Expert Medical Authors and Reviewers Team
Alan Carter, PharmD
Dr. Alan Carter, Pharm.D. is a clinical pharmacist, researcher, and academic based in Kansas City, MO. He is a recognized expert in diabetes management, pharmacovigilance, and the drug cold supply chain. As the lead medical reviewer for our Online Pharmacy Review & Comparison Service, Dr. Carter ensures all evaluated platforms meet rigorous clinical safety and FDA accreditation standards.
Professional Overview
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Pharmacy, UMKC
Professional Experience
Certifications & Licenses
- • Licensed Pharmacist – Kansas Board of Pharmacy & Missouri Board of Pharmacy
- • Certified Immunizing Pharmacist – American Pharmacists Association (APhA)
- • Certified Smoking Cessation Specialist
- • HIPAA Privacy Officer Certification
Awards & Honors
Awarded for accomplishments achieving national recognition, specifically for groundbreaking insulin concentration research.
NIH Research Involvement
- • Principal Investigator (2015-2018) – NIH NINDS BRAIN Initiative for Neurological Drug Development
- • Principal Investigator – NIH-NCATS Drug Substance Development and Manufacture contracts
- • Led chemistry teams in developing novel green chemistry routes for drug manufacturing scale-up
- • Managed formulation development and Investigational New Drug (IND) dose design for Phase 1 clinical trials
- • Led large and small molecular entity assay and evaluation teams
Landmark Research Findings
Insulin Cold Supply Chain Study (2017)
Carter's most significant research involved randomly purchasing insulin vials from pharmacies and discovering that:
- • None of the 18 vials tested met FDA minimum standards (95 U/ml)
- • Insulin concentrations ranged from 13.9 to 94.2 U/ml (mean 40.2 U/ml)
- • Suggested the cold supply chain negatively impacts insulin concentrations more than previously anticipated
- • Generated significant discussion and follow-up studies in the diabetes community
Selected Publications (20+ Total)
Landmark study finding insulin concentrations ranging from 13.9-94.2 U/ml, with no vial meeting the 95 U/ml minimum standard.
Areas of Expertise
Clinical
- • Diabetes management
- • Pain management
- • Neurology
- • Oncology
- • Immunizations
Research
- • Insulin quality/cold chain
- • Biosimilar/biologic therapies
- • Analytical chemistry (LC/MS)
- • Pharmacovigilance
- • Drug safety evaluation
Administrative
- • PBM formulary development
- • Clinical prior authorization
- • HIPAA compliance
- • Contract negotiation
- • Supply chain evaluation
Professional Affiliations
- • University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Pharmacy – Adjunct Faculty
- • Phi Lambda Sigma Pharmacy Leadership Society
- • Pharmacy Foundation Board (UMKC) – Board Member
- • Kansas Diabetes Action Council – Past Chair (2008-2012)
- • Chronic Disease Alliance of Kansas – Inaugural Chair (2012-2020)
- • Children's Mercy Family Health Partners – Formulary Committee
- • Humana Medicare Part D Plans – Formulary Committee
Media Coverage
- • KCUR 89.3 (NPR Kansas City) – "Kansas City Researcher Asks: Does Insulin Lose Quality On Its Way To Patients?" (March 2018)
- • American Journal of Managed Care (AJMC) – Multiple video interviews on insulin pricing and biosimilars (2017)
- • Featured in national diabetes and pharmacy publications regarding insulin supply chain research
Dr Ross Walker
Dr Ross Walker has a medical practice in Lindfield on the upper north shore of Sydney. He provides a service in all aspects of echocardiography, focusing on stress echocardiography which is a well accepted, accurate method for assessing heart disease, not involving irradiation or injections. There are presently no other stress echo services on the upper North Shore. Dr Walker commenced stress echocardiography in 1992 and has since performed over 50,000 studies & 80,000 transthoracic echocardiograms. Stress echocardiography provides much more information to the practitioner than stress testing alone. Dr Walker introduced coronary calcium scoring into Australia in 1999 in conjunction with the Sydney Adventist Hospital. His other area of expertise is in the field of preventative cardiology and he has also commenced a related service in arterial screening, which is an indirect measure of endothelial function and arterial stiffness, and does not involve irradiation or injections. Dr Walker has published 7 best selling books on preventative cardiology and lectures both nationally and internationally on this subject.
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