Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Divisions of Adolescent Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutic Innovation, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Children's Mercy Kansas City
Stephani Stancil, PhD, APRN is an adolescent medicine clinician scientist in the Divisions of Adolescent Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutic Innovation at Children's Mercy and an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. She was clinically trained as a Family Nurse Practitioner at the University of Kansas, received a PhD in Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Missouri - Kansas City and completed a NICHD T32 post-doctoral fellowship in Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology at Children's Mercy Kansas City. For over a decade, her clinical practice has focused on complex teens in specialized and vulnerable populations. Her interdisciplinary, translational research focuses on developing precision therapeutics for adolescent mental health conditions by understanding variability in exposure and response. Her other research interests include improving reproductive health care in teens and reducing risks of vulnerable youth. She recently served as an editor-in-training for the ASCPT journal, Clinical and Translational Science and now serves on the Editorial Board. She has been a member of ASCPT since 2013.