Joseph T. DiPiro, Ph.D. is the Panoz Professor of Pharmacy at the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy and clinical professor of surgery at the Medical College of Georgia. He is also assistant dean for the College of Pharmacy and the School of Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia, and head of the department of clinical and administrative pharmacy. He served as director of surgical research at the Medical College of Georgia from 1990 to 2000. Dr. DiPiro has published over 120 papers in academic and professional journals, mainly related to antibiotics, drug use in surgery, various issues in pharmacy practice and pharmacy education. His papers have appeared in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Pharmacotherapy, Critical Care Medicine, JAMA, Annals of Surgery, Archives of Surgery, American Journal of Surgery, Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and Surgical Infections. He is the senior editor for Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach, now in its 5th edition and editor of the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education. He is also the author of Concepts in Clinical Pharmacokinetics and Editor of the Encyclopedia of Clinical Pharmacy. He serves on the editorial boards of Pharmacotherapy, American Surgeon and Medscape Pharmacy. He has been a member of the Surgical Infection Society Therapeutic Agents Committee and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. He is a Fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy and has served on the Research Institute Board of Trustees. In 2002, the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy selected Dr. DiPiro for the Robert K. Chalmers Distinguished Educator Award. He has also received the Russell R. Miller Literature Award from the American College of Clinical Pharmacy and the Award for Sustained Contributions to the Literature from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. Dr. DiPiro received his B.S. from the University of Connecticut and received his Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Kentucky. |