Biography of Amadeo J. Pesce
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Amadeo J Pesce received his BS in Biology from MIT, Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Brandeis University, and received an NIH postdoctoral fellowship to study Biophysics at the University of Illinois at Urbana. He received a five year American Heart Association Established Investigator Award to do research in renal disease. He holds Professor Emeritus status from the University of Cincinnati, having served there from 1972 to 2005, including duties as the Director of the University Hospital Toxicology Laboratory from 1982-1997. He has collaborated with more than 50 investigators on a wide variety of projects. Under his direction the laboratory had focussed on developing new or improved methods to measure drugs to improve patient care, to support clinical trials, or to measure the effectiveness of drugs. He is currently serving as Laboratory Director at Millenium Laboratories in San Diego, California. |
| Because of his recognized expertise in this field, in 1997
Dr. Pesce along with Dr. Ann Warner and Catherine Hammett-Stabler were the organizers of
the publication, Standards of Laboratory Practice: Therapeutic Drug Monitoring
(NACB, 1998) sponsored by the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry. This
collaborative effort has set the guidelines for therapeutic monitoring. In 1979 Dr. Pesce started a writing and editorial collaboration with Dr. Lawrence Kaplan. They are responsible for the acclaimed textbook Clinical Chemistry: Theory, Analysis and Correlation (Mosby, 1984, 1989, 1996) as well as two editions of the accompanying Workbook and Study Guide (Pesce Kaplan, 1985, 1989). They also produced the successful reference text Methods in Clinical Chemistry (Mosby, 1987). |
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