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Dr. Eckhardt is Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Aurora, Colorado. She also serves as Director of the Developmental Therapeutics Program at the University of Colorado Cancer Center, and will assume the position of Division Head, Medical Oncology in October 2006. Dr. Eckhardt also oversees the clinical Phase I and GI Malignancies Programs and the Colorectal Cancer Translational Research Laboratory. She earned her medical degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. Dr. Eckhardt completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville. Her postgraduate training also includes a research fellowship at the Division of Experimental and Molecular Medicine, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, La Jolla, California; a medical oncology fellowship at the Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of California, San Diego Hospitals, and a research fellowship, Departments of Medicine and Biology, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, La Jolla.
Dr. Eckhardt has served on numerous committees/study sections, including the ASCO Molecular Oncology Task Force, the EORTC Early Clinical Trials Review Panel, and the NCI Drug Development Group. She was also Chair of the ASCO Program Committee in 2003, and Co-Chair of the first ASCO/SSO/ASTRO/AGA GI Symposium in 2004. In addition, Dr. Eckhardt is an Associate Editor of Clinical Cancer Research, and Investigational New Drugs. Furthermore, she is the Principal Investigator on several NIH grants involving early clinical trials and colorectal cancer research and has conducted numerous phase I and II clinical trials. She has published over 60 manuscripts and serves on numerous advisory boards. Dr. Eckhardt is currently serving on the ASCO Board of Directors, the FDA Oncology Drugs Advisory Committee, and the Investigational Drug and Gastrointestinal Steering Committees of the NCI. | 