Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference"

This poem, entitled The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost (1874-1963), describes well the path my career has taken over the past 30 years ... from pharmacy student to graduate school ... from a small technical college back to my alama mater ... from academia to software design to medical informatics ... from drug information center to library science and technology ... from academia to consulting services

Education

  • Certificate in Health Care Informatics (2011-present)
    College of Information Sciences and Technology, Drexel University
    Projects: The role of information professionals in applied health care IT, biomedical research, the human interface to information storage and retreival archives

  • Master of Science in Information Sciences (2009-present)
    School of Information Studies, Syracuse University
    Projects: Web 2.0 technologies (blogs, RSS, widgets, CMS), mobile technologies in health care (PDAs, clinical alerts), online library reference guides, health informatics

  • Post-Doctoral Fellowship (1995-1999)
    Center for Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh
    Projects: Clinical information alerting system (CLEM), MEDLINE indexing extensions for herbal and alternative medicine resources, integration of pharmacy services drug information databases into hospital information systems

  • Doctor of Philosophy (1974-1979)
    Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota
    Dissertation Project: Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Inhibitors of S-Adenosylmethionine Decarboxylase as Potential Tumor Markers and Antitumor Agents

  • Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy (1969-1974)
    University of Nebraska Medical Center
    Senior Projects: Synthesis of Analogs of the Narcotic Agonist Etorphine, Diazepam Stability During Piggyback Infusion with 5% Dextrose in Water

Honors and Awards

  • Global Directory of Who's Who Health Professional of the Year (2011)
  • Honorable Mention, Szarejko Faculty Information Literacy Award (2010)
  • Palm Beach Atlantic University Teacher of the Year (2005)
  • Microsoft Built To Win Award for Clinical Pharmacology 2000 (2001)
  • National Library of Medicine Fellowship in Biomedical Informatics (1995)
  • Society of Sigma Xi Inductee (1980)
  • American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education Fellowship (1977)
  • National Science Foundation Undergraduate Research Award (1973)
  • Rho Chi Pharmacy Honor Society Inductee (1972)

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Professional Experience

  • Wegman's School of Pharmacy
    St. John Fisher College
    Title: Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
    June 2006 to Present

    • Design and implementation of the Drug Information and Learning Resources Center, including reference collection development, site licenses and subscriptions processing, and classroom and web-based user training
    • Development and delivery of courses in systems pharmacology, physiology, biopharmaceutics, drug information, drug analysis, complimentary and alternative medicine, and health care informatics
    • The use of social networking tools (Blogger, Facebook, Twitter, Digg, WordPress, FeedReader) to communicate current events relevant to pharmacy practice (more)
    • Using LibGuides as a library resource with content specific to professional courses and experiential rotations (more)
    • Studies on the stability of active ingredients in various compounded veterinary pharmaceutical formulations (more)
    • Development of outcomes assessment tools (surveys, curricular maps, focus groups, professional portfolios, learning outcomes vs student performance relationships)
    • Development of revised rank and tenure criteria for small teaching-intensive liberal arts colleges
    • See www.sjfc.edu/pharmacy
  • Gregory School of Pharmacy
    Palm Beach Atlantic University
    Title: Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
    June 2001 to May 2006

    • Development and delivery of course content in pharmacodynamics, microbiology/virology, herbal medicines, and principles of drug analysis
    • Developed and maintained the virtual Drug Information Center, including server administration, code development, user passwords and proxy server configuration
    • Developed web-based evaluation tools for clinical case studies
    • Studies on the stability of active ingredients in various compounded veterinary pharmaceutical formulations
    • See www.pba.edu/graduatestudies/pharmacy
  • Clinical Pharmacology Project Team
    Gold Standard Multimedia, Inc.
    Title: Systems Developer/Programmer
    April 1999 to May 2001

    • Assisted in the design, development, and implementation of Clinical Pharmacology 2000 Online including web interface designs, database design and integration, user preferences and usage tracking, customer support and sales
    • Created chemical structure and product image files and incorporated them into individual drug monograph views
    • Assisted in the design and implementation of PDA versions of Clinical Pharmacology OnHand
    • See www.clinicalpharmacology.com
  • Clinical Event Monitor (CLEM) Project Team
    Center for Biomedical Informatics
    Title: Knowledge Base Applications Specialist
    July 1995 to March 1999
    • Assisted in the design and implementation of a rule-based decision support system for communicating clinical alerts to medical staff
    • Assisted in the development of a drug formulary database and its integration into an archival hospital information system
    • Applications of rule-based knowledge systems in managing adverse event detection and reporting
    • See www.dbmi.pitt.edu
  • College of Pharmacy
    University of Nebraska Medical Center
    Title: Associate Professor of Biomedicinal Chemistry
    July 1987 to July 1995

    • Development and delivery of course content in organic medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, chemotherapeutics, and drug analysis
    • Supervision of graduate students in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate Program
    • Synthesis and evaluation of antiviral nucleoside analogs, small molecule derivatives of polyamine antagonists as anticancer agents and tumor markers, characterization of degradation products of poly-lactide/glycolide copolymers as biodegradable drug delivery systems
    • See www.unmc.edu/pharmacy
  • College of Pharmacy
    Ferris State University
    Title: Assistant Professor of Pharmacy
    January 1980 to June 1987

    • Development and delivery of course content in organic medicinal chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacology, and chemotherapeutics
    • Synthesis and evaluation of novel nucleoside analogs
    • Supervised undergraduate pharmacy students during their senior research projects
    • See www.ferris.edu/colleges/pharmacy