Catherine Chew is a Senior Health Promotion Officer in the Food and Drug Administration's Division of Drug Information. Dr. Chew responds to drug inquiries from a broad range of US as well as international sources including drug companies, academia, consumers, health care professionals, attorney and brokers. Dr. Chew composes consumer information for FDA’s web site, writes for FDA’s ACPE Reaccreditation Report and serves as the author and administrator of the FDA DrugInfo listserv. She also precepts students from around the U.S., presents at various pharmacy conferences and lectures at universities.
Dr. Chew has a Pharm.D. degree from the University of Maryland at Baltimore. Before joining the FDA in 2000, she worked at John Hopkins Hospital in the Pediatric Pharmacy of the Children’s Center. She is a Commander in the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service and has been on deployments to Alaska and for Hurricanes, Ivan, Frances and Katrina.
Jean Cunningham
Maisha Freeman, Assistant Professor, Samford University
Dr. Patrick Malone is Professor and Assistant Dean for Internal Affairs at the University of Findlay. Dr. Malone graduated from Albany College of Pharmacy with a B.S. in Pharmacy degree and later obtained a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Michigan. He completed an American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists accredited residency in clinical pharmacy at Buffalo General Hospital, a specialty fellowship in drug information at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and the U.S. West Fellowship at Creighton University in advanced use of computers in education.
Dr. Malone has also 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 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. Most recently, he is an editor of Pharmacotherapy Principles and Practice.
Amy Sheehan
Christopher Wisniewski
Kimberly Wu
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Dr. Patrick Malone is Professor and Assistant Dean for Internal Affairs at the University of Findlay. Dr. Malone graduated from Albany College of Pharmacy with a B.S. in Pharmacy degree and later obtained a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Michigan. He completed an American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists accredited residency in clinical pharmacy at Buffalo General Hospital, a specialty fellowship in drug information at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and the U.S. West Fellowship at Creighton University in advanced use of computers in education.
Dr. Malone has also 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 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. Most recently, he is an editor of Pharmacotherapy Principles and Practice.
Evaluate the importance and relevance of these services and methods in your practice.
Explain how to design a system to incorporate new drug information services at your practice setting.
List and recommend new services and methods used by drug information specialists and centers.