Robert Shrewsbury, PhD, has been elected to serve a second five-year term on the Compounding Expert Committee of the United States Pharmacopeial Convention. The USP publishes the U.S. Pharmacopeia and National Formulary, which sets standards for prescription and over-the-counter drugs and other health-care products sold in the United States and in many other countries.
Shrewsbury is an associate professor in the Division of Practice Advancement and Clinical Education at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has served as an expert on the USP Compounding Committee since 2010.
Since he joined the School in 1980, Shrewsbury has written numerous textbooks and more than 100 articles on the subject of compounding, which is the pharmacy specialty of making dosage forms to meet individual patient needs.
He also built and maintains a national and international website for compounding; more than 40 percent of the website users are from international sites.
Shrewsbury received his BS in pharmacy from the University of Oklahoma in 1972 and his PhD from the University of Kentucky in 1977. He was given the School’s Overall Instructor of the Year Award in 2014.