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with athletes in four major professional sports. He currently works with the Detroit Tigers and Los Angeles Angels for baseball and the USA Men’s National Team for basketball. In 2008, he joined the U.S. Olympic Team at the Summer Olympics in Beijing to coordinate management of distribution records and direct interactions with athletes. Pavlovich noted that by the late 1990s, pharmacists were providing medication management software tools to track usage. Athletic teams’ medical and training staff would use the information to streamline their work, and a demand for pharmacists’ services began. During the mid-2000s, steroid and doping controversies among baseball players, professional cyclists, and Olympic athletes provided compelling reasons for teams and medical personnel to track and monitor drug usage. Banned substances Not every sport has the same banned substances, explained Anthony J. Longo, PharmD, director of pharmacy and clinical services at Zucker Hillside Hospital in Queens, NY, and adjunct professor of pharmacology at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY, who has worked with endurance cyclists. In fact, banned drug lists change from league to league, said Peter Ambrose, PharmD, professor of clinical pharmacy at the University of California, San Francisco College of Pharmacy, who conducted drug testing for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Olympics. “If you’re a basketball player, the banned substances are different for the NCAA, the Olympics,
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