Pharmacogenomics: Applications to Patient Care, Second Edition

Written by national experts in pharmacogenomics from different practice areas, disciplines, and research environments, the second edition of Pharmacogenomics: Applications to Patient Care combines the basics of pharmacogenomics with disease-specific applications to give practitioners a solid foundation for understanding the basic science of pharmacogenomics and the skills for integrating pharmacogenomics into daily clinical practice.

Chapters include:

• Pharmacogenomics Basics
  • Applications of Genomics in Human Health and Complex Disease
  • The Rich Life of a Poor Metabolizer—Tribute to Werner Kalow, M.D.
  • Pharmacogenetics: A Historical Perspective
  • Pharmacogenetics of Oxidative Drug Metabolism and Its Clinical Applications
  • Phase II Drug-Metabolizing Enzymes
  • Drug Transporter Pharmacogenetics
  • Drug Target Pharmacogenetics
  • Pharmacogenomics in Drug Discovery and Drug Development
• Pharmacogenomics Applications in Treating Disease
  • Pharmacogenomics of Solid Tumors
  • Pharmacogenomics of Hematologic Malignancies
  • Warfarin Pharmacogenetics
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Cardiovascular Diseases
  • Psychiatry
  • Respiratory Diseases
  • Transplantation
• Ethical, Legal, Social, and Regulatory Issues
  • Ethical, Legal, and Social Challenges to Applied Pharmacogenetics
  • Cost-effectiveness, Economic Incentives, and Reimbursement Issues
  • Ethical and Privacy Issues in Pharmacogenomic Research
• Fundamentals of Applied Human Genomics
  • Principles of Genetic Medicine
  • Applied Molecular and Cellular Biology
  • Analysis of the Human Genome and Proteome
  • Bioinformatics

Also available is the Pharmacogenomics: Applications to Patient Care Self-Assessment Tool. This online tool includes more than 230 questions designed to assess how well the reader has accomplished the learning objectives from each chapter. Once tests are submitted, the test taker receives his or her test score as a percentage of correct responses; information on which answers were correct and which incorrect; and the explained answers for that individual test.

Pharmacogenomics: Applications to Patient Care and the self-assessment tool are must-have resources for all practitioners seeking to optimize individualized drug therapy and patient outcomes but facing the challenge of learning and keeping up with the seemingly limitless amount of pharmacogenomics information available.

More information on these resources is available at www.accp.com/bookstore/th_02pg.aspx.