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2008 EYH Keynote Speaker

Karen Habucky, Ph.D. is currently the President of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) and has been an active volunteer in Association for more than 15 years.   She also held the position of Member-at-Large on the AAPS Executive Council.  Other AAPS volunteer activities include Chair of the Program Coordination Committee (2002), Annual Meeting Programming Committee (2001), Training Task Force (2003) and Task Force Chair for the Section Strategic Visioning (2004).  Karen currently mentors several junior scientists and graduate students, is actively involved in Visiting Scientist Program, and visited 3 Schools of Pharmacy this year.   Karen has a passion for teaching and served as a PERI faculty member and taught several pharmacokinetic and drug development courses over the last 15 years.

 Dr. Habucky received a B.S. in pharmacy and a Ph.D. in pharmaceutical sciences with an emphasis in pharmacokinetics from the University of Pittsburgh under the guidance of Dr. Raman Venkataramanan.    

 Currently, Karen is a Team Leader in the anti-infective area and is focused on developing new therapies for life-threatening infections.  During her career, she had held various leadership positions in regulatory affairs, preclinical pharmacokinetics, drug metabolism, clinical pharmacokinetics and toxicology.  She has held positions at several pharmaceutical firms such as Johnson & Johnson, Sandoz Research Institute and Huntingdon Life Sciences.