Atkinson's Principles of Clinical Pharmacology

Shiew-Mei Huang, PhD, FCP is Acting Director at the Office of Clinical Pharmacology (OCP), Center for Drug Evaluation Research (CDER), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in Silver Spring, MD. She is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Maryland, School of Pharmacy, in Baltimore, MD. Since joining OCP, she has assumed responsibility for a wide variety of scientific activities relating to review, policy development, research and scientific communications. She has also managed several extramural research projects in the areas of drug metabolism, drug-drug and drug-herb interactions, and pharmacogenetics. She has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters focusing on the topics of clinical pharmacology, drug metabolism/transport and drug interactions, pharmacogenetics and biomarker areas. Dr. Huang is currently an Associate Editor for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics and is on the editorial board of several additional journals. Juan Lertora, MD, PhD, is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC. He was previously director of the Clinical Pharmacology Program at the NIH Clinical Center. He attended the Faculty of Medicine, National University of the Northeast, Argentina (M.D.) and Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana (Ph.D. in Pharmacology). He received the 2013 PhRMA Foundation Award in Excellence in Clinical Pharmacology from the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT). Dr. Lertora was awarded a PhRMA Foundation Faculty Development Award in Clinical Pharmacology while teaching pharmacology at Northwestern University. He received a PMA Foundation Clinical Pharmacology Unit Award as an Associate Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology and Section Head of Clinical Pharmacology at the Tulane University School of Medicine. He received the NIH Clinical Center Director's Award for Teaching and Training in 2008. Paolo Vicini, PhD, is Vice President, Development Sciences, Kymab Ltd., MedImmune Limited, Cambridge, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Cambridge. He has in-depth leadership and scientific experience in pharmaceutical and academic R&D, teaching and training, consulting and business education. He has more than 130 scholarly publications in diverse areas such as: oncology targeted agents, diabetes, immunotherapy and immunogenicity, dose optimization, maternal-fetal and pediatric pharmacology. Dr. Vicini has direct experience in translational and clinical sciences through all phases of drug discovery and development. Dr. Atkinson received his A.B. degree in Chemistry from Harvard College in 1959 and his M.D. from Cornell University Medical College in 1963. Following medical internship and residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital, he was a Clinical Associate in the Laboratory of Clinical Investigation of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at NIH. He subsequently received postdoctoral training in clinical pharmacology at the University of Cincinnati and was a Visiting Scientist in the Department of Toxicology at the Karolinska Institute before moving to Northwestern University Medical School in 1970 to start the program in clinical pharmacology. While at Northwestern, he and his colleagues set up the first U.S. hospital laboratory devoted to general therapeutic drug monitoring, designed and conducted the first clinical investigations to develop the acetylated metabolite of procainamide as a new antiarrhythmic drug, carried out the first pharmacokinetic studies with stable isotope-labeled drugs, and completed basic research that elucidated the physiologic basis of some multicompartmental models of drug distribution. In 1994, Dr. Atkinson was appointed Corporate Vice President for Clinical Development and Medical Affairs at the Upjohn Company. Following the Upjohn-Pharmacia merger, he joined the Center for Drug Development Science at Georgetown University as an Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology. From 1975 to 1979, Dr. Atkinson served as a member of the Pharmacology/Toxicology Program Committee of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), and from 1984 to 1986, chaired the Pharmacological Sciences Program Committee for that institute. In 1997, he returned to NIH as a Special Expert Consultant in Clinical Pharmacology for NIGMS. The following year, he was appointed Senior Advisor in Clinical Pharmacology to the Director of the NIH Clinical Center where until October 2005 he directed the ClinPRAT postdoctoral training program and the Clinical Center course on Principles of Clinical Pharmacology. Dr. Atkinson is a Master of the American College of Physicians (MACP), and has been President of the Chicago Society of Internal Medicine, President of the American Board of Clinical Pharmacology, and President of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. He currently is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the Feinberg Medical School of Northwestern University and serves as an Emeritus Associate Editor of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics and Emeritus Editor of Translational and Clinical Pharmacology.