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Dr. Evelyn Hermes-DeSantis is the director of the Drug Information Service at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and a clinical associate professor at the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.

Dr. Hermes-DeSantis has published numerous articles and a book chapter, and lectures in a variety of areas including: gastrointestinal related disorders, glaucoma, drug-induced diseases and medication errors, dietary supplements, patient counseling. In addition to these areas, her research focuses in the area of provision of drug information services and the relationship between hospital and industrial pharmacy practice.

She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Rutgers University. After completing a specialized residency in drug information practice at the Medical College of Virginia Hospital in Richmond, she practiced at the Drug Information Center at the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City. Dr. Hermes-DeSantis returned to Rutgers in 1995 to assume a faculty position there. She is also a board-certified pharmacotherapy specialist.