Gary R. Matzke, Pharm.D., FCP, FCCP Director
Gary R. Matzke, PharmD, FCP, FCCP joined the Virginia Commonwealth University as
the Associate Dean for Clinical Research and Public Policy of the School of Pharmacy
in November of 2005. Prior to that he served as a Health Policy Fellow for Senator
Judd Gregg for two years while the Senator was Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee
on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (2003-2004) and the U.S. Senate Budget
Committee (2005). His Congressional Science Fellowships have been sponsored by the
American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and American Association for the Advancement
of Science. During this time he has been responsible for a multiplicity of health
care issues including; Pharmaceutical compounding, Importation of prescription drugs,
Regulation of Internet Pharmacy activities, Clinical trials registry and access
to clinical trial results, and health professions education. He also served as one
of the staff group leaders for the Senate Republican Task Force on Health Care Costs
and the Uninsured.
Prior to joining Virginia Commonwealth University he held an academic appointment
at the University of Pittsburgh as a Professor of Pharmacy and Therapeutics in the
School of Pharmacy and Professor of Medicine in the Renal and Electrolyte Division
of the Department of Medicine of the School of Medicine. The focus of his academic
career has been on the development of new knowledge regarding the pharmacokinetics,
efficacy and safety of medications in patients with renal and hepatic disease.
He received his baccalaureate pharmacy degree from the University of Wisconsin,
School of Pharmacy in 1973 and his doctor of pharmacy degree from the University
of Minnesota, College of Pharmacy in 1977. His initial academic appointment was
as an Assistant Professor at Wayne State University. In the fall of 1980 he joined
the faculty of the University of Minnesota, College of Pharmacy and was promoted
to full Professor in 1987. From 1989 to 1991 he was Vice Chair and Professor of
the Division of Pharmacy Practice at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
School of Pharmacy. He joined the faculty of the Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine
of the University of Pittsburgh in the fall of 1991 where he has served as Director,
Clinical Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate Program, Co-Director, Clinical Research
Training Program, and a member of the Center for Clinical Pharmacology and Center
for Research in Health Care, of the Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine.
Dr. Matzke’s clinical therapeutic research interests/expertise include development
of drug therapy individualization strategies for patients with acute and chronic
renal and hepatic insufficiency. The results of pharmacokinetic studies he has directed
have provided the scientific basis for FDA labeling for drug dosing for over 25
medications.
Dr. Matzke is committed to the education/training of future clinicians and researchers.
His academic/educational commitments include serving as course director or coordinator
of graduate courses such as; clinical trial design, clinical trial implementation,
clinical pharmacokinetics and disease and drug effects on pharmacokinetics and dynamics.
During his career has mentored 14 post-doctoral fellows and three PhD clinical scientists.
He is an elected fellow of American College of Clinical Pharmacology and American
College of Clinical Pharmacy.
Dr. Matzke has published over 150 peer reviewed manuscripts and 40 book chapters.
He also has edited 10 books including six editions of Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiological
Approach. He is manuscript reviewer for several prestigious pharmacy and medical
journals and has served on the Editorial Board of the Annals of Pharmacotherapy,
the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy,
and the American Journal of Kidney Disease. In recognition of these contributions
to the profession he received the Russell R. Miller award from the ACCP Pharmacy
in 1995 and the ASHP Foundation award for sustained contribution to the Literature
of Pharmacy in 2000.