Adjunct Professor
University of Florida
Richard is currently an Adjunct Professor, Center for Pharmacometrics and Systems Pharmacology, Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, and a consultant to the pharmaceutical industry. He was previously at Pfizer for 19 years and served as Vice President and Global Head of Clinical Pharmacology for the last 11 years of his tenure, until he retired in 2017. Prior to joining Pfizer, he was Scientific Director and Head of Clinical Pharmacology at Phoenix International in Montreal from 1991 to 1998. From 1984 to 1991 he was Assistant Professor and then a tenured Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, University of Tennessee, Memphis. Richard is a Fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology, the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists and the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. He was President of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT) in 2011 – 2012 and a member of its Board of Directors from 2010 to 2013. In 2021, Richard was recipient of the Oscar Hunter Career Award in Therapeutics from ASCPT. He also received the Gary Neil Prize for Innovation in Drug Development from ASCPT in 2017 and the International Society of Pharmacometrics Leadership Award in 2014. He has been a member of the editorial board of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics since 2005 (Associate Editor 2007-2010). He served on the National Advisory General Medical Sciences Council at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD from 2013 – 2016. Richard has been an invited speaker at various national and international meetings of professional societies, universities, and governmental/regulatory agencies in the US (FDA & NIH), Europe (EMA), Japan (PMDA) and China (CFDA). Richard is a graduate of the University of Minnesota (Pharm.D.) and the University of Toronto (B.Sc. Pharmacy).
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