Clinical Pharmacokinetics Paperback - 2011

John E. Murphy, PharmD, is Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Science and Associate Dean for Academic and Professional Affairs at the College of Pharmacy, and Professor of Clinical, Family and Community Medicine at the College of Medicine, the University of Arizona in Tucson. He is also an Honorary Professor at the University of Otago School of Pharmacy in Dunedin, New Zealand. Dr. Murphy served as Head of the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science at the College of Pharmacy from 1991 to 2006. John received BS in pharmacy and PharmD degrees from the University of Florida in Gainesville, where he was a recipient of the Distinguished Pharmacy Alumnus Award in 1998. He spent 12 years on the faculty at Mercer University Southern School of Pharmacy in Atlanta, where he also served as Director of Pharmacokinetic Services at a 500 bed medical center.

Long active in pharmacy organizations, Dr. Murphy was president of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) in 2008-2009. He served as president (1997-1998) and member of the Board of Directors (1994-1999) of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) and as president of the Georgia Society of Hospital Pharmacists. John has been awarded fellow status in three organizations - ACCP, the American College of Clinical Pharmacology, and ASHP.

Dr. Murphy has published over 200 papers, 90 abstracts, and four editions of Clinical Pharmacokinetics. John was Co-Director from 2000-2005 of the Arizona Clinical Research Training Program (AzCRTP), an NIH K30 Clinical Research Curriculum Award. His research interests include preventing drug-drug interactions, pharmacy education, and clinical pharmacokinetics. Among various professional and teaching awards received over the years, John was honored with the Award for Sustained Contributions to the Literature of Pharmacy Practice from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Foundation in 2003.