Katerina Venderova, PharmD, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences at the Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine in Pasadena, CA. She combines her expertise in pharmacology with innovative curriculum design to create active learning experiences that bridge basic science and clinical application and champions the integration of foundational sciences into clinical education through competency-based medical education (CBME) frameworks. Committed to educational scholarship and collaboration, she led initiatives to align assessment and instruction with CBME principles and works across disciplines and organizations to advance integrated, learner-centered approaches that prepare future physicians.