Pharmaceutical Sciences, at the University of California, San Diego. His publications span several areas of
pharmaceutical medicine, for example, regulation, pharmacology, clinical trials, pharmacovigilance,
analgesics, migraine, genotoxicology, and metabolism, and he is named as inventor on several patents.
He is on the editorial boards of several journals, and serves in a more senior capacity for two of them. Tony is
proud to be an Essex man, researches the history of that County, and has been elected as a fellow of the Royal
Geographical and the Royal Numismatic Societies.
PETER D. STONIER, BA, BSc, PhD, MBChB, MRCPsych, FRCP, FRCPE, FFPM has 29 years
experience in pharmaceutical medicine. He is a graduate of Manchester Medical School, qualifying in
1974, following a BSc degree in physiology (University of Birmingham) and a PhD in protein chemistry
(University of Sheffield). He is a pharmaceutical physician and was Medical Adviser with the UK Hoechst
Group of companies from 1977, serving as Medical Director and Board Director until 2000. Currently, he is
Director of Education and Training of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine, Royal Colleges of
Physicians of the UK. He is Medical Director of Amdipharm Plc, and of Medical Resource Provider
Axess Ltd. Formerly, he was President of the International Federation of Associations of Pharmaceutical
Physicians (IFAPP) and Chairman of the British Association of Pharmaceutical Physicians. He is a past-
President of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine of the Royal Colleges of Physicians, UK. He is Visiting
Professor in pharmaceutical medicine at the University of Surrey, which under his direction introduced the
first MSc degree in Pharmaceutical Medicine in 1993, which is now part of the Postgraduate Medical School
of the University. His publications include edited works in human psychopharmacology, pharmaceutical
medicine, clinical research, medical marketing, and careers in the pharmaceutical industry. He is a member
of the Association of Pharmaceutical Physicans and Investigators (APPI). Professor Stonier has been elected
a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
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