THEORY AND PRACTICE OF CONTEMPORARY PHARMACEUTICS (HB 2009)

With a shift toward problem-based learning and critical thinking in many health science fields, professional pharmacy training faces a shift in focus as well. Although the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) has recently suggested guidelines for problem solving to be better integrated into pharmacy curriculum, pharmacy books currently available either address this material inadequately or lack it completely. Theory and Practice of Contemporary Pharmaceutics addresses this problem by challenging pharmacy students to think critically in preparation for situations that arise in clinical practice. This book offers a wealth of up-to-date information, organized in a logical sequence, corresponding to the art and science required for formulators in industry and dispensing pharmacists in the community. It breaks down the subject to its simplest form and includes numerous examples, case studies, and problems. In addition to presenting basic scientific principles, each chapter includes a self-evaluation tutorial designed to help you evaluate your understanding of the subject matter, numerical problems that provide practice in finding mathematical solutions, and case studies that measure your overall grasp of the subject matter by challenging you to craft a plausible solution to a real-life scenario using the concepts presented in that chapter. Written by authors selected from academia, industry, and regulatory agencies, the book presents an objective and balanced view of pharmaceutical science and its application. The authors' insights are extremely helpful to pharmacy students as well as practicing pharmacists involved in the development and/or dispensation of existing and new generation biotechnology-based drug products. This simplified and user-friendly book will present pharmaceutics in a way that it has never been presented before and will help prepare students and pharmacists for the competitive and challenging nature of the professional market.

Tapash K. Ghosh, Ph.D., is employed by the Office of Clinical Pharmacology and Biopharmaceutics at CDER, FDA. Before joining the FDA, he held faculty positions in the division of pharmaceutical sciences at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy in Boston and Howard University in Washington, DC. He also worked in various pharmaceutical industries. He is the author of numerous scientific publications and the principal editor of other scientific books.

Bhaskara R. Jasti, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Pharmaceutics and Medicinal Chemistry, TJL School of Pharmacy, University of the Pacific. Dr. Jasti teaches an integrated curriculum covering basic pharmaceutics and biopharmaceutics courses at the University of the Pacific. Following Ph.D. and postdoctoral training, Dr. Jasti’s first academic appointment was at Wayne State University in the Departments of Pharmacy and Internal Medicine. His current research interests are identifying the barriers for drug delivery and targeted delivery of drugs to cancer cells. Dr. Jasti has published more than 30 papers and presented more than 50 papers at various national and international meetings.