Gail Anderson
 

Education

Education: BS in Pharmacy, MS in Pharmacy Practice and PhD in Pharmaceutics, University of Washington

Research Interests

  • treatment issues in patients with neurotrauma or epilepsy
  • drug interactions and pharmacokinetics in women and children
  • Drug interactions with alternative treatments

Courses Taught

  • Pceut 405: Clinical Pharmacokinetics
  • Pharm 562: Therapeutic III
  • Pharm 410:  Pharmacy and Women’s Health

Experience

Dr. Anderson completed a fellowship in Clinical Pharmacokinetics at the State University of New York at Buffalo, New York and an NIH training fellowship at the Regional Epilepsy center at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. She has been an investigator on numerous federal and industry funded research grants and is author of over fifty peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Anderson is active in various Pharmacy and Epilepsy professional organizations including the American Epilepsy Society and the Epilepsy Foundation of Washington.

Selected Publications

Anderson GD. A mechanistic approach to antiepileptic drug interactions. Annal Pharmacotherapy 1998;32:554-563

Temkin NR, Jarell AB, Anderson GD.  Antiepileptogenic agents: How close are we? Drugs 2001;61:1045-1055.

Anderson GD.  Sex differences in drug metabolism: Cytochrome P450 and UDP glucuronoysltranasferase, J Gender Specific Medicine 2001;5:25-33

Anderson GD. Children vs. Adults: Pharmacokinetic and adverse effect differences.  Epilepsia. 2002;43 Suppl 3:53-59.

McAuley JW, Anderson GD. Treatment of epilepsy in women of reproductive age: pharmacokinetic considerations. Clin Pharmacokinet 2002;41(8):559-79.

Ethell BT, Anderson GD, Burchell B.  The effect of valproic acid on drug and steroid glucuronidation by expressed human UDP-glucuronosyltransferases. Biochem Pharmacol 2003;65:1141-1449.

Stehman-Breen C, Anderson GD  Gipson D, Ott-Ralph S. Pharmacokinetics of  Oral Micronized b-Estradiol in Postmenopausal Women with End-Stage Renal  Disease.  Kidney Internal 2003;64:290-294.

Anderson GD, Rosito G, Mohustsy MA, Elmer GW. Interaction potential of soy extract and panax ginseng.  J Clin Pharmacol 2003;43:643-648.

Anderson GD, Temkin NR, Chandler WL, Winn HR. Effect of valproate on hemostatic function in patients with traumatic brain injury.  Epilepsy Research 2003:57:111-119.

Anderson GD, Odegard PS. Pharmacokinetics of estrogen and progesterone in chronic kidney disease.  Adv Renal Replac Ther 2004; 11; 4:357-360.

Anderson GD.Pharmacogenetics and Enzyme Induction/Inhibition Properties of the Antiepileptic Drugs.  Neurology 2004;63(Suppl 4):S3-S8.

Anderson GD.  Sex and Racial Differences in Pharmacological Response: Where is the Evidence? Pharmacogenetics, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. J Women's Health 2005;14:19-29.

Anderson GD, Elmer GW, Kantor ED, Templeton IE, Vitiello MW. Pharmacokinetics of valerenic acid after administration of valerian in healthy subjects. Phytotherapy Research 2005;19:801-803.

Szot P, White SS, Shen DD, Anderson GD. Valproic acid, but not lamotrigine, suppresses seizure-induced c-fos and c-jun mRNA expression.  Mol Brain Research 2005;135:285-289.

Anderson GD:  Pregnancy induced changes in pharmacokinetics: a mechanistic based approach.  Clin Pharmacokinetics 2005:10:1-19.

Mohustsky MA, Anderson GD, Miller JW, Elmer GW.  Ginkgo bilboa: evaluation of CYP2C9 drug interactions in vitro and in vivo. Am J Ther 2006;13:24-31.

Li M, Anderson GD, Phillips B, Kong W, Shen DD, Wang J:  Interactions of amoxicillin and cefaclor with human renal organic anion and peptide transporters.  Drug Metab Disposit, in press. 

 


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Adjunct Professor of Pharmaceutics and Neurological Surgery

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