Marie A. Chisholm-Burns Barbara G. Wells Terry L. Schwinghammer Patrick M. Malone Jill M. Kolesar John C. Rotschafer Joseph T. DiPiro
ISBN: 0071448802 Copyright year: 2007
About the Authors
Dr. Marie A. Chisholm-Burns
Professor and Department Head of Pharmacy Practice and Science at the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy, is a graduate and former faculty member of the University of Georgia. She did a residency at Mercer University Southern School of Pharmacy and at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1999, Dr. Chisholm-Burns established the Medication Access Program, a statewide program that provides services to increase access to medications for solid-organ transplant recipients. Over the years, Dr. Chisholm-Burns has developed an expertise in pharmacy teaching methods and transplant medicine, and has published more than 110 articles, books, and book chapters. She is the author of How to Prepare for the PCAT Pharmacy College Admission Test, which is the standardized test used by most colleges of pharmacy in their pharmacy school student selection.
Dr. Chisholm-Burns has received more than $5 million in external funding as principal investigator. In 2005, she received the Robert K. Chalmers Distinguished Pharmacy Educator Award from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. In 2006, the American Pharmacists Association awarded Dr. Chisholm-Burns the Daniel B. Smith Practice Excellence Award. She was also inducted into the National Academies of Practice in 2006 for her contributions to the advancement of professional pharmacy practice (a group with a limited membership of 150 health care professionals). The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy awarded Dr. Chisholm-Burns the Rufus A. Lyman Award for most outstanding publication in the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education in 1996 and 2007. Dr. Chisholm-Burns lives in Tucson, is married and has one child, John Fitzgerald Burns, Jr. In her free time, she enjoys playing with her son and playing chess.
Barbara G. Wells, Pharm.D.
Dr. Wells is Dean and Professor at The University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy and Executive Director of the Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences. She earned her B.S.Ph. and Pharm.D. degrees at the University of Tennessee and completed a residency in psychiatric pharmacy at the University of Tennessee and Memphis Mental Health Institute. Dr. Wells was on the faculty at her alma mater for thirteen years, where she served as Vice Chairman of the Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Director of Mental Health Pharmacy Programs. Subsequently she served Samford University School of Pharmacy as Chairman of the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Idaho State University as Dean of the College of Pharmacy.
Dr. Wells has previously served as President and Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP), President and Chair of the Board of Regents of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP), Vice chair of the Board of Trustees of the ACCP Research Institute, member of the NIH Advisory Committee on Research on Women's Health, member of the Board of Directors of the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education, Vice Chair of the Commission on Credentialing of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), Chair of the Council of Deans of AACP, Chair of the Section of Teachers of Pharmacy Practice of AACP, Chair of the Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties (BPS), and member of the Specialty Council on Psychiatric Pharmacy within BPS. She is currently a member of the Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Panel of the FDA, member of the Argus Commission within AACP, a Dean Facilitator within the Academic Leadership Fellows Program of AACP, and a fellow of ACCP and ASHP.
Dr. Wells, whose primary instructional interests are in psychiatric therapeutics, has received six teaching awards. She is a recipient of the Robert G. Leonard Lecture Award from the University of Texas College of Pharmacy and the Texas Society of Health-System Pharmacists, the Judith Saklad Memorial Lecture Award from the College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists, the Clinical Pharmacotherapeutic Practice Award from the American Pharmaceutical Association, the Education Award from ACCP, and the Robert K. Chalmers Distinguished Pharmacy Educator Award from AACP. She is a Distinguished Practitioner of the National Academy of Practice of Pharmacy, National Academies of Practice, and an editor of Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach, Pharmacotherapy Handbook, and Pharmacotherapy Principles and Practice.
Terry L. Schwinghammer, PharmD
Dr. Terry L. Schwinghammer is Professor and Chair, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, West Virginia University School of Pharmacy. In this capacity, he is responsible for directing the department’s missions in the areas of teaching, patient care, scholarship, and service. He was previously Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy. Dr. Schwinghammer received BS and PharmD degrees from Purdue University and completed a pharmacy residency at Indiana University Hospitals.
His teaching focuses on the development of clinical and communication skills, case-based learning, and nonprescription drug therapy. While at the University of Pittsburgh, he was named Teacher of the Year or Faculty Member of the Year on five occasions.
He is a Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist and has practiced in adult inpatient pharmacotherapy and ambulatory care. He is a past recipient of the American Pharmacists Association-APPM Distinguished Achievement Award in Clinical/Pharmacotherapeutic Practice. In 2006, he was named a Distinguished Practitioner in the National Academies of Practice.
In addition to authoring over 60 research papers and journal articles, he is editor of The Pharmacotherapy Casebook and co-editor of The Pharmacotherapy Handbook. These books are widely used by pharmacy students and practitioners, and both are in their sixth editions. He is also an editor of the new textbook Pharmacotherapy Principles & Practice (2007). He serves as Senior Contributing Editor, Therapeutics, for The American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy.
Dr. Schwinghammer has been active in the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP), the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), the Pennsylvania Society of Health-System Pharmacists (PSHP), the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP), and the Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties (BPS). He has served the AACP as Chair of the Pharmacy Practice Section, Chair of the Council of Faculties, and member of the Board of Directors. He is a past president of the PSHP and was named Pharmacist of the Year in 2001. He is currently Vice-Chair of the BPS and Chair of the BPS Finance Committee. He is a Fellow of ACCP and ASHP and has been elected to membership in the Rho Chi Pharmaceutical Honor Society and the Phi Lambda Sigma Pharmacy Leadership Society. He was named a Distinguished Alumnus of Purdue University in 2004.
Patrick M. Malone, Pharm.D., FASHP
Dr. Patrick Malone was appointed as Assistant Dean for Internal Affairs and Professor at the University of Findlay in 2005. He was previously on the faculty of the Creighton School of Pharmacy and Health Professions as a Professor. He also held appointments as Coordinator of Drug Informatics Services and was the founding Director of the Web-Based Pharmacy Pathway. Prior to that, he had appointments to the faculty at Ohio Northern University and the University of Washington. In addition, he has had affiliate appointments at the University of Illinois and Purdue University. Dr. Malone graduated from Albany College of Pharmacy (Union University) with a B.S. in Pharmacy degree in 1977 and later obtained a Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree from the University of Michigan in 1979. He also completed an American Society of Hospital Pharmacists accredited residency in clinical pharmacy at Buffalo General Hospital (Buffalo, NY) in 1979, a specialty fellowship in drug information at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (Omaha, NE) in 1980, and the U.S. West Fellowship at Creighton University in advanced use of computers in education in 1995.
Dr. Malone has been active on a national level in the field of drug information. He is the first author on Drug Information - A Guide for Pharmacists, which is now in its third edition. He has approximately 100 other publications in pharmacy related topics, particularly in the areas of drug information and computer use.
Dr. Malone has been on the Executive Committee for the Consortium for the Advancement of Medication Information Policy and Research since 1996 and active in setting up and running all of the functions of that group that represents many institutional and academic drug information experts. He was named a Fellow of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists in 1999. He was a member of the United States Pharmacopeia Council of Experts Committee on Information Development and Dissemination from 2000 to 2005. In addition, he is a past Chair and the current Chair-Elect of the Electronic-Based Instructional Resources SIG of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.
Jill M. Kolesar, Pharm.D., B.C.P.S., FCCP, R.Ph.
Dr. Kolesar is the Director of the Analytical Instrumentation Laboratory for Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamcis and Pharmacogenetics (3P) at the University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center and an Associate Professor (CHS) at the University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy. She completed a specialty practice residency in oncology/hematology and 2 year fellowship in molecular oncology pharmacotherapy at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. Dr Kolesar joined the UW faculty in 1996.
Dr. Kolesar's research includes the use of biomarkers and pharmacokinetics to predict response and monitor efficacy of drug and gene therapy, population genotyping for cancer susceptibility and the regulation of gene expression of the two electron reductases. She holds two patents for developing novel technologies for evaluating gene expression and point mutations. She is currently a member of the National Cancer Institutes's Adult Central IRB, chairing the adverse events subcommittee and is a member of the Board of Regents of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. In addition, Dr. Kolesar chairs the Lung Cancer Biology Subcommittee for the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group as well as serving on the core committees for the Thoracic and Developmental Therapeutics Committees of ECOG.
John C. Rotschafer, Pharm.D., FCCP
Dr. Rotschafer received his Bachelor of Science (1975) and his Doctor of Pharmacy (1977) degree from the University of Minnesota. College of Pharmacy. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship (1978) in Infectious Diseases and Pharmacokinetics at St Paul Ramsey Medical Center (now Regions Hospital) and the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy. He is currently a Professor (tenured) and former Chair in the Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology where he directs the Antibiotic Pharmacodynamic Research Institute. He has supervised the post-doctoral training of 20 fellows. Rotschafer has been awarded fellowships in infectious diseases three times by the American College of Clinical Pharmacy and twice by the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists.
In 1989, he was recognized as a fellow in the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. He has been recognized three times by the graduating Doctor of Pharmacy class as the Teacher of the Year. He has authored over 140 journal publications, made over 25 book contributions, and has over 100 scientific abstracts. His primary professional interests are in the areas of antibiotic pharmacodynamics particularly beta-lactams, aminoglycosides, glycopeptides, fluoroquinolones, and macrolides.
He has served or serves on the editorial boards of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy and the Journal of Infectious Disease Pharmacotherapy and Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease . He is a former chair of the State of Minnesota, Department of Human Services, Drug Formulary Committee. He is a member of the American Society of Microbiology, a member of Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents & Chemotherapy Program Committee, and is also a member of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. He is also a member and past President of the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists.
Joseph T. DiPiro
Joseph T. DiPiro is Executive Dean of the South Carolina College of Pharmacy. Until recently Dr. DiPiro was Panoz Professor of Pharmacy at the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy, Clinical Professor of Surgery at the Medical College of Georgia, Assistant Dean for the College of Pharmacy and the School of Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia, and Head, Department of Clinical and Administrative Pharmacy. He received his BS in pharmacy from the University of Connecticut and Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Kentucky. He served a residency at the University of Kentucky Medical Center and a fellowship in Clinical Immunology at Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. DiPiro is the Editor of The American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education. He has published over 120 refereed papers in academic and professional journals, mainly related to antibiotics, drug use in surgery, various issues in pharmacy practice, and pharmacy education. His papers have appeared in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Pharmacotherapy, Critical Care Medicine, JAMA, Annals of Surgery, Archives of Surgery, American Journal of Surgery, Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, and Surgical Infections. He is the senior editor for Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach, now in its 5th edition. He is also the author of Concepts in Clinical Pharmacokinetics and Editor of the Encyclopedia of Clinical Pharmacy. He serves on the editorial boards of Pharmacotherapy, American Surgeon, and Medscape Pharmacy.
Dr. DiPiro is a President-Elect of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. He is also a Fellow of the College and has served on the Research Institute Board of Trustees. He has been a member of the Surgical Infection Society Therapeutic Agents Committee and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, having served on the Commission on Therapeutics and the Task Force on Science. In 2002, the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy selected Dr. DiPiro for the Robert K. Chalmers Distinguished Educator Award. He has also received the Russell R. Miller Literature Award and the Education Award from the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, the Award for Sustained Contributions to the Literature from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.
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