George L. Drusano, M.D. served as chief resident at the University of Maryland Hospital and became a tenured professor in 1992. Dr. Drusano currently serves as director of clinical pharmacology and associate director of the clinical research institute at Albany Medical College. Dr. Drusano is a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. He has served on the program committee of the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), and has served as pharmacology editor for the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. He has served as president of the International Society for Anti-infective Pharmacology (ISAP). He was the recipient of the Rhone-Poulenc Award (1991) for the most innovative research with fluoroquinolones. He was also the recipient of the American Society of Health System Pharmacy Research and Education Foundation Drug Therapy Research Award for outstanding contribution to the scientific pharmaceutical literature (1998). He currently reviews for several scientific journals, including the Journal of the American Medical Association, the New England Journal of Medicine and the Annals of Internal Medicine. He is a consultant for over 20 companies in the pharmaceutical industry. Dr. Drusano received a bachelor's degree in physics magna cum laude from Boston College. Dr. Drusano received a M.D., cum laude from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. |