Christine M. Walko graduated with her Pharm.D. degree from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and completed a pharmacy practice residency at the Medical College of Virginia/VCU in Richmond, Virginia, and a hematology/oncology specialty residency at the University of North Carolina (UNC). She stayed at UNC to complete a 2-year academic oncology fellowship focused on drug metabolism and translational research before taking an Assistant Professor position at UNC in
the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics until being recruited to Moffitt Cancer Center in January 2014 to assist with starting the institution’s first Precision Medicine Program.
Dr. Walko is now a Senior Member of the Department of Pathology at Moffitt Cancer Center, Program Leader for Precision Medicine, and an Attending on the Precision Medicine Clinical Service. She is also a Co-Chair for the ASCO TAPUR trial Molecular Tumor Board (MTB) and variant expert for the nationwide SWOG Precision Medicine trial focused on the clinical utility of Molecular Tumor Boards in Community Oncology Practices. Her research focus is on optimizing drug therapy using pharmacogenomics and pharmacokinetics to personalize intravenous and oral anticancer therapy for patients with cancer.
You can read more about Christine Walko at: https://www.moffitt.org/research-science/researchers/christine-walko/
None
Forum Discussions
Join us now at https://us02web.zoom.us/s/82170808361
the Q&A begins 11:25 ET!
Hi there --
I am Denise Brock - the Operations Director for GRACE, the Global Resource for Advancing Cancer Education. I began working with Jack West in 2009, 1 year after my best friend was
There is not a ton of info available for Cholangiocarcinoma, so seeing information come up with new developments is always exciting. In this video, Rachna Shroff MD, chief of Gastrointestinal Medical
Hi all -- share your cancer journey here and connect with others. Cancer.gov has a good general description of Cholangiocarcinoma. This rare disease has support information and programs that can be
Keep your eye out for new Head and Neck information soon!
Comments
Stan - Thank you once again for your kind words. Thank you as well for your donation. As you know
I had a very wonderful conversation with a fantastic person, Tom Murphy, after he had started Barb's
Janine -- I know how my world felt, but how is your world different? - thankfully your husband is
Thank you Janine for mentioning the program! I wanted to make the point that this program offers a
So Melissa and I met through our husbands -- college friends. We clicked immediately -- my sister