About
MyStudies arose from a collaboration between James McCormack, a pharmacy professor at UBC in Vancouver, and Pascal Pfiffner, a Swiss MD, PhD with a knack for technology.
James McCormack
Dr. James McCormack received his undergraduate pharmacy degree at the University of British Columbia in 1982 and completed a hospital pharmacy residency program at Lion’s Gate Hospital in North Vancouver in 1984. He received his doctorate in pharmacy (Pharm.D.) in 1986 from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina.
He has had extensive experience, both locally and internationally, talking to health professionals and consumers about the rational use of medication, has presented over 300 seminars on drug therapy over the last 20 years. His focus is shared-informed decision-making using evidence based information and rational therapeutic principles. In addition, he has published over 100 articles in the medical literature, mainly in the area of rational drug therapy and has been an editor for two internationally recognized textbooks on appropriate/rational drug therapy. He is also the co-host of a very popular weekly podcast called the Therapeutics Education Collaboration (TEC) podcast. It can be found at therapeuticseducation.org or in the iTunes store.
Pascal Pfiffner
Dr. Pascal Pfiffner is a research fellow at Boston Children's Hospital, working on personally controlled health records and substitutable medical EHR apps. He completed medical school at the University of Bern, Switzerland, in 2007 where he also received his doctorate in medicine and philosophy (MD, PhD) in 2011.
His interest in mobile medical apps is underscored by his role as lead developer for MedCalc, a medical calculator for iOS, and two smaller projects, Eponyms, an iOS flashcard-like application for medical eponyms, and KidneyCalc, a renal dosage adjustment calculator.
Attribution
This website makes use of several fantastic software modules:
- jQuery by the jQuery Foundation
- Haanga by César D. Rodas and Ricardo Galli
- Stripe for payment processing
- Moment.js for displaying dates