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Expert in Pharmacy Practice, Pharmacy Standard of Care, Pharmacology, Drug effects, Drug Misadventures, FDA
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He has held membership in various professional organizations, and has served as an officer as well as in other capacities within these organizations. He has also served in an administrative, clinical, advisory, or committee-related capacity for a host of organizations including health-care institutions, governmental agencies, private industry, or community service groups. Further, he has been the recipient of academic and work-related awards and honors, including being named chief pharmacy resident; elected to fellow status by the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists, among others.
His clinical practice revolves around the provision of patient-focused pharmaceutical care, as well as drug information and literature evaluation services to health-care providers. Specifically, he provides inpatient and outpatient clinical/dispensing services to regionally located hospitals and community pharmacies, as well as provide patient-specific drug utilization reviews on behalf of individual patients and 3rd-parties. He systematically reviews patients' drug regimens and make recommendations on ways to optimize therapy with a particular emphasis on assessing drug misadventures (e.g. adverse drug reactions, drug interactions, medication errors, etc.). A pharmacoepidemiologic assessment and prevention of drug-related morbidity has been the primary theme throughout my work experience, as he has co-chaired the drug-related morbidity subcommittees at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; was responsibility for summarizing and reporting adverse drug events to the FDA as my primary role in clinical research in the pharmaceutical industry; and have served on the editorial review board for the Adverse Reaction Reporter® software for Facts & Comparisons, a peer-reviewed drug reference aimed at aiding in the assessment and reporting of adverse drug reactions. Further, he has lectured extensively on proper drug selection and drug safety issues to professional and community groups.
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Expert received a bachelor's degree in pharmacy from West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV, and as an undergraduate was awarded a competitive internship by the National Pharmaceutical Council at Burroughs-Wellcome Company in Research Triangle Park, NC. He received a master's degree in pharmacy practice from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and concurrently completed a hospital pharmacy residency at the North Carolina Memorial Hospital. He has completed specialty training including a management development program in health-care at the University of Southern California, School of Pharmacy in Los Angeles, CA, and a nutrition support program at Shands Hospital on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL. He has been certified by the Commission on Certification for Geriatric Pharmacists as a geriatric pharmacist.
Expert held faculty appointments including adjunct assistant professor of pharmacology at Marshall University, School of Medicine, Huntington, WV; clinical assistant professor of nursing at Yale University, New Haven, CT; and assistant professor of pharmacy and therapeutics at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. He has also held clinical appointments at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Pharmacy; Duke University Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics in Durham, NC; West Virginia University, School of Pharmacy in Morgantown, WV; and Ohio Northern University, School of Pharmacy in Ada, OH.
He is currently a registered pharmacist in WV, PA, and NC. As a practicing pharmacist, he has served as director of pharmacy in two community hospitals. Over the course of the past 18 years, expert has worked as a staff pharmacist or consultant in community pharmacy practice for various independent pharmacies and chain drug stores (e.g. Eckerd, Peoples Drug, Kerr Drug, Revco, Rite-Aid), including pharmacies that provided home-health and durable medical equipment services. As a clinical pharmacist, he has directed, founded, or worked as an information specialist at four university-based drug or poison information centers, and have founded two university hospital-based ambulatory pharmaceutical care clinics. Finally, he has worked in the pharmaceutical industry in sales/marketing, government/regulatory affairs, and clinical research for companies that include Glaxo, Burroughs-Wellcome, SmithKline & French, and Beecham.
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Expert may consult nationally and internationally, and is also local to the following cities: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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1992
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MS
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Pharmacy
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Rho Chi Honors
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1985
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BS
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Pharmacy
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West Virginia University
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1987
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Residency
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Hospital/Clinical Pharmacy Practice
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North Carolina Memorial Hospital
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1995 to 2007
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The Mackenzie Group, Ltd.
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President and Consultant Pharmacist
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He is the founder and CEO of this private consulting firm, and provides expertise in the field of pharmacy practice and applied clinical pharmacology. He has practice in a variety of pharmacy practice settings (hospital, retail/community, long-term care, hospice, academia).
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1992 to 1994
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University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy
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Department of Pharmacy & Therapeutics
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Assistant Professor; Research Associate
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He was an assistant professor of pharmacy & therapeutics; a drug information specialist in the Drug Information and Pharmacoepidemiology Center; a research associate in the Department of Clinical Pharmacology in the School of Medicine; founder of the Pharmaceutical Care Clinic; and co-chairman of the Drug Related Morbidity Committee.
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1990 to 1992
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Yale New Haven Hospital
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Drug Information Center, Department of Pharmacy
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Director of Drug Information, Clinical Assistant Professor of Nursing
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He was Director of Drug Information for Yale New Haven Hospital, the 900+ bed tertiary care teaching hospital on the campus at Yale University. He was also a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Graduate Nurse Practitioner program at the Yale University Graduate School of Nursing, where he taught clinical pharmacology to graduate students.
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1987 to 1989
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Smith Kline Beecham
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Sales and Clinical Research
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Clinical Liaison for Sales; Clinical Research Associate
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He started out as a clinical research associate with Beecham Laboratories, and worked on clinical research studies and reported adverse drug events to the FDA prior to the FDA approval of Paxil. Later, with the Smith Kline & French division, he became the top sales producer in the newly launched cardiovascular pharmaceutical sales force, responsible for the marketing and sales of Streptokinase at the time the thrombolytic market was aggressively developing.
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1985 to 1987
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Duke University Medical Center
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Regional Poison Control Center
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Poison Information Specialist
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He worked as a poison information specialist, fielding poisoning calls from healthcare professionals and the lay public on a variety of topics related to exposure to toxins (pharmaceuticals, environmental toxins, industrial chemicals, biological hazards).
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Associations/Societies
1985 90 North Carolina Society of Hospital Pharmacists;
1985 00 North Carolina Pharmaceutical Association;
1985 00 American Society of Health-System Pharmacists;
1989 91 West Virginia Society of Hospital Pharmacists;
1991 92 American Diabetes Association, Connecticut Affiliate;
1991 92 Connecticut Society of Hospital Pharmacists;
1992 94 Three Rivers College of Clinical Pharmacy;
1992 94 American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy;
1993 94 Ovation Network for Outcomes Research;
1993 94 Drug Information Association;
1992 95 American College of Clinical Pharmacy;
1992 95 Western Pennsylvania Society of Health-System Pharmacists;
1992-95 Pennsylvania Society of Health-System Pharmacists;
1996-97 Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy;
1997-00 American College of Forensic Examiners;
2002 American Association of Integrative Medicine;
1987 Rho Chi Pharmaceutical Honor Society;
1993- American Society of Consultant Pharmacists;
2001- West Virginia Network of Ethics Committees;
2002- American Society of Pharmacy Law;
2002- American College of Clinical Pharmacology;
2003- Commission for Certification in Geriatric Pharmacy
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Licenses/Certifications
Fellow, American Society of Consultant Pharmacists;
Certified Geriatric Pharmacist; Licensed Pharmacist in the states of North Carolina, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Connecticut
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Professional Appointments
Academic Advisor; Doctor of Pharmacy Clerkship; Founder/Director, Pharmaceutical Care Clinic; Director, Drug Information Service, Yale New Haven Hospital;
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Awards/Recognition
Recipient, Rotary Club Scholarship;
Recipient, Hinton Service Club Scholarship;
Recipient, Johnson Science Award;
Inductee, Outstanding Young Men of America;
Inductee, Li Toon Awa Sophomore Honor Society;
Inductee, Rho Chi Pharmacy Honor Society;
Recipient, SK&F/Dupont Tagamet? Marketing Award
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Medical/Professional Internships
Intern, National Pharmaceutical Council; Chief Resident, North Carolina Memorial Hospital, Department of Pharmacy;
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Publications and Patents Summary
Many technical presentations, grant proposals, peer-reviewed articles and abstracts.
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Selected Publications and Publishers
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- Drug Intell Clin Pharm
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- International Pharmaceutical Abstracts
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- Connecticut Society of Hospital Pharmacy Newsletter
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Elected to fellow status by the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists
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Over the course of the past 18 years, expert has worked as a staff pharmacist or consultant in community pharmacy practice for various independent pharmacies and chain drug stores (e.g. Eckerd, Peoples Drug, Kerr Drug, Revco, Rite-Aid), including pharmacies that provided home-health and durable medical equipment services.
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He first served as an expert in 1997 and since that time has been consulted by both defense and plaintiff attorneys on over 350 cases, including civil and criminal. He has served as an expert in government, military, and civil proceedings, including federal/state court, and has given both deposition and courtroom testimony.
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Training/Seminars
Editorial Advisory Board or Reviewer; Developed several University courses; College Professor for several years. Developed several educational programs and delivered many invited lectures and training seminars, and facilitated numerous scientific meetings.
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