Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD, obtained his doctorate in science from Washington State University and pursued a postdoctoral fellowship in endocrinology and cancer research at the University of Michigan under a National Research Award from the National Cancer institute. He has published 17 studies in peer-reviewed journals. He then went on to earn his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Creighton University. For the past 26 years he has worked as a managing editor for the Drug Reference at Medscape.