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It was a remarkable 33 years ago that the first edition of Strom’s Pharmacoepidemiology was published. The preface to that book stated that pharmacoepidemiology was a new field with a new generation of pharmacoepidemiologists arising to join the field’s few pioneers. Over the ensuing 32 years, the field indeed has grown and no longer deserves to be called “new.” Many of those “new generation” scientists (including two of the editors of this book) are now “middle-aged” pharmacoepidemiologists. Despite its relatively brief academic life, a short history of pharmacoepidemiology and review of its current state will set the stage for the purpose of this textbook. Pharmacoepidemiology originally arose from the union of the fields of clinical pharmacology and epidemiology. Pharmacoepidemiology studies the use of and the effects of medical products in large numbers of people and applies the methods of epidemiology to the content area of clinical pharmacology. This field represents the science underlying postmarketing medical product surveillance, studies of the effects of medical products (i.e. drugs, biologicals, devices) performed after a product has been approved for use. In recent years, pharmacoepidemiology has expanded to include many other types of studies, as well. The field of pharmacoepidemiology has grown enormously since the first publication of Strom. The International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology, an early idea when the first edition of this book was written, has grown into a major international scientific force, with over 1476 members from 63 countries, an extremely successful annual meeting attracting more than 1800 attendees, a large number of very active committees and scientific interest groups, and its own journal. In addition, a number of established journals have targeted pharmacoepidemiology manuscripts as desirable. As new scientific developments occur within mainstream epidemiology, they are rapidly adopted, applied, and advanced within our field as well. We have also become institutionalized as a subfield within the field of clinical pharmacology, with scientific sections of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics and with pharmacoepidemiology a required part of the clinical pharmacology board examination.