Paul J. Perry

Biography

Dr Perry graduated from pharmacy school at the University of the Pacific in 1969. He received his PhD in Pharmacy from Pacific in 1973. He went to the University of Iowa in 1973 as an assistant professor in the College of Pharmacy. He was one of the founding faculty for the Clinical Pharmacy program at Iowa. He remained at Iowa for the next 32 years. During this time he developed a national and international reputation for his research in clinical psychopharmacology. He has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications. His clinical reference book the Psychotropic Drug Handbook is in its 8th edition. He is currently an emeritus professor of pharmacy and psychiatry in the Colleges of Pharmacy and Medicine respectively at the University of Iowa. He returned to California in 2005 to become one of the founding faculty for Touro Univeristy-California College of Pharmacy. He is currently professor and chairman of the Pharmacy Practice Department at Touro. He is also a member of the Medi-Cal Drug Use Board after serving on the Medicaid Drug Utilization Commission in Iowa for 14 years. He co-teaches and precepts an APPE in Forensic Toxicology. He has served as an expert witness for civil and criminal forensic cases since 1975.

Research Interest

Clinical psychopharmacology, Clinical Pharmacy.