Pharmacy Education at the University of Mississippi

by Smith, Mickey C.

• ISBN13: 9780789029607
• ISBN10: 078902960X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-07-21
• Publisher: Informa HealthC

Summary

Discover the surprising history of Ole Miss” School of Pharmacy To mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Ole Miss” School of Pharmacy, noted contributors have gathered to spotlight its unique background. Pharmacy Education at the University of Mississippi: Sketches, Highlights, and Memories reviews the trials and triumphs in the fascinating history of the school, exploring a tumultuous century that included wars, social upheaval, curricular revolution, and amazing successes. This surprising--and engagingly written--book details the school's transformation from a second-rate institution to an internationally recognized program. Beyond being the first public university chartered in the state, the University of Mississippi has a long history of innovative thinking. Near the beginning of the twentieth century, the Mississippi State legislature recognized the need to adequately oversee those individuals who would dispense medicines. So, in 1908, the University of Mississippi established its pharmaceutical department and set on a course of improving educational standards for students of pharmacy. Pharmacy Education at the University of Mississippi presents the highlights of events, challenges, and successes from the visionary founding of the school by a man not yet 30 years old on to its becoming a leading school of pharmacy in the United States. The book includes nearly three dozen photographs. Pharmacy Education at the University of Mississippi tells stories and personal insights of: the founding of the school by a young pharmacy clerk the school's struggles for funding--and respect transformation from a second-rate institution to an internationally recognized program honors, awards, and recognition of students, faculty, and alumni pharmacy education in the twenty-first century program development through the years women in pharmacy and at the university much more! Pharmacy Education at the University of Mississippi is a revealing view of history for pharmacy school libraries, alumni of Ole Miss”, pharmacy school faculty and students, and historians of all types.

Table of Contents

About the Editor	xi
Contributors	xiii
Preface and Acknowledgments	xv
List of Abbreviations	xix
Chapter 1. Administrative Matters	1	(78)
THE BEGINNING	1	(3)
THE FASER YEARS	4	(11)
Emma Katherine Faser Birchett	14	(10)
Joe B. McCaskill	14	(1)
ELMER L. HAMMOND	15	(9)
CHARLES W HARTMAN	24	(16)
Overview of the Hartman Era	25	(5)
W. Marvin Davis	25	(5)
The Hartman Years in Pharmaceutics	30	(2)
Julian H. Fincher	30	(2)
Thoughts on Dean Charles Hartman	32	(8)
Edwin Meek	32	(8)
JOE B. MCCASKILL	40	(3)
Memories of My Acting-Dean Experience	40	(3)
Joe B. McCaskill	40	(3)
WALLACE L. GUESS	43	(7)
Memories of the Deanship Experience	43	(7)
Wallace L. Guess	43	(7)
KENNETH B. ROBERTS	50	(22)
Memories of the Deanship	59	(20)
Kenneth B. Roberts	59	(13)
ROBERT D. SINDELAR	72	(1)
BARBARA O. WELLS	72	(1)
THE DEANS: A SUMMARY	73	(6)
Chapter 2. Programs	79	(156)
TEACHING	79	(37)
The New Curriculum at the Ole Miss School of Pharmacy	82	(3)
Wallace L. Guess	82	(3)
The Department of Pharmacology and the Pharmacy Curriculum at the University of Mississippi	85	(3)
W. Marvin Davis	85	(3)
Pharmacognosy in the Pharmacy Curriculum at the University of Mississippi	88	(2)
Larry W. Robertson	88	(2)
Medicinal Chemistry in the Pharmacy Curriculum at the University of Mississippi	90	(3)
W. Franklin Gilmore	90	(3)
The Pharmaceutics Department Curriculum at the University of Mississippi	93	(4)
Robert W. Cleary	93	(4)
Health Care Administration in the Pharmacy Curriculum at the University of Mississippi	97	(3)
Mickey C. Smith	97	(3)
Competencies of Graduate Pharmacists	100	(4)
Mickey C. Smith	100	(4)
Curricular Changes	104	(12)
Marvin Wilson	104	(12)
FACULTY AND DEPARTMENTS	116	(47)
Medicinal Chemistry	116	(33)
Pharmacology	130	(7)
W. Marvin Davis
Pharmacognosy	137	(5)
Charles D. Hufford
Pharmacy Administration	142	(7)
Dewey Garner
Noel Wilkin
Clinical Pharmacy Practice	149	(27)
A New Department: Clinical Pharmacy Practice	151	(3)
Thomas R. Brown
Pharmacy Practice
H. Joseph Byrd	154	(3)
Pharmaceutics
Marvin Wilson	157	(6)
FACULTY	163	(13)
RESEARCH	176	(22)
The Research Institute of the Pharmaceutical Sciences (RIPS)	177	(7)
The History of the Marijuana Project at the University of Mississippi	184	(4)
Mahmoud El Sohly
The National Center for the Development of Natural Products: Concept and Creation	188	(5)
James D. McChesney
The National Center for the Development of Natural Products: The First Decade	193	(8)
Larry Walker
Alice Clark
THE CENTER FOR PHARMACEUTICAL MARKETING AND MANAGEMENT	198	(3)
SERVICE,	201	(21)
Founding and History: The Bureau of Pharmaceutical Services	216	(24)
Kerby E. Ladner
STUDENTS	222	(13)
Chapter 3. Facilities	235	(14)
TEACHING	235	(2)
RESEARCH	237	(3)
LIBRARY	240	(6)
History of the Pharmacy Library	240	(10)
Nancy F. Fuller
STUDENT HEALTH CENTER PHARMACY	246	(1)
THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES	247	(1)
FUTURE	247	(2)
Chapter 4. Women in Pharmacy and at Ole Miss	249	(4)
THE INFORMAL ROLE OF WOMEN	250	(1)
FACULTY WIVES	250	(3)
Days in the Life of a Professor's Wife, circa 1968	251	(20)
Mary Smith	251	(2)
Chapter 5. Trials and Triumphs	253	(6)
TRIALS	253	(1)
TRIUMPHS	254	(5)
Chapter 6. "Janus": A Look at the Twenty-First Century	259	(10)
Chapter 7. Remarks of the Centennial Dean	269	(22)
Comments on the Deanship	271	(20)
Barbara G. Wells
Epilogue	291	(4)
Name Index	295	(10)
Subject Index	305