Dr. Bussey obtained his B.S. in Pharmacy from the University of Georgia and his Pharm.D. (with concurrent residency in Internal Medicine) from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. He is a Fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, the American College of Chest Physicians, and the Hypertension Research Section of the American Heart Association. He recently was elected a Distinguished Practitioner in the National Academies of Practice. He has over 100 publications, is on the editorial board for Pharmacotherapy, and serves as a reviewer for several pharmacy and medical journals. His research is clinically focused and was instrumental in the adoption of the INR for warfarin monitoring in North America. Currently, he is a Professor in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Texas at Austin, serves as the clinical director of the Anticoagulation Clinics of North America, and is co-founder of ClotCare.com . Dr. Bussey also serves on the American College of Chest Physicians Consensus Conference on Antithrombotic Therapy and the College of American Pathologists Consensus Conference on Anticoagulation Monitoring.