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Laboratory of Pharmacy Practice and Sciences

Brushing up clinical inference skills for practicing knowledge and theory-based pharmaceutical care.

Pharmacy practice integrates the pharmaceutical sciences with the professional roles of pharmacists. We are mainly focusing on solving the pharmacotherapy-related problems encountered by pharmacists through a pharmacokinetic approach. It includes clinical research in pediatric and elderly patients. Clinical pharmacokinetic study with less blood sampling design and/or modeling and simulation analysis helps compensate for missing clinical evidence to improve the quality of pharmaceutical care for these populations. We also focus on educational research including recurrent programs aiming at fostering special pharmacist in terms of both clinical inference skills and ability to get things done. It will support providing pharmaceutical care service and research activities by local pharmacists.

Research Topics

  1. Optimization of drug therapy in pediatric and/or elderly patients based on the development of predictive model for patient’s physiological function.

  2. Mechanisms of the pharmacokinetic variability in children with congenital heart disease.

  3. Exploration of community pharmacy-based drug monitoring and its use for preventing drug-related morbidity.

Lab Members

Masato Taguchi

Professor

Degree
Ph.D.
Research Areas
Clinical Pharmacokinetics, Pharmaceutical Education