Concise Guide to Drug Interaction Principles for Medical Practice: Cytochrome P450, Ugts, P-Glycoproteins

Useful for psychiatrists, residents, and medical students, this pocket (4.25x6.5<">) guide presents a broad view of pharmacokinetic drug interactions, and includes a separate guide with tables of drug interaction principles. For this second edition, material on phase I and phase II metabolism has been expanded, and there are new chapters on P-glycoproteins, minor P450 enzymes, and analgesics. Cozza is a psychiatrist affiliated with Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Kelly L. Cozza, M.D., is a Psychiatrist at the Infectious Disease Service, Department of Medicine, at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.; Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland; and Fellow of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine. Dr. Cozza is the Med-Psych Drug-Drug Interactions Update co-editor of Psychosomatics.

Scott C. Armstrong, M.D., is Co-Medical Director at the Center for Geriatric Psychiatry, Tuality Forest Grove Hospital in Forest Grove, Oregon; Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland; and Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine. He has published many articles on various psychiatric subjects and is a peer reviewer for Military Medicine and Psychosomatics, as well as the Med-Psych Drug-Drug Interactions Update Editor of Psychosomatics.

Jessica R. Oesterheld, M.D., is Medical Director of The Spurwink School in Portland, Maine, and an Instructor in Family Medicine at the University of New England School of Osteopathy in Biddeford, Maine.