Gary R. Matzke, PharmD, FCP, FCCP, FASN, DPNAP is Professor of Pharmacy, Pharmaceutics, and Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University and Associate Dean for Clinical Research and Public Policy in the School of Pharmacy. He is currently the Immediate Past- President of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, a Fellow of the College and has served as an elected member of the ACCP Research Institute Board of Trustees. He is currently Chair of the Council of Faculties of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and a member of the AACP Board of Directors. He serves as Chair of the Nephrology & Urology expert committee of the United States Pharmacopeia and a member of the USP Medicare Model Guidelines Expert Committee. He is an elected distinguished practioneer of the National Academy of Practice, co-chair of the Pharmacy section, and a member of its Public Policy committee. He was a Congressional Fellow from 2003-2005 in the offices of United States Senator Judd Gregg 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).
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.
During his career has mentored 15 post-doctoral research fellows, three PhD clinical scientists and four healthcare policy fellows.
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.