New Department Head and Faculty Join College of Pharmacy
Writer: Sheila Roberson, 706-542-5303, roberson@rx.uga.edu
Date: January 9, 2007
Bradley G. Phillips has been hired
as head of the Department of Clinical and
Administrative Pharmacy at the University of
Georgia College of Pharmacy. Phillips, who is
currently an associate professor at the
University of Iowa College of Pharmacy, will
begin his new position in May, pending approval
by the University System of Georgia Board of Regents.
In addition to holding a faculty position at the University of Iowa, Phillips has worked as a clinical pharmacy specialist at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Iowa City. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy at the University of British Columbia in 1989 and completed a hospital residency at Lions Gate Hospital in North Vancouver, British Columbia in1990. He received a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the Medical University of South Carolina in 1993 and finished a cardiovascular pharmacotherapy fellowship at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1995.
Phillips' research interests include neural circulatory studies in sleep and sleep apnea, the effect of pharmaceuticals on the sympathetic nervous system and heart performance, neural circulation and regulation of blood pressure, and age and heart performance.
Six other faculty have also been hired for the 2006-07 academic year--five in the Department of Clinical and Administrative Pharmacy and one in the Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences.
Joining the Department of Clinical and Administrative Pharmacy were Brian Buck, formerly an assistant director at Northeast Georgia Medical Center and Health System Pharmacy, who is in charge of the College's residency program. He received a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from UGA in 1992; and Robin Southwood, a Pharm.D. from Purdue University and previously lead clinical pharmacist at Terre Haute Regional Hospital.
David DeRemer, a Pharm.D. graduate from the University of Kentucky, took a position in the Department's clinical pharmacy program at the Medical College of Georgia. He had previously been an oncology clinical specialist at MCG. Other new faculty members with the MCG program are Azza El-Remessy, who received a Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology from MCG and a prior degree at Masoura University in Egypt; and Kalen Porter, formerly a faculty member at Mercer University Southern School of Pharmacy and a 2001 UGA Pharm.D. graduate.
Timothy Long joined the Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences faculty. He earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of South Florida and had held a postdoctoral position in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame.