I graduated from the UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences in 1992, making the Dean's list in my graduating year.

I worked with Overwaitea/Save-On-Foods Pharmacy in the British Columbia lower mainland and Kelowna, BC for a year before doing a residency in hospital pharmacy in 1993-94 at Vancouver General Hospital.  Upon finishing the residency program, I continued to work at VGH as a clinical pharmacist for approximately 3 years. My areas
of specialty at VGH were respiratory and gastrointestinal medicine.

I worked as a clinical pharmacist at the Richmond Hospital from October 1997 to July 2006, at Vancouver General Hospital My area of specialty was psychiatry. In October 2001, I completed the Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties Board Certification in Psychiatric Pharmacy (BCPP), and was re-certified in 2008. I returned to VGH from July 2006-October 2007 as their information systems coordinator. In October 2007, I was lucky enough to obtain a position at BC Children's Hospital as a full-time clinical pharmacy specialist in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. I was named section editor of the Psychopharmacology Section of the Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in September 2008.

I am a past-president of the Pharmacy Division of the UBC Alumni Association. Special interests in pharmacy practice include: psychiatry, drug information research, pharmacy services that take advantage of the internet and new media, and drug-nutrient interactions (especially grapefruit juice-drug interactions !)

My initial work on the drug-nutrient interaction project has served me well. I have been approached regularly to discuss this topic in various forums; an international health conference, television (CBC's 50/up), radio (The Doctor Is In with Dr. Don Nixdorf), in print (march 1998 issue of BC Pharmacy magazine), and now on the world wide web.  This site was featured on the Time.com website in June, 1998. It has now received over 230,000 hits in just over 7 years on the web. It was also featured on HealthScout and a CBS channel 2000 special report, The CBC Health Show,  the Ask Dr. Bob website, and RxList.com. 

Reference guide to Drug & Nutrient Interactions. 1993.  Louise Bell, ed. Vancouver: British Columbia Dietitians' and Nutritionists' Association and the British Columbia Pharmacy Association.
This book was the spark for my continuing involvement in the area of drug-nutrient interactions, including this grapefruit juice-drug interactions home page.  I would like to thank Doug Danforth, B.Sc.(Pharm.), Diane Allen, B.H.E., R.D.N., Louise Bell, B.A., M.Sc., Janet Webb, B.Sc.(Pharm), M.Sc. and Larry Lynd, B.S.P. for help with compiling and editing the information in the manual.

Elbe D, Frighetto L, Nickoloff D, Jewesson P.  A Survey of Prescriber Perceptions and Practice of  IV-PO Stepdown Anti-Infective Therapy. Canadian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy 1996;49: 244-251.
the first part of my residency project at VGH.

Elbe D, Frighetto L, Nickoloff D, Jewesson P. Use of cefixime in an IV to oral stepdown program to reduce antimicrobial costs. Formulary 1998; 33: 54-63.
The second part of my residency project at VGH.

Elbe, D. Drug Commentary: Grapefruit juice-drug interactions.  BC Pharmacy 1998; 7: 18-9.
The mirror article to this website was published in BC Pharmacy.

McCollom RA, Elbe DHT, Ritchie AH. Bupropion-induced serum sickness-like reaction. Ann Pharmacother 2000; 34: 471-3. PubMed Citation

Elbe D, Conde C. Visual Compatability of Various Injectable Neuroleptic Agents with Benztropine and Lorazepam in Polypropylene Syringes.  Canadian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy 2001; 54: 102-3.
This article concerns the compatibility of various psychiatric medications in syringes, done in an effort to look at the ability to reduce the number of injections required to be administered in psychiatric emergencies. This is beneficial for both patients and staff. 

Elbe DHT, Chang SW. Moxifloxacin-Warfarin interaction: A series of five case reports. Ann Pharmacother 2005: 39: 361-4. PubMed Citation 

Elbe DHT, Carandang, C. Focus on Ziprasidone: a review of its use in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. J Can Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2008; 17: 220-9. Pubmed Citation

Elbe DHT. Commentary to QTc Prolongation Associated With Atypical Antipsychotic Use in the Treatment of Adolescent-Onset Anorexia Nervosa. J Can Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2009; 18: 64. PubMed Citation 

Along with a company called Food-Medication Interactions, we have published three editions of software for palm OS and pocket PC PDAs regarding Food-Medication Interactions.