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Dr. Eckhardt is Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, Colorado, where she also serves as Director of the Developmental Therapeutics and GI Malignancies Programs. Prior to joining the University of Colorado, Dr. Eckhardt served as Associate Director of Clinical Research, and as Director of the Drug Development Fellowship Training Program at the Institute for Drug Development, Cancer Therapy and Research Center, in San Antonio, Texas.
Dr. Eckhardt is the Principal Investigator on two NIH grants involving early clinical trials research and has conducted numerous phase I and II clinical trials. She has published over 50 manuscripts and serves on numerous advisory boards. Dr. Eckhardt also serves on Board of Directors for the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) as well as committees and study sections, including the GI Steering Committee of the Southwest Oncology Group, the ASCO Molecular Oncology Task Force and the EORTC Early Clinical Trials Review Panel. She was also Chair of the ASCO Program Committee in 2003 and serves as an external reviewer for the Drug Development Group, National Cancer Institute. In addition, Dr. Eckhardt is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Clinical Cancer Research, and Investigational New Drugs, and was recently named to the scientific advisory board of 5AM Ventures.
Dr. Eckhardt received her medical degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. She 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. | 