An Exploration of the Confluence between Pharmacogenomics and the Medication Experience

Dear Colleagues,

Both pharmacogenomics (PGx) and the medication experience (MedXp) seek to understand how persons respond to medications to inform therapeutic choices that are best suited to the individual. While PGx utilizes an individual’s genetic makeup to guide medication dose and selection, the MedXp accounts for the individual’s subjective experience of taking a medication in their daily life. Neither approach will achieve their common goal without consideration of the other, and thus the sooner they cross paths, the better.

This Special Issue, titled An Exploration of the Confluence between Pharmacogenomics and the Medication Experience, aims to highlight connectivity between these two fields and accelerate their joint incorporation in pharmacist practice.  We invite the submission of manuscripts on this topic to this Special Issue in Pharmacy, an open access, scholarly journal of pharmacy education and practice. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: (1) how PGx affects the meaning, utility, and lived experience of taking daily medications; (2) approaches, techniques, and strategies that connect PGx and MedXp within pharmacy curricula; (3) opportunities and challenges for implementing pharmacist practice that integrates PGx and MedXp; (4) synergistic factors of PGx and MedXp for mediating or enhancing medication adherence; (5) the role of PGx and MedXp in person-centered, pharmaceutical care; (6) ethical considerations and implications of using PGx with MedXp to inform guidelines for care, shared decision making for therapeutics, and policy; (7) the use of PGx and MedXp to promote health equity and eliminate health disparities across key factors such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, socioeconomic status, and geographic location; and (8) epistemological synergies and tensions between PGx and MedXp. We seek papers of all types, including [a] reviews, [b] research articles, [c] policy and practice briefs, [d] case and demonstration studies, [e] original research articles.

There are opportunities for a discounted article processing fee, the applications for which will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. If more than 10 papers are published in the Special Issue, the publisher will print a book edition available in both digital format (for free) and paperback copies (ordered via Amazon) on the MDPI platform (http://books.mdpi.com).

Dr. Anthony W. Olson
Dr. Jacob T. Brown
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Pharmacy is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.