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William Douglas Figg, Clinical Pharmacist, Bethesda, MD

William DouglasFigg

Clinical Pharmacist • Bethesda, MD

Oncology Pharmacy

Senior Investigator/Head of the Molecular Pharmacology Section/Deputy Chief of the Genitourinary Malignancies Branch/Head of the Clinical Pharmacology Program/Co-Director of the Office of Translational Resources/Associate Director of the Center for Cancer Research/National Cancer Institute/National Institutes of Health

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Summary

  • Dr. Figg joined the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health in 1992. The following year he became head of the Molecular Pharmacology Section and the Clinical Pharmacology Program. He is also co-director of the Office of Translational Resources and Associate Director of the NCI’s Center for Cancer Research. He has over 800 peer-reviewed publications and his work has been cited in the scientific literature over 51,000. As a measure of scientific impact, Dr. Figg has a H-index of 121 and an i10-index of 586. He is an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons (Division of Hematology and Oncology) and serves as adjunct faculty at several schools of pharmacy throughout the country. Dr. Figg is also a retired Captain in the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service.

    Dr. Figg is a fellow in the American College of Clinical Pharmacy and a fellow in the American College of Clinical Pharmacology. He has received numerous awards and honors, including the Leon Goldberg Award from American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, the Allen J Brands Award from US Public Health Service, the Russell R. Miller Award from the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, the Andrew Craigie Award from the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, the Therapeutics Frontier award from American College of Clinical Pharmacy, the Tyler Prize for Stimulating Research from the American Pharmacists Association and the Sustained Contribution to the Scientific Literature award from the American Society of Health System Pharmacists, and the American College of Clinical Pharmacology Distinguished Investigator Award. He has been invited to give numerous national and international lectures, including the keynote lecture at the World Pharmacy Congress, the Philip C. and Ethel F. Ashby lecture at the University of Oklahoma, the Charles Hatfield lecture at Georgetown College, and the Albert Ebert Memorial lecture at UIL.

Education & Training

  • Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
    Philadelphia College of Osteopathic MedicineHonorary Doctor of Science, 2019 - 2019
  • Columbia University
    Columbia UniversityMBA, Business Administration, 2001 - 2003
  • London Business School
    London Business SchoolMBA, Business Administration, 2001 - 2003
  • University of North Carolina
    University of North CarolinaFellowship, in Drug Development, 1990 - 1992
  • University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital
    University of Alabama at Birmingham HospitalInternship, in Clinical Pharmacy, 1989 - 1990
  • Auburn University
    Auburn UniversityPharmD, 1989
  • Samford University
    Samford UniversityBA/BS in Pharmacy, 1983 - 1987
  • Georgetown College
    Georgetown CollegeHonorary BS awarded in 2009, 1981 - 1983

Publications & Presentations

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