Concepts in Clinical Pharmacokinetics Certificate Program

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Joseph T. DiPiro, Pharm.D.
William J. Spruill, Pharm.D.
William E. Wade, Pharm.D.

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DiPiro Joseph T. DiPiro, Pharm.D.
Dr. Joseph T. DiPiro is Executive Dean and Professor of the South Carolina College of Pharmacy. Prior to starting his present position he was Panoz Professor of Pharmacy at the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy and Clinical Professor of Surgery at the Medical College of Georgia. He was also 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.

He is the Editor of The American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education. Dr. DiPiro 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 6th edition. He is also an 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.

He 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.

William J. Spruill, Pharm.D.
Dr. William J. Spruill is an Associate Professor in the Department of Clinical and Administrative Pharmacy at the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy and clinical pharmacist at St Mary's Health Care System Inc. Athens, Georgia. Dr. Spruill received his B.S. in Pharmacy from the University of Georgia's College of Pharmacy and then completed an American Society of Hospital Pharmacy accredited residency and Doctor of Pharmacy Degree from the Medical University of South Carolina.

He is a Fellow of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, and has served on various committees and task forces for both the American College of Clinical Pharmacy and The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy . Dr. Spruill teaches Clinical Pharmacokinetics for Georgia's traditional and nontraditional Pharm D. program and also offers a three-day Pharmacokinetics workshop for practicing pharmacists.

Dr. Spruill has numerous publications in academic and professional journals, mainly related to issues in pharmacy practice including pharmacokinetics. Current research interests involve the formation of the Clinical Outcomes Research Group (CORG) at UGA and the Community Pharmacist Research Network (CPR-net) for the purpose of performing various Pharmacy-care related outcomes studies.

William E. Wade, Pharm.D.
Dr. William E. Wade is Professor of Pharmacy in the Department of Clinical and Administrative Pharmacy at the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy and clinical pharmacist at St Mary's Health Care System Inc. Athens, Georgia. Dr. Wade received both his B.S. in Pharmacy and Doctor of Pharmacy Degrees from the University of Georgia's College of Pharmacy. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, a Diplomate of the American Academy of Pain Management and a Fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. He teaches Clinical Pharmacokinetics for Georgia's traditional and nontraditional Doctor of Pharmacy program and also offers a three-day Pharmacokinetics workshop for practicing pharmacists. Dr. Wade has numerous publications in academic and professional journals. Current research interests include cost analyses of venousthromboembolism prophylaxis.