About our authors

Michael Patrick Adams, PhD, is an accomplished educator, author and national speaker. The National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development in Austin, Texas, named Dr. Adams a Master Teacher. He has published two other textbooks with Pearson Education: Core Concepts in Pharmacology and Pharmacology for Nursing: A Pathophysiologic Approach. Dr. Adams obtained his master’s degree in pharmacology from Michigan State University and his doctorate in education from the University of South Florida. Dr. Adams was on the faculty of Lansing Community College and St. Petersburg College and was Dean of Health Professions at Pasco-Hernando State College for over 19 years. He is currently Adjunct Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at Hillsborough Community College.

Carol Quam Urban, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, is Director of the School of Nursing and an Associate Dean in the College of Health and Human Services at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. She has been on the faculty in the School of Nursing for over two decades and has worked with Dr. Rebecca Sutter to open three nurse-managed health clinics, academic-community partnerships that care for uninsured patients and provide educational opportunities for Mason nursing students. She has published the Pearson textbook Pharmacology for Nurses: A Pathophysiologic Approach with Dr. Adams and Dr. Holland.

Rebecca E. Sutter, DNP, BC-FNP, is Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing and one of the directors of an academic nurse-managed clinic within the College of Health and Human Services at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. She has been in the nursing faculty for over 15 years at community colleges and universities, as well as practicing for over 20 years as a pediatric ICU nurse and a board-certified family nurse practitioner.