Sophie Chung

Experience

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  Various community pharmacies

  Jul 2000 - Oct 2004

  Pharmacist

  • Dispensed medications, and advised patients regarding drug interactions, side effects, dosage and proper medication storage.

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  University of Washington

  Mar 2005 - Jul 2013

  • Promoted to lead all retrieval and analysis of literature on Drug-Drug Interactions (DDIs) for the University of Washington Metabolism and Transport Drug Interaction Database.• Authored monthly newsletter for users including US and European regulatory agencies, international distributors, pharmaceutical scientists, and academic personnel.• Synthesized complex information from published clinical trials, reviews, FDA product labels, NDAs, and EMA Summary of Product Characteristics to create drug information monographs. • Reviewed pharmacogenetic summaries and participated in validation of e-PKgene content, a database on the impact of genetic variants of enzymes and transporters on the pharmacokinetics of drugs. Show less

  • Database Content Specialist

    Oct 2009 - Jul 2013

  • Research Scientist

    Mar 2005 - Sept 2009
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  Epocrates

  Jul 2013 - Feb 2015

  Editor, Drug Interactions

  Responsible for Drug Interaction content development, definitions, research, and validation

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  Epocrates, Inc.

  Feb 2015 - now

  Lead Editor, Drug Interactions

  • Consolidates Drug Interactions philosophies (enzyme and transporter-based, pharmacodynamic drug interactions (e.g., QT prolongation risk))• Contributes to editorial Standards and workflow processes• Trains new PharmD editors• Translates published case reports of drug interactions into Quizzes for clinicians