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News from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Stephanie
Gardner, Pharm.D., Ed.D., Is Interim Dean of College of Pharmacy
APRIL 18, 2003
| An authority on medicines for heart
disease is the new interim dean of the
College of Pharmacy at the University of
Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
UAMS Chancellor I. Dodd Wilson, M.D.,
announced the appointment of Stephanie
Gardner, Pharm.D., Ed.D., today. Dr.
Gardner will take office May 1, succeeding
Dean and Vice Chancellor Larry D. Milne,
Ph.D., who became vice chancellor for
academic affairs and research
administration at UAMS last year.
"Dr.
Gardner's expertise in interdisciplinary
education at academic health centers and
her extensive experience in the College of
Pharmacy as a professor and a department
chair make her eminently qualified to lead
the College of Pharmacy during this
interim. We are very pleased that she has
accepted this appointment,"
UAMS Chancellor I. Dodd Wilson, M.D., said.
Gardner
has been the chair of the Department of
Pharmacy Practice in the college since
1996. She will appoint a new chair of that
department. She will continue to teach
courses in the college, which has a
faculty of 58 and approximately 320
students.
Gardner earned a bachelor of pharmacy
degree from the University of North
Carolina in 1982 and a doctor of pharmacy
degree from the same institution in 1989.
She held a research fellowship in
cardiovascular pharmacology at Case
Western Reserve University in Cleveland,
Ohio, in 1989-1991. She earned a doctor of
education degree from the University of
Arkansas at Little Rock in 2001, writing a
dissertation on interdisciplinary
education at academic health centers.
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Stephanie Gardner, Pharm.D., Ed.D.
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The
College of Pharmacy awards the doctor of pharmacy degree to approximately 80
graduates each year and will award approximately 90 degrees each year beginning
in 2007. The pharmacists practice in community hospitals, independent
pharmacies, and other settings across the state. The college celebrated its 50th
anniversary last year.
Links on This Page
College of
Pharmacy: http://www.uams.edu/cop/default.htm
Pharmacy Students: http://www.uams.edu/today/2003/012303/CoP_state.htm
UAMS College of Pharmacy Honors: http://www.uams.edu/today/2002/111402/milne.htm
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