ananth Kammala, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Texas Medical Branch
    Speaker: Laura Bozzi, PhD (she/her/hers) – Johnson & Johnson
    Specific Populations (SPO)
  • 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM MST
    Headshot Lounge (brought to you by Metrum)
  • 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM MST
    Learning Lab | Building Tomorrow's Evidence Today: How Smart Early Phase Data Collection Streamlines Drug Development (brought to you by Parexel)
  • 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM MST
    Learning Lab | Considerations on Design, Safety, Pharmacokinetics, and Dynamics of Oligonucleotide First-in-Human Studies (brought to you by ICON)
  • 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM MST
    Networking Break (brought to you by IntiQuan)
  • 10:45 AM - 11:30 AM MST
    Rawls-Palmer Progress in Medicine Award Lecture
    Award Lecturer: Sander A. Vinks, PharmD, PhD (he/him/his) – Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, NDA Partners a ProPharma Company
    Award Presenter: Carl C. Peck, MD (he/him/his) – Principle, NDA Partners/Treximo
    Precision Dosing (PD)Specific Populations (SPO)
  • 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM MST
    From Black Box to Better Health: Debating AI's Role in Clinical Pharmacology and Drug Development
    Chair: Mohamed Shahin, PhD (he/him/his) – Pfizer
    Chair: Caroline Grant, PhD (she/her/hers) – AbbVie
    Speaker: Matthew Rizk, PhD (he/him/his) – Merck
    Speaker: Kristin Bigos, PhD (she/her/hers) – Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
    Speaker: Nadia Terranova, MBA, PhD – EMD Serono
    Speaker: Benjamin Weber, PhD – Novo Nordisk
    Translational Informatics (TI)Student & Trainee (ST)
  • 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM MST
    Leadership Accelerator Lunch (by invitation only)
  • 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM MST
    Networking Lunch (brought to you by Gilead)
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM MST
    Lunch & Learn | Equity by Design: Advancing Pharmacoequity Through Integrated Model-Informed Drug Development (brought to you by Certara)
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM MST
    Lunch & Learn | Transporter Drug-Drug Interaction (DDI) Studies: Optimizing Study Designs with Cocktail & Biomarker Approaches (brought to you by Celerion)
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM MST
    Lunch & Learn | From Debate to Deployment: Responsible, Practical AI in MIDD (brought to you by Simulations Plus)
  • 1:15 PM - 1:20 PM MST
    Pharmacoequity through Indigenous Lenses: Perspectives on Healthcare, Research, and Tribal Sovereignty (brought to you by Pfizer)

    Chair: Erica Woodahl, PhD – University of Montana

    Moderator: Katrina Claw, PhD – University of Colorado Anschutz

    Speaker: Vernon S. Finley, N/A – Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes

    Speaker: Walter Phelps – Flint Point LLC

    Speaker: Terry Maresca, MD – University of Washington School of Medicine

  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM MST
    Scaling the Summit of Membrane Protein Knowledge to Treat Rare Diseases
    Chair: Jason Sprowl, PhD – State University of New York at Buffalo
    Chair: Mary Paine, PhD, RPh – Washington State University
    Speaker: Kim LR Brouwer, PharmD, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy
    Speaker: James J. Beaudoin, PhD (he/him/his) – Simulations Plus, Inc.
    Membrane Transporter (MT)
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM MST
    Mapping the Mind: Neuroimaging as the Key to CNS Drug Discovery and Action
    Chair: Vijay A. Ramchandani, PhD (he/him/his) – National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
    Chair: Joy C. Hsu, PhD (she/her/hers) – Genentech
    Speaker: Stephani Stancil, PhD (she/her/hers) – Children's Mercy Kansas City
    Speaker: Joshua Gowin, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Colorado
    Mental Health & Addiction (MHA)Biomarkers & Translational Tools (BTT)
  • 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM MST
    Pharmacoequity through Indigenous Lenses: Perspectives on Healthcare, Research, and Tribal Sovereignty (brought to you by Pfizer)
    Chair: Erica Woodahl, PhD – University of Montana
    Moderator: Katrina Claw, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Colorado Anschutz
    Speaker: Vernon S. Finley, N/A – Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
    Speaker: Walter Phelps – Flint Point LLC
    Speaker: Terry Maresca, MD (she/her/hers) – University of Washington School of Medicine
    Patient Forum
  • 1:15 PM - 3:30 PM MST
    Advancing Pharmacoequity in Pediatric Drug Development: Addressing Challenges and Innovating Solutions for Equitable Access
    Chair: Antoinette Ajavon-Hartmann, PhD – Bristol Myers Squibb
    Chair: Praneeth Jarugula, PharmD (he/him/his) – Bayer
    Speaker: Tamorah Lewis, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – The Hospital for Sick Children
    Speaker: Susan Abdel-Rahman, MA, PharmD (she/her/hers) – US Food and Drug Administration
    Speaker: Amy Cheung, PhD (she/her/hers) – Certara
    Speaker: Gary Mo, PhD – Eli Lilly and Company
    Specific Populations (SPO)Drug Utilization & Outcomes (DUO)
  • 2:30 PM - 3:15 PM MST
    [Rescheduled] Sheiner-Beal Pharmacometrics Award Lecture
    Systems Pharmacology (SP)Pharmacometrics & Pharmacokinetics (PMK)
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM MST
    State of the Art Lecture - Ted Love
    State of the Art Speaker: Ted W. Love, MD (he/him/his) – BIO, Immediate Past Chairman
    Chair: Matthew Rizk, PhD (he/him/his) – Merck
    Rare Diseases (RD)Specific Populations (SPO)
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM MST
    One Size Never Fits All: The Promise and Pitfalls of Precision Medicine
    Chair: Xinyuan (Susie) Zhang, PhD – Simulations Plus
    Chair: Tomoyuki Mizuno, PhD (he/him/his) – Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
    Speaker: Sander A. Vinks, PharmD, PhD (he/him/his) – Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, NDA Partners a ProPharma Company
    Speaker: Jack Cook, PhD (he/him/his) – A2-Ai LLC
    Precision Dosing (PD)
  • 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM MST
    Popcorn Party (brought to you by Certara)
  • 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM MST
    Learning Lab | Optimizing Human Abuse Potential Studies (brought to you by Dr. Vince Clinical Research)
  • 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM MST
    Learning Lab | Beyond Model Informed Drug Development: How Model Integrated Evidence Is Helping to Eliminate White Space in Pharmaceutical R&D (brought to you by Fortrea)
  • 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM MST
    Networking Break (brought to you by University of Delaware)
  • 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM MST
    Oscar B. Hunter Career Award in Therapeutics Lecture
    Award Lecturer: Craig W. Hendrix, MD (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins University
    Award Presenter: Amelia N. Deitchman, PharmD, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of California, San Francisco
    Infectious Diseases (INF)Global Health (GH)
  • 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM MST
    Featured Speaker - Eric Chun Yong Chan
    Featured Speaker: Eric Chun Yong Chan, PhD (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Chair: Karen Rowland Yeo, PhD (she/her/hers) – Certara UK Ltd
    Drug Utilization & Outcomes (DUO)Oncology (ONC)
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM MST
    Oral Abstracts I: Quantitative Systems Pharmacology for Therapeutic Optimization and Decision-Making
    Chair: Tatiana Iakovleva, PharmD (she/her/hers) – University of Florida
    Chair: Tomoyuki Mizuno, PhD (he/him/his) – Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM MST
    Pharmacogenetic Testing for Everyone: Pro-Con Debate
    Chair: Emily J. Cicali, PharmD (she/her/hers) – University of Florida
    Chair: Zachary Taylor, PhD (he/him/his) – Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
    Speaker: Laura Ramsey, PhD (she/her/hers) – Children's Mercy Hospital
    Speaker: Sonya Tang Girdwood, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
    Speaker: Benjamin Duong, PharmD (he/him/his) – Nemours Children's Health
    Speaker: Tamorah Lewis, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – The Hospital for Sick Children
    Pharmacogenomics (PGx)Biomarkers & Translational Tools (BTT)
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM MST
    Headshot Lounge (brought to you by Metrum)
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM MST
    President’s Networking Reception
  • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM MST
    Poster Session II
  • 5:20 PM - 5:50 PM MST
    Poster Walk I: Precision Therapeutics with Multimodal AI (brought to you by Merck)
    Chair: Mohamed Shahin, PhD (he/him/his) – Pfizer
    Chair: Nadia Terranova, MBA, PhD – EMD Serono
  • 5:55 PM - 6:25 PM MST
    Poster Walk II: Genetic Discovery Research to Personalize Medications in Understudied Populations (brought to you by Quotient Sciences)
    Chair: Emily J. Cicali, PharmD (she/her/hers) – University of Florida
    Chair: Laura Ramsey, PhD (she/her/hers) – Children's Mercy Hospital
  • 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM MST
    LMIC Welcome Reception (by invitation only)