Certifications

Board Certified Oncology Pharmacist

Bio

Chris Walko received her PharmD from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and worked as a research assistant under Bill Zamboni, PharmD, PhD, at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. She completed her pharmacy practice residency at the Medical College of Virginia and her hematology and oncology specialty residency at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She also completed her academic fellowship in hematology and oncology pharmacotherapy at the UNC-Chapel Hill. She joined the faculty in 2006 as a clinical assistant professor.

She is the course coordinator of the Hematology and Oncology Pharmacotherapy Module taught in the fall of PY3 and the elective Advanced Hematology and Oncology course. She continues to practice as a clinical pharmacist at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center clinic.  Additionally, she collaborates with the LCCC investigators to pursue oncology-based research in translational pharmacology, Phase I/II trials, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacogenomics. She is a member of the Institute of Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy and the director of the Clinical Pharmacology Lab in the North Carolina Cancer Hospital.