Professor of Pharmacology, Surgery and Medicine
Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Walter Kraft, MD is Professor of Pharmacology, Medicine and Surgery at Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. He is the director of the Division of Pharmacology and Physiology, and of the Clinical Research Unit (CRU). The CRU, located within the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, specializes in Phase I trials in federally funded and industry sponsored investigations. He has an interest in the development of novel therapeutics in the neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS). He works in optimization of NOWS therapeutics along the axis of identification, measurement and treatment of the condition. He oversees human subject research protections in the 18 hospital Jefferson network. He has held leadership in a many professional organizations and currently serves as past President of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics and chair of the FDA Pharmaceutical Science and Clinical Pharmacology Advisory Committee (PSCP). He maintains a clinical practice in vascular medicine with a focus on venous thrombosis.
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