Anne Zajicek, M.D., Pharm.D., is a board-certified pediatrician and pediatric clinical
pharmacologist who currently serves as Program Director of the Office of Clinical
Research Education and Collaboration Outreach at the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Zajicek received a Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy from Duquesne University and a
PharmD from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and completed a postdoctoral
fellowship at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. In 1991, Dr. Zajicek entered
medical school at the University of Pittsburgh, and completed a residency in pediatrics
at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. She practiced primary care pediatrics for two
years and then continued her training as a pediatric clinical pharmacology fellow at
Stanford University. She subsequently joined the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in
the Office of Clinical Pharmacology and Biopharmaceutics. She joined the Eunice
Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development as a
Pediatric Medical Officer in August 2003 and was appointed Chief of the Obstetric and
Pediatric Pharmacology and Therapeutics Branch in 2010. Recruited to the newly
created Office of Clinical Research in 2017, Dr. Zajicek develops strategic partnerships
with the extramural community and oversees a portfolio of clinical research training
courses.