On March 6, 2013, Juan Lertora, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the Clinical Pharmacology Program at NIH Clinical Center and Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Duke University, received the 2013 PhRMA Foundation Award in Excellence in Clinical Pharmacology at the annual meeting for the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT) in Indianapolis, IN. This award honors former PhRMA Foundation grant recipients for outstanding career achievements. Prior to his time at NIH, Dr. Lertora was awarded a three-year PhRMA Foundation (known at the time as PMA Foundation) Faculty Development Award in Clinical Pharmacology while teaching pharmacology at Northwestern University. He later received a PMA Foundation Clinical Pharmacology Unit Award as an Associate Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology and Section Head of Clinical Pharmacology at the Tulane University School of Medicine. Dr. Lertora has been recognized previously for his educational work. He received the NIH Clinical Center Director’s Award for Teaching and Training in 2008. Two years later, he was honored with the Ruth L. Kirschstein Mentoring Award from the National Institutes of Health for encouraging the continuation of mentoring activities, and establishing mentoring as a core value at NIH.
 
View the press release from the PhRMA Foundation here:
http://www.phrmafoundation.org/download/PhRMA%20Foundation%202013%20Award%20in%20Excellence_Juan%20Lertora.pdf