Department of Pharmacy Practice

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Section of Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy

MEMBERS
The Section of Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy was established in 1983 in the Department of Pharmacy Practice at the College of Pharmacy. Members of the Section hold academic appointments in both the College of Pharmacy and the College of Medicine (Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine) at UIC. They are responsible for research and scholarly activities relating to the clinical use, safety and efficacy of drugs used for cardiovascular disease. Members are also responsible for instruction to pharmacy, medical and nursing students and collaborative clinical pharmacy practice in a variety of specialty areas within cardiology.

Director: Jerry L. Bauman, PharmD, FCCP, FACC, Professor, Departments of Pharmacy Practice and Medicine (Cardiology); Head, Department of Pharmacy Practice
Larisa Cavallari, PharmD, Assistant Professor
Robert DiDomenico, PharmD, Clinical Assistant Professor
Vicki Groo, PharmD, Clinical Assistant Professor
Edith Nutescu, PPharmD, Clinical Associate Professor and Director, Antithrombosis Center
Marieke D. Schoen, PharmD, Clinical Associate Professor

EXAMPLES OF RECENT PAPERS:
Humma LM, Puckett BJ, Richardson HE, et al. Effects of beta-1 adrenoceptor genetic polymorphisms on resting hemodynamics in patients undergoing diagnostic testing for ischemia. American Journal of Cardiology 2001;88:1034-7.
Schoen MD, DiDomenico RJ, Connor SE, et al. Impact of the cost of prescription drugs on clinical outcomes in indigent patients with heart disease. Pharmacotherapy 2001;21:1455-63.
Southworth MR, Zarembski D, Viana M, Bauman JL. Comparison of sotalol versus quinidine for maintenance of normal sinus rhythm in patients with chronic atrial fibrillation. American Journal of Cardiology 1999;83:1629-32.
Sanoski CA, Bauman JL. Clinical observations with the amiodarone-warfarin interaction: dosing relationships with long-term therapy. Chest 2002;121:19-23.
DiDomenico RJ, Sanoski CA, Walton S, Bauman JL. Analysis of the use of digoxin immune Fab for the treatment of non-life threatening digoxin toxicity. Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Therapeutics 2000;5:77-85.
Schumock GT, Nutescu EA, Walton SM, Arondekar BV, Lewis RK. Survey of hospital practices rregarding low-molecular weight heparins. American Journal of Health System Pharmacy 2002;59:534-8.
Wang J, Moughy EB, David CJ, Humma LM, et al. Determination of human B2-adrenoceptor haplotypes by denaturation selective amplification and subtractive genotyping. American Journal of Pharmacogenomics 2001;1:315-322.
Bauman JL. The role of pharmacokinetics, pharmacogenomics and drug interactions in the acquired long QT syndrome. European Journal of Cardiology 2001;3:K93-100.
Bauman JL, DiDomenico RJ. Cocaine-induced channelopathies: emerging evidence on the multiple mechanisms of sudden cardiac death. Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Therapeutics (in press).
PAST RESEARCH FELLOWS AND SPECIALIZED RESIDENTS:
1983-84 Rick A. Barbarash, PharmD, FCCP
1984-85 Bruce J. Schrader, PharmD, FCCP
1985-86 Steven I. Berk, PharmD, MD
1986-88 Nada S. Berry, PharmD
1987-89 Patrick L. McCollam, PharmD
1987-89 Robert B. Parker, PharmD, FCCP
1988-89 Vicky L. Just, PharmD
1988-90 Marieke D. Schoen, PharmD
1989-90 Jon E. Folstad, PharmD
1990-92 Deborah Tworek Piscitelli, PharmD
1990-93 Sheila A. Roberts, PharmD
1991-93 Jeffrey J. Grawe, PharmD
1991-93 Allison P. Winecoff, PharmD
1992-94 Kristin C. Oberg, PharmD
1993-95 Bradley G. Phillips, PharmD
1994-96 Ashesh J. Gandhi, PharmD
1996-97 Mary Ross Southworth, PharmD
1996-98 Cynthia A. Sanoski, PharmD
1997-99 Robert J. DiDomenico, PharmD
2001-02 Maria Tanzi, PharmD

PAST STUDENTS AND GENERAL RESIDENTS:
1983-85
Mark Munger, PharmD, FCCP
1984-86
Tim Hoon, PharmD
1988-90
Eric Stanek, PharmD
1992-93
Dawn Bell, PharmD
1995
Dawn Zaremski
Donna Leslie
Lynette Moser