James McCormack, University of British Columbia

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Pharmaceutical Sciences Professor Vancouver, British Columbia jmccorma@interchange.ubc.ca Office: (604) 603-7898

Bio/Research

James McCormack is a professor with the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences

at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He received his undergraduate

pharmacy degree at the University of British Columbia in 1982 and completed a

hospital pharmacy residency program...


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Bio/Research

James McCormack is a professor with the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences

at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He received his undergraduate

pharmacy degree at the University of British Columbia in 1982 and completed a

hospital pharmacy residency program at Lion’s Gate Hospital in North Vancouver

in 1984. He received his doctorate in pharmacy (Pharm.D.) in 1986 from the Medical

University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina.

His main area of research/scholarly activity is in the area of providing physicians

and pharmacists with up to date, evidence based, practical information in the

area of rational drug therapy.  James has had extensive experience, both locally

and internationally, talking to health professionals and consumers about the rational

use of medication and has presented over 250 seminars on drug therapy over the

last 15 years, now available in podcast from Apple iTunes. Much of this work is

done in conjunction with the Therapeutics Initiative www.ti.ubc.ca at the University

of British Columbia. In addition, he has written numerous articles in the medical

literature on the area of rational drug therapy and has been an editor for two

internationally recognized textbooks on appropriate/rational drug therapy.


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