Three New Assistant Deans and Eleven New Faculty and Staff Named at College of Pharmacy
Writer: Sheila Roberson, 706-542-5303, roberson@rx.uga.edu
Date: August 8, 2007
Three faculty have been promoted to assistant dean positions and eleven new faculty and staff have been hired for the 2007-08 academic year at the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy.
Paul Brooks, former Director of the Office of Postgraduate Continuing Education and Outreach at the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy, has been promoted to a new position as the College's Assistant Dean for the newly named Division of Outreach and Nontraditional Education. The new title and new division reflect the growth of the former office in personnel and in new certificate and graduate programs for working adults. As a division the unit will disseminate additional curricula for health professionals as well as for biomedical industry leaders at the state, national and international levels. This curricula development is in response to the rapid growth of biotechnology companies in Georgia and elsewhere that require a highly trained biomedical workforce.
Brooks was hired by the College in 1995 to direct the development and implementation of the Nontraditional Doctor of Pharmacy Pathway Program; he assumed the director position in 2003. Prior positions include being an Accreditation Associate for the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists in Bethesda, Md., and Director for Inpatient Pharmacy Education in the North Carolina Area Health Education Center Program, with faculty appointments at the University of North Carolina School of Pharmacy and Duke University Family Medicine. He holds a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Mercer University Southern School of Pharmacy and completed a residency in Huntsville, Ala., and fellowship training in Athens.
Alan Wolfgang has taken over as Assistant Dean for Student Affairs and will oversee admissions and student services and organizations. Wolfgang first worked at the College from 1986 to 1992 as a member of the College's former Department of Pharmacy Care Administration. He then joined the faculty at Purdue University and returned to the College in 2002 as an admissions counselor and became an advising counselor in 2005. Wolfgang earned a Bachelor of Pharmacy at Butler University in 1979, a Master's degree at Purdue in 1981 and a doctorate in Pharmacy Administration at the University of Texas in 1983.
Susan Fagan has been named Assistant Dean for the College's Clinical Pharmacy Program at the Medical College of Georgia and Associate Head of the College's Department of Clinical and Administrative Pharmacy. She joined the faculty in 1999 after 13 years at Wayne State University and Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Mich. She received a B.S. degree in Pharmacy from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and her Doctor of Pharmacy degree at State University of New York at Buffalo. She completed a two-year fellowship in neuropharmacology at the Dent Neurologic Institute in Buffalo prior to her appointment at Wayne State.
Vivia Hill-Silcott has a new position as diversity coordinator for the College, whose responsibilities are aimed at diversity outreach and recruiting multi-cultural students into the Doctor of Pharmacy program. She had been senior assistant director of admissions and coordinator of multi-cultural recruitment at Ithaca College in Ithaca, N.Y., for 12 years. She earned a bachelor of science degree in biology at Upsala College in 1993 and a master's in student personnel administration from State University of New York, Buffalo, in 2002.
New faculty in the Department of Clinical and Administrative Pharmacy include Bradley Phillips as the new department head; he had been a faculty member at the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy and had worked as a clinical pharmacy specialist at the Veteran affairs Medical Center in Iowa City. He earned a B.S. in Pharmacy at the University of British Columbia in1989 and completed a hospital residency at Lion's Gate Hospital in North Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1990. He received a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the Medical University in 1993 and finished a cardiovascular fellowship at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1995.
Also hired into that department were Daniel Forrester, Carolyn Hunter, Nick Patel, Beth Phillips, and Sukhmani Sarao. Jason Zastre joined the Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences. Trina von Waldner ('01 Pharm.D.) was hired as Assistant Director for Postgraduate Continuing Education in the Division of Outreach and Nontraditional Education. She had previously worked as a public health pharmacist. Gary Dykstra, former Regional Food and Drug Director, Southeast Region, with the Food and Drug Administration, was hired as Director of Industrial Relations and Biomedical Continuing Education in the same division. He has a bachelor of science degree in microbiology from Michigan State University and a master of science degree, also in microbiology, from Purdue University. He joined the FDA in 1967. Beth Crovatt was hired as Associate Director of Development; she had previously worked in the UGA Alumni Foundation Office in Atlanta.