Joseph I. Boullata, PharmD, RPh, CNS-S, FASPEN, FACN, is a pharmacy specialist with Clinical Nutrition Support Services at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He received his doctorate from the University of Maryland after completing undergraduate degrees in Nutrition Science at Penn State University and in Pharmacy at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. Joe completed a residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and a nutrition support fellowship at the University of Maryland Medical System prior to being Board Certified in Nutrition Support Pharmacy for over 20 years. As a specialist in nutritional pharmacotherapy (including nutrition support and pharmaceutical nutrition), his interests include drug-nutrition interactions as well as patient safety with nutrition support.