By Larry B. Dendy
A current pharmacy dean, an associate dean and a professor at universities in America and Norway have been recommended by a search committee as finalists to become dean of the College of Pharmacy.
One of the finalists may be named to succeed Stuart Feldman, who will step down as dean of UGA’s pharmacy college June 30 to take a faculty position.
The finalists are: Jack Fincham, dean of the School of Pharmacy at the University of Kansas; Robert A. Blouin, associate dean for research and graduate education at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy;
Svein Oie, a pharmaceutical professor at the University of California at San Francisco who also is a professor at the University of Tromso in Norway.
The finalists, chosen by a search committee of faculty, staff and students, will visit UGA and the Medical College of Georgia to meet with faculty, administrators and alumni at both institutions.
Keith Prasse, dean of UGA’s College of Veterinary Medicine and chair of the search committee, says all three candidates can move UGA’s pharmacy college to higher levels of excellence.
“Each has outstanding experience and ability, and the search committee is confident they all would provide strong leadership and initiate many positive advances for the college,” he says.
During their campus visits the candidates will tour the pharmacy college and meet with faculty, staff, students and representatives of regional pharmacy associations. They will also meet with Provost Karen Holbrook and with other vice presidents and deans.
Because the pharmacy college has many ties with the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, including shared faculty and joint research and student internship programs, the candidates will also meet with faculty and students at MCG. During their visit to UGA, each candidate will present a seminar on the future of pharmacy education that will be transmitted to MCG via an interactive television hookup.
Fincham became dean of the University of Kansas pharmacy school in 1994 after serving as a professor and associate dean of the Creighton University pharmacy school and associate and acting dean of the Samford University pharmacy school. He has also taught at the University of Mississippi and was on the faculty of the UGA pharmacy school from 1983 to 1986. He received a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from the University of Nebraska and a doctorate in social and administrative pharmacy from the University of Minnesota, where he was also a pharmacist in the university hospitals.
Blouin received his doctoral degree in pharmacy from the University of Kentucky in 1978 and has spent his entire professional career there. He has been associate dean for research and graduate education since 1998, and has also been director of the clinical pharmacokinetics program and the clinical pharmacology program.
He received a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy. He is an associate professor of pathology in the University of Kentucky College of Medicine.
Oie is professor of biopharmaceutical sciences and pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of California at San Francisco and professor of pharmaceutics at the University of Tromso in Tromso, Norway. He previously was a research assistant and postdoctoral fellow at the State University of New York in Buffalo and a research assistant at the University of Oslo in Norway.
He graduated from the University of Oslo pharmacy school and received a doctoral degree from the SUNY Buffalo pharmacy school. Since 1976, he has been at the University of California at San Francisco, where he is co-director of the graduate program in pharmaceutics and was vice chair of the department of biopharmaceutical sciences.
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