ABSTRACT

I was a faculty member at the University of Tennessee and a colleague of Dr. Kenneth Avis when he conceived, organized, and edited (along with H.A. Lieberman and L. Lachman) the first edition of this book series that was published in 1984. It was so well received by the pharmaceutical science community that an expanded three-volume second edition was published in 1992. Dr. Avis did not survive long enough to oversee a third edition, and it was questionable whether a third edition would ever be published until two of his graduate students, Drs. Nema and Ludwig, took it upon themselves to carry on Dr. Avis’ tradition.