Medication Expert Witnesses in North Carolina

This highly-qualified pharmacist earned her PharmD at the University of Georgia and is a licensed pharmacist in the state of Georgia. Her work focuses on ambulatory care pharmacy, as well as transitions of care, patient education, cardiology, diabetes, and COPD. She is active in her field as a member of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy and the American Society of Health System Pharmacists. She has formerly served as a pharmacist at Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Athens Veterans Affairs Community Outpatient Clinic and Mercy Health Center. This expert currently serves as a clinical associate professor at a college of pharmacy and as an ambulatory care clinical pharmacist at a major medical center in Georgia.

This expert has over 40 years of experience in the Pharmaceutical and Pharmaceutical Packaging industries. He has published five books and has instructed professionals at the graduate level in Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs at a major university's pharmacy school. As a former Director of the Science Branch of the Philadelphia District FDA, he directed a laboratory staff of 30 in methods verification of New Drug Applications and Abbreviated New Drug Applications, Drug Product Surveys, and Research Projects. Currently, this expert is an independent consultant in which he assists pharmaceutical firms in technical, regulatory, and management areas to ensure their clients' products hit the market in a timely manner. He assists attorneys as an Expert Witness/Subject Matter Expert in Pharmaceutical cases.

This highly qualified expert has years of experience in the field of neuropharmacology. He received his PhD degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and completed his fellowship training at Harvard University. He is a member of various professional associations, including the American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and the American Chemical Society. He has published 250+ peer reviewed journal articles and has 51+ US issued patents that focus particularly on neurological studies. He also serves as the editor-in-chief for ACS Chemical Neuroscience, lectures both nationally and internationally and has received multiple honors for his outstanding work, including the John J. Abel award in pharmacology. He is the former co-director of the Synthesis Facility at the Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology and the former senior organic chemist at Eli Lilly & Co. Currently, he is a professor of pharmacology and chemistry at a major university, where he is also the director of medicinal chemistry and DMPK at the Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery. Additionally, he is the director of drug discovery at a major science institute in Tennessee.

This qualified expert of Addiction Psychiatry completed his undergrad and MD in Canada at the McGill University. He completed his post-doc Residency and Fellowship in Psychiatry and Pharmacology in Canada at the University of Toronto. He is Board Certified in the US in Psychiatry & Neurology and in Addiction Psychiatry. He is a member of multiple Addiction Psychiatry Medical Associations and has published 200+ Publications on Addiction Psychiatry Research. He is currently a Professor of Psychiatry at a Top Medical University, the Director of a Top University's Addiction Center, and is the Chief Psychiatrist and Associate Medical Director at a Top University Hospital.

This extremely qualified clinical expert is an internationally recognized clinical pharmacist, author, patient advocate, and expert in patient adherence with medications and the development of multi-component patient education programs that increase patient adherence from worldwide clinical trials through product launch through post-marketing stages and increase patient safety. She has expertise in the translation of complicated medical terminology into language the average consumer will understand, integration of behavior modification and design, working with medical teams to provide documentation required for FDA approval process, and developing health professional’s tools for patient counseling to ensure that the patient education materials are used correctly. She also has expertise in working with medical device companies and packaging companies to ensure that it will be easy for patients to understand the “how to use” instructions and use the products correctly. She received her BSP degree and completed her residency training in hospital pharmacy at the University of Saskatchewan before receiving her Pharm.D. degree from the University of Cincinnati. She is a founding member of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, a former member of the Board of Directors and Chairperson of the Business Council at the National Council on Patient Information and Education, and is active in many professional and consumer organizations, including the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies. She has published 150+ peer-reviewed journal articles on patient education and adherence and serves as a reviewer for the American Pharmacists Association. She is the author of 23 books on how to use medications safety for health professionals and consumers. She has appeared on many radio and television shows to help consumers learn how to take their medications correctly. She is also the former director of clinical affairs at the American Pharmacists Association, which honored her with its Foundation Pinnacle Award for her outstanding leadership. Additionally, she is the former coordinator of the ambulatory patient pharmacy at Sunnybrook Medical Center and a former associate professor of clinical pharmacy at the University of Toronto. Currently, she is the CEO of a major patient education company that develops information to help patients understand how to manage their medications, medical devices and therapies correctly, consults with pharmaceutical companies on how to promote patient understanding and patient safety, develops multi-component patient education programs requiring FDA approval, and develops patient education programs for world-wide clinical trials to increase patient adherence so that the approved FDA dosage is more accurate and thus safer.

This expert is currently an adviser to the biopharmaceutical industry on matters involving business development, licensing, and strategic partnership. He has also held numerous board positions and currently serves on the board of directors for a clinical stage pharmaceutical company. In addition, he is an Adjunct Professor of Law at a University California. Most recently, he served as the Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Acucela, a development stage company that specializes in identifying and developing novel ophthalmic therapeutics. Previously, he was the Corporate Vice President of Corporate Development and Assistant General Counsel for Allergan Inc. The expert earned his BS of Pharmacy and Doctor of Pharmacy degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a J.D. degree from the University of Southern California Law Center. He holds a certificate in alternative dispute resolution from the Straus Institute of Dispute Resolution of the Pepperdine University School of Law.

This expert has more than a decade of experience in pharmacy practice and pharmaceutical marketing. He earned his PhD in pharmacy care administration from the University of Georgia following a BS in pharmacy from Ohio Northern University. The expert is certified in pharmacy-based immunization delivery and is a member of numerous professional societies. He previously served as pharmacist for Rite Aid and as an assistant professor of pharmacy administration at the Georgia Campus School of Pharmacy. The expert currently serves as an associate professor of pharmacy administration at a GA medical school.

This expert has 15 years of experience in clinical pharmacotherapy. He received his PharmD from Campbell University School of Pharmacy and completed his residency in pharmacy practice at Wake Forest University's Baptist Medical Center. He is board certified as a pharmacotherapy specialist. He began his career as a decentralized clinical pharmacist at Wake Forest University before accepting a position as an assistant professor of clinical pharmacy practice and the anticoagulation clinic director at Auburn University. He then went on to be an assistant professor, and eventually associate professor, of clinical pharmacy practice at East Tennessee State University. This expert is heavily involved in pharmacological research, having authored several peer-reviewed articles and presenting on numerous posters at various pharmacy conferences. He currently serves as the vice chair of pharmacy practice and professor of clinical pharmacy practice at a pharmacy program at a Tennessee medical school.

This expert earned his BS in pharmacy from the University of Georgia, and began his professional career working as a pharmacist at Big B Drugs, Rite Aid Pharmacy and Oconee Family Pharmacy in Georgia. After working at a pharmacist for nearly a decade, he went on to earn his MD from Mercer University School of Medicine, followed by a residency in anesthesia and a fellowship in pain management at Georgia Health Sciences University. This expert is board certified in anesthesiology, pain medicine and addiction medicine, and is an active member of the Georgia Society of Interventional Pain Physicians. He has served as a staff anesthesiologist at Georgia Health Sciences University, an interventional pain management physician at Ancora Pain Recovery, and a physician at Spine Center Atlanta. Currently, this expert serves as a staff anesthesiologist at a VA medical center in Georgia, and an anesthesiologist at an anesthesiology group.