KAREN S WILCOX portrait
  • Chair, Pharmacology And Toxicology
  • Adjunct Professor, Biomedical Engineering
  • Professor, Pharmacology And Toxicology
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Internal Service

  • Steering Committee, Center for Medical Cannabis Research. 01/2023 - 12/2023. University service.
  • Steering Committee, MD/PHD Program. 01/2021 - present. University service.
  • Search Committee Chair, Office of Comparative Medicine Director. 01/2020 - 12/2020. University service.
  • Presidential Task Force on Lab Safety Culture. 01/2018 - 12/2019. University service.
  • Chair, Search Committee for Chair of Department of Pharmacotherapy. 01/2017 - 12/2017. Department service.
  • Medical Marijuana and Opioid Use Task Force. 01/2016 - present. University service.
  • College of Pharmacy Executive Committee. 01/2015 - present. College service.
  • Search Committee for Chair of Dept. Pharmacology & Toxicology. 01/2013 - 12/2014. Department service.
  • Curriculum Committee, College of Pharmacy. 01/2012 - 12/2013. College service.
  • University Graduate Admissions Committee. 01/2012 - 12/2013. University service.
  • Scholastic Standards Committee, College of Pharmacy. 01/2011 - present. College service.
  • Admissions Committee, Interdepartmental Program in Neuroscience. 01/2011 - 12/2015. Department service.

Professional Service

Scientific Chair of Sessions at International Meetings
  • Chair, Scientific Program Committee, American Epilepsy Society, Annual Meeting, 2012
  • Organizing Committee, and Chair of Antiseizure Treatment Working group of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE)/American Epilepsy Society (AES) Working Groups Joint Meeting in London, 2012
  • Session Chair, Spring Hippocampal Research Conference, Taormina, Sicily, June 2013 “CNS Infection and Inflammation: hippocampal network changes and altered excitabilty (a potential neuronal volcano)."
  • Organizing Committee, “Therapy Development in the Era of Team Science and Big Data: What Will the Future Bring to the Patient with Epilepsy?” May 2015
  • Co-Chair, Investigator’s Workshop, American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 2015. “Emerging Technologies for Imaging the Neural Circuits Underlying Seizures.”
  • Co-Chair, “Accelerating the Development of Therapies for Anti-epileptogenesis and Disease Modification.” National Institute of Neurological Diseases & Stroke Workshop, Bethesda, MD, August 2018
  • Co-Chair of Organizing Committee, Park City Epilepsy Meeting: Cutting Edge Approaches to Transform Therapy Development” October 6 - 8th, 2019
  • Co-Chair of Organizing Committee, Park City Epilepsy Meeting: Cutting Edge Approaches to Transform Therapy Development” October 6 - 8th, 2023

National Committees

  • National Institutes of Health CounterACT Program Steering Committee, 2011-2013
  • American Epilepsy Society, Board of Directors, 2012-2015
  • Society For Neuroscience, Program Committee, Chair, 2012-2015
  • American Epilepsy Society Translational Task Force, 2012-2013
  • American Epilepsy Society, Executive Director Search Committee, 2013
  • American Epilepsy Society, Merritt-Putnam Symposium Committee, 2014-2017
  • American Epilepsy Society, Education and Professional Development Committee 2016-2018
  • American Epilepsy Society, Nominating Committee, 2018-2019
  • American Epilepsy Society, Research and Recognition Awards Committee, 2016-2018
  • American Epilepsy Society, Fellows/Junior Investigators Professional Development, Co-Chair, 2016-2018
  • American Epilepsy Society, Gender Diversity Task Force, 2019-2020
  • American Epilepsy Society, Basic Science Committee, 2021-2024
  • American Epilepsy Society, Presidential task Force on Epilepsy Research Funding, Co-Chair, 2023

 

Honors & Awards

  • Distinguished Professor Award. University of Utah, 05/2023
  • Landis Outstanding Mentorship Award. NIH/NINDS, 07/2022
  • American Epilepsy Society Founders Award. 12/2020
  • American Epilepsy Society Lombroso Lecture. 12/2019
  • Richard L. Stimson Presidential Endowed Chair. 07/2019
  • Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award. NIH/NINDS, 01/2019
  • Georgetown University. The Karen Gale Memorial Lectureship for Outstanding Women in Neuroscience, 09/2018
  • CURE Frontiers in Research Seminar Series Speaker. University of California, Riverside, 02/2015
  • Dumke Foundation Award. 01/2007
  • Junior Investigator Award. Epilepsy Foundation of America, 01/2000
  • Travel Fellowship. Winter Conference on Brain Research, 01/1994
  • Flexner Student Prize for Outstanding Dissertation Research in Neuroscience. Mahoney Institute for Neurological Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, 01/1992
  • Alden Scholar. Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, 01/1981