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DeLon Canterbury

US Board Certified Pharmacist/PGX & Deprescribing Specialist

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  1. About
  2. Education
  3. Licensure
  4. Professional accomplishments
  5. Affiliations
  6. About our medical review process

Expertise

Deprescribing
Geriatric Medicine
Pharmacogenomics
Precision Medicine

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NCBOP number

24832

Qualifications

Pharm.D

About

Dr. DeLon Canterbury is a Board Certified Geriatric Pharmacist. He graduated from the University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy in 2014. Since then, he dedicated his career to serving low-income and rural socioeconomic populations through multiple avenues of community service and volunteerism ranging from Henderson, NC to across the Raleigh-Durham Triangle. He is recognized as “The Deprescribing Pharmacist” and Top 50 Most Influential Pharmacists in the US. He created GeriatRx as a Deprescribing and Precision Medicine consulting service for older adults and caregivers. He is a pharmacist advisor to NowPatient on areas around precision medicine and deprescribing.

Education

The University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy

Licensure

Professional accomplishments

Affiliations

  • North Carolina Board of Pharmacy (NCBOP)

About our medical review process

At NowPatient, we are committed to providing users with clear, evidence-based health and wellness information. We aim to be your most trusted source of information and to that end, our content is medically reviewed. Medical review is provided using an approved panel who have years of clinical practice and/or academic exposure.

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The Benefits of Genetic Testing for Medication

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Videos
Two white bowls are displayed; the left bowl is filled with a variety of pills and tablets in different colors and shapes, while the right bowl, indicative of deprescribing efforts, contains a smaller assortment of white pills and blue-white capsules.

Deprescribing Explained

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Two blue capsules, one opened to reveal a DNA double helix model inside, isolated on a white background, explained beautifully through the lens of pharmacogenomics.

Pharmacogenomics Explained

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