Pediatric Cardiologist, Clinical Pharmacology Fellow
Children's Mercy Hospital
Mollie Walton, MD is a physician-scientist with dual training in Pediatric Cardiology and Clinical Pharmacology at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. Her overarching reserach goal is to individualize medical therapy for pediatric cardiovascular patients. Thus far, her work has focused on the dose-exposure-response relationship for the medication class, beta receptor antagonists (a.k.a., beta blockers). Her current research project involves characterizing the role that known genetic variants associated with the human organic cation transporters 1 and 2 play in the cellular uptake of atenolol, a type of beta blocker.