Biography

Cydney E. McQueen, Pharm.D., is a clinical professor in the Division of Pharmacy Practice and Administration at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Pharmacy. She completed a two-year fellowship in natural product research at UMKC and specializes in evidence-based dietary supplement information. Teaching responsibilities focus on evidence-based therapeutic use of dietary supplements, sterile and non-sterile compounding, patient counseling, and self-care.

Dr. McQueen is a contributor/reviewer on dietary supplement and complementary and alternative medicine topics for several references, pharmacy textbooks, and professional journals. She has edited Sigler’s Dietary Supplement Drug Cards and Pharmaceutical Care with Dietary Supplements: Concepts and Common Sense, a textbook on appropriate therapeutic use of dietary supplements. She has contributed to chapters on herbal and non-herbal supplements for several editions of the Handbook of Nonprescription Drugs as well as to various books on evidence-based medicine and drug information. Specific areas of interest include development of educational materials, evaluation of dietary supplement information resource quality, and adverse event and interaction analysis and reporting.