Stephen M. Setter
Associate Professor
PO Box 1495
Washington State University
Spokane, WA 99210-1495
(509) 358-7730 (phone)
(509) 358-7744 (fax)
Education: B.Pharm (WSU, 1995) D.V.M. (Michigan State University, 1986), B.S. (Michigan State University, 1981) Pharm.D. (WSU, 1996)
Expertise: Geriatrics
Description: Dr. Setter's interests center on health problems found in older adults. This includes diabetes, osteoporosis, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and rheumatoid arthritis. He has reviewed the impact of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) on older adults and written for professional journals on prescribing safer NSAIDs. Additionally, he is interested in the pharmaceutical care of home-dwelling older adults from both a practice and clinical perspective. This includes examining drug related issues, neuropsychiatric disorders, and Type II diabetes in community-dwelling elders.
Special projects that he is involved with include providing and teaching pharmaceutical care in an ambulatory geriatric setting and he is active in a city-wide effort to decrease NSAID-related gastrointestinal disease in older adults.
Setter is a Clinical Pharmacy Consultant, Elder Services / Visiting Nurses Association of Spokane. He also is a member of the WSU Geriatrics Research Team.
Dr. Setter completed a post-graduate fellowship in geriatric pharmacy at Washington State University in 1997 and in 2000, he became one of only 10 Certified Geriatric Pharmacists in the state of Washington.