Stephanie Gardner Is Interim Dean of College of Pharmacy

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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.

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.

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.