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DEA N?S BOOK HELPS MOVE PHA RMA CY A DVA NCEMENTS FROM THE LA B TO THE PA TIENT Im ag ine t hat a p at ient just d iag nosed w it h hig h b lood p ressure could know ? b ased on t heir g enom e ? w hich of t he d ozens of hyp ert ension m ed icat ions availab le w ould w ork b est for t hem . That ?s not a far-off, science-fict ion scenario. The t ools t o g ain t hat know led g e exist , t hanks t o t he science of p harm acog enom ics. Pharm acog enom ics, t he st ud y of how an ind ivid ual?s g enet ic m ake-up influences t heir resp onse t o m ed icat ion, allow s p harm acist s t o select t he b est m ed icat ion and d osag e for each p at ient . Pharm acog enom ics has b ecom e p art of t he curriculum in m ost p harm acy p rog ram s, includ ing t he Reg is Universit y School of Pharm acy. The challeng e, accord ing t o Reg is p harm acy school Dean Sam it Shah, Ph.D., is m oving p harm acog enom ics from t he classroom and research lab int o w id esp read clinical use. A chieving t hat is t he aim of a new b ook Shah co-ed it ed w it h t w o p harm acy p rofessors at Chap m an Universit y, Jerika T. Lam and Mary A . Gut ierrez. Pharmacogenomics: A Primer for Cliniciansis w rit t en for p harm acist s w ho w ould b e lead ing p harm acog enom ics im p lem ent at ion effort s, and for clinicians such as nurse p ract it ioners and p hysicians w ho m ay w ant t o im p lem ent
p harm acog enom ics in a clinical set t ing , b ut aren?t sure how t o d o t hat . ?Buy-in [ am ong clinicians] is crit ical in m oving t he science forw ard and t hat ?s w hat t his b ook is t rying t o ad d ress,? Shah t old t he Pharm acy Pod cast Net w ork. ?Our g oal w as t o have a g ood resource for clinicians t o g o t o, t o say, ?if I w ant t o im p lem ent [ p harm acog enom ics] how d o I d o it ? W hat resources are t here t o accom p lish it ? W hat are t he et hical im p licat ions??. ? There are m any p harm acog enom ics t ext b ooks g eared t ow ard current p harm acy st ud ent s b ut few resources for p ract icing clinicians, Lam said d uring t hat sam e int erview. ?We felt t hat t here w as a g ap t here,? she said .