Associate Director for Pediatrics
US Food and Drug Administration
Dr. Gilbert Burckart is presently Associate Director for Pediatrics, Office of Clinical Pharmacology, U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Burckart received his B.S. in Pharmacy from the University of Pittsburgh, his Pharm.D. from the University of Kentucky, and did his pediatric residency at the UK Medical Center in Lexington and Norton Children’s Hospital in Louisville. He served on the faculties of the State University of New York at Buffalo at Buffalo Children’s Hospital, the University of Tennessee at LeBonheur Children’s Hospital, the University of Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh Children’s Hospital, and the University of Southern California for 33 years. He has been Principal Investigator of NIH grants in both liver and lung transplantation. He has served as Professor of Pharmacy, Pediatrics and Surgery.
Dr. Burckart has previously served as the President of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, and as President of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology. He is a member of the Pediatric Pharmacy Association and received their Sumner J. Yaffe Lifetime Achievement Award in Pediatric Pharmacology and Therapeutics in 2014.
Dr. Burckart moved to the US FDA in 2008. His duties include the direction of the Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology program in the Office of Clinical Pharmacology, and participation in the FDA’s Pediatric Review Committee.
Friday, May 30, 2025
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM East Coast USA Time