 Dr.
Bruce C. Carleton
Professor,
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University
of British Columbia
Director,
Pharmaceutical Outcomes Programme, Children's
and Women's Health Centre of British Columbia,
Provincial Health Services Authority
Senior Clinician Scientist, Child & Family
Research Institute
Genome BC Project Leader
Dr. Carleton earned his Bachelor degree
in pharmaceutical sciences in 1986 from
Washington State University. He continued
at the University of Utah, earning a Doctor
of Pharmacy degree in 1989. After completing
a residency in clinical therapeutics at
the University of Utah Medical Center and
a research fellowship in experimental pharmacotherapeutics
at the University of Minnesota, he joined
the faculty at the University of British
Columbia in 1991.
Dr.
Carleton is also cross-appointed to the
Children's and Women's Health Centre of
British Columbia where he has served as
director of the Pharmaceutical Outcomes
Research Programme since 1994. He holds
appointments at UBC in the Faculty of Medicine,
Department of Paediatrics and the Centre
for Health Services and Policy Research.
He is an adjunct associate professor at
the School of Health Information Science
at University of Victoria.
The
central theme of Dr. Carleton's research
program is the study of drug therapy with
the goal of improving human health and quality
of life. He is particularly interested in
the development of models for the evaluation
of the effectiveness of drugs on health
outcomes, medication use models designed
to improve patient health, and the development
of effective and pragmatic surveillance
systems to improve the safe use of medication.
Dr. Carleton has a particular clinical interest
in asthma and the clinical use of drugs in
children. Another key area of interest is
in the epidemiology and clinical management
of adverse drug events.
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