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Essentials in Clinical Pharmacokinetics - Hardcover version has been released

Monday, September 29, 2025
Recently, I released a hardcover version of my basic PK textbook. I ordered an author copy of the hardcover, and it arrived last week. It has much better paper quality than the paperback. I am happy that the material finally gets the best of care it deserves. Read more here..

A letter to readers of my advanced PK/PD book

Wednesday, September 3, 2025
When I approached Jusko for interview earlier this year, I told him that the advanced PK/PD book that I plan to write will be a course note style, and I anticipated that the readership of this book would be low. My guess was wrong. Click to read more...

Essentials in Clinical Pharmacokinetics - Book Revision History

Sunday, August 24, 2025
Errors were identified on page 60 (error in problem 8), page 71 (mismatched legend of Figure 4-5), and page 161 (error in Figure 8-5 title); these errors have been corrected on Aug 24, 2025. In addition, I added An PKPD Lab logo on page 2 and page 6 of the front matter. Clink here for the revision history table.

An interesting and lighthearted interview that I got

Wednesday, August 20, 2025
PharmD class of 2027 runs a monthly newsletter which circulates among their class members. This is creative and a great way to stay united. One component of this newsletter is faculty interviews. Last spring (in Feb 2024), they interviewed me and included the content in their March newsletter. I like those fun and lighthearted questions and would like to share some of them in this post.

Advanced PK/PD - Book revision history

Tuesday, August 12, 2025
This book was self-published via Amazon’s print on demand (POD). I make modifications whenever I find errors/typos in the book. So, it is a "living book". Readers would be able to know which version they have based on this history table and the printing date shown on the last page of the book you ordered. Clink here for the revision history table.

Essentials in Clinical Pharmacokinetics - Book Highlights

Thursday, August 7, 2025
I strongly believe that when people learn it in the right way, everyone can be good at pharmacokinetics. I have been teaching a PharmD course “Pharmacokinetics and Dose Optimization” every spring semester since 2016. After I taught this course several rounds, I developed a strong desire to write a single author pharmacokinetics (PK) textbook. I started to write this book in late January 2024. Many late nights. Many weekends. This book was brought to life in May 2024. Read more here...