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March 30, 2027
2027 Kremers Memorial Lecture
Speaker: P. David Rogers, PharmD, PhD
Lecture- 12:00 pm, 1306 HSLC
Lunch- 1:00 pm, RSVP required (signup link coming soon)
P. David Rogers, PharmD, PhD is currently Member and Chair of the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital where he also holds the St. Jude Endowed Chair in Pharmaceutical Sciences. He received his PharmD from the University of Tennessee, and MS and PhD (in Microbiology and Immunology) from the University of Mississippi. He completed residency in pharmacy practice (PGY1) at the Regional Medical Center, Memphis, and residency (PGY2) and clinical fellowship in infectious diseases pharmacy practice at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Prior to joining the faculty at St. Jude, he was Professor of Clinical Pharmacy and Translational Science at the University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy. There he also held the First Tennessee Endowed Chair of Excellence in Clinical Pharmacy, served at various times as Vice Chair of the Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Translational Science, Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research, and Director of the UTHSC Center of Excellence for Pediatric Experimental Therapeutics. He is an elected Fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) and of the American Academy of Microbiology (American Society for Microbiology) and is an elected Member of the National Academy of Medicine. He has served on the Board of Trustees for the ACCP Foundation, the Board of Directors for the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists, and as a member of the NIH Drug Discovery and Mechanisms of Antimicrobial Resistance (DDR) Study Section. He is a recipient of both the ACCP Russell R. Miller Award and the ACCP Therapeutic Frontiers Lecture Award. For over 25 years his research program has focused on improving antifungal pharmacotherapy through the study of how pathogenic fungi respond and develop resistance to antifungal agents. He has authored over 330 publications and scientific abstracts and has received grant funding from foundations, industry, and the NIH.
The Annual Kremers Lecture, hosted by Rho Chi and Phi Lambda Sigma,
features a scientist and educator, or a creative leader in the health sciences.