Dr. Patrick Gurley, PharmD, MSCN sits down with Dr. Bill Gurley Ph.D. Dr. Gurley is a professor and Principal Scientist, at the National Center for Natural Products Research (NCNPR), School of Pharmacy, University of Mississippi; Chair of the University of Mississippi Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. Prior to joining the NCNPR in 2019, Gurley was Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Pharmacy, Vice-Chair of the UAMS Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Chair of the UAMS Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. Gurley has been conducting basic and clinical research on various aspects of dietary supplement efficacy and safety for almost 30 years. His research on Ephedra-containing dietary supplements was used by the FDA to remove those problematic products from the U.S. market in 2004. He was the first investigator to systematically evaluate the herb-drug interaction potential of popular dietary supplements and to assess their clinical relevance. Accordingly, his research team was the first to document the serious clinical repercussions of herb-drug interactions involving St. John’s wort. Gurley’s research interests include pharmacokinetics, mechanisms of herb-drug interactions, toxicity of multiple-component herbal dietary supplements, phytochemical modulation of human drug metabolizing enzymes/transport proteins, and human phytochemical disposition, all of which have been the subject of more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific publications. He is a member of the United States Pharmacopoeia’s Expert Panel on Dietary Supplements, an advisor to the American Botanical Council, and a co-editor of the American Herbal Products Association’s Botanical Safety Handbook. He sits on the editorial boards for the journals Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Phytomedicine, HerbalGram, and Clinical Therapeutics. Gurley received a B.S. in Chemistry from Tennessee Technological University and a B.S. in Pharmacy and Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.