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Burns Blaxall, PhD joins The Christ Hospital Health Network as Program Director of Personalized Medicine and Pharmacogenetics

The Christ Hospital Health Network is pleased to announce that effective Monday, July 1, Burns C. Blaxall, PhD will join as Program Director of Personalized Medicine and Pharmacogenetics.

7/8/2019

The Christ Hospital Health Network is pleased to announce that effective Monday, July 1, Burns C. Blaxall, PhD will join as Program Director of Personalized Medicine and Pharmacogenetics.

Dr. Blaxall will be responsible for working with our physicians and clinical teams to expand The Christ Hospital Health Network’s personalized medicine program. That work will begin in our Oncology Service Line and then spread across the organization.

Dr. Blaxall received bachelor’s degrees in Human Biology/Zoology and Spanish from Brigham Young University. He obtained his PhD in Pharmacology from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, followed by postdoctoral fellowship training at Duke University Medical Center. Most recently, he completed the Core Leadership and Advanced Leadership Development Programs in conjunction with the Harvard Business School. He has received numerous academic honors and awards in addition to election as a Fellow of five leading organizations.

As an internationally recognized leader in research, Dr. Blaxall has served in a variety of leadership positions focused on research and innovation. He joins us from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital where he was the Founding Director of the Center for Transitional Fibrosis Research. He also served as Co-Director of the Heart Institute Clinical Research Core & Biorepository and as a Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Blaxall has published more than 85 peer-reviewed articles and has presented more than 150 invited lectures on topics ranging from heart disease and pharmacogenomics to multi-organ fibrosis.

We are excited for Dr. Blaxall to join our team and look forward to the expertise he will bring to our Personalized Medicine Program. He can be reached at Burns.Blaxall@TheChristHospital.com and his phone number is 513-585-0428.