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Read a History of the UNC School of Pharmacy A History of the UNC School of Pharmacy By George H. Cocolas to the alumni ABOUT THE AUTHOR George H. Cocolas is professor emeritus of the School of Pharmacy, having retired after 4 years as a faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his B.S. Pharmacy degree in 95 from the University of Connecticut and Ph.D. in Pharmacy in 956 from the University of North Carolina. On graduation, he was employed as a research chemist by The National Drug Company in Philadelphia but returned to Chapel Hill in 958 to join the faculty of the School of Pharmacy. He was the associate dean of the School for 7 years. As a teacher and associate dean, he worked as an adviser with students and student leaders to make the most of their opportunities in school and as graduates. He served as chair of the Division of Medicinal Chemistry from 975- 98. A member of the graduate faculty, he was major adviser for eleven students, published 39 papers in peer-reviewed journals and was awarded three patents. He contributed on NSF review panels, was secretary and also chairman of the Medicinal Chemistry Section of the APhA Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and chairman of the ACS Medicinal Chemistry Symposium in 986. Trained as a synthetic organic chemist, his area of research was primarily in neurochemistry. In January 980 he became editor of the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, a post he held for 3 years. He has been active in academic pharmacy representing Medicinal Chemistry on the Executive Committee of the AACP Conference of Teachers, and as a member of the AACP Resolutions Committee, Program Committee member of the AACP Section of Teachers, the Committee to Evaluate the AACP Executive Director, the AACP Research and Graduate Affairs Committee and the AACP PCAT Advisory Committee. In 003 he was elected Honorary President of AACP. Table of Contents Foreword 6 The Formative Period – Health Affairs and Beard Hall 9 Prologue 9 The Making of Health Affairs 0 The Young Edward A. Brecht 5 The New Pharmacy Building 7 Pharmacy in the 50s and Early 60s The Curriculum Change 3 The New Building 6 Accreditation 8 The Hager Years 3 The Beginning 3 Addressing Change 3 The Curriculum Change 35 Clinical Pharmacy in the Curriculum 36 Faculty Growth and Capitation 40 The AHECs 4 Graduate and Research Programs in the 960s 43 Student and Service Programs in the School 45 Growth and Development 47 Changes in the School 50 The Divisions 974-992 53 Pharmacy Practice 53 Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products 56 Pharmaceutics 59 Pharmacy Administration 6 School Activity 63 ` Student Life 64 Pharmacy Foundation of North Carolina 67 Pharmacy Alumni Association 7 3 Striving towards Excellence 75 The New Pharm.D. 77 The External Pharm.D. Program 80 Bimodal School of Pharmacy 8 Kerr Building 87 Academic Endeavors 9 Tomorrow 93 Appendixes Three-Year Professional Degree Program 94 Professional Entry-Level Doctor of Pharmacy Curriculum 95 Pharmacy Alumni Presidents 96 Hollingsworth Faculty Scholars 97 W.J. Smith Practitioners-in-Residence 98 Fonnie Jackson Andrews Award Recipients 99 Hollingsworth Scholar Award Recipients 00 Howard and Mescal Ferguson Scholarship Recipients 0 4 Acknowledgements The writing of this second history of the School of Pharmacy of the University of North Carolina came from the invitation of Kevin Almond, associate dean for advancement and executive director of the Pharmacy Alumni Association. It was to be a sequel to the initial description of the School that was published in 96. This overture had been made earlier by Dean William Campbell, who suggested to the author that he was a pharmacy faculty member for the majority of this period and would be well suited to write the history. The archives located in Wilson Library on the UNC campus provided an invaluable resource for documents on the University and the School of Pharmacy. The single constant resource for information was the 955-99 collection of annual reports of the deans to the Chancellor. In addition, on searching the School archives stored in the basement of Beard Hall, files on the Division of University Health Affairs kept by Dean Edward Brecht were found with the help of Pharmacy staff members. In the period of this second history, capital improvements and relocation of the School of Pharmacy to temporary offices in trailers and other buildings on campus, was accompanied by a loss of files that may have been of historical value. The book could not have been written without the cooperation of faculty and staff who were interviewed and those who answered the questions that made this oral history of the School possible. The author is grateful to Ralph P. Rogers ’49 and Lloyd Milton Whaley ’5 for their interviews on the North Carolina Pharmacy Foundation. The description of the clinical pharmacy program evolution at the School was helped by informative conversations with Claude Paoloni, retired UNC pharmacy faculty member, and Fred Eckel, now executive secretary of the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists and part-time faculty member. Interviews with UNC faculty Steve Caiola, Kim Deloatch, Wayne Pittman and Robert Shrewsbury provided information about the maze of curricular changes throughout the years as the School converted from a baccalaureate to the professional doctorate program. Administrative changes that accompanied curricular changes were helpfully described in an interview with Associate Dean Pamela Joyner. The interviews of the division chairs gave good insight on the nature of their programs. The author is indebted to Dr. Hal Kohn, chair of the Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products, Dr. Gary Pollack, chair of the Division of Drug Disposition, Ralph Raasch, chair of the Division of Pharmacotherapy, and past chairs of the Division of Pharmaceutical Policy and Evaluative Sciences, Joseph Norwood, now retired, and Dale Christiansen. Information from past staff members during the tenures of George Hager and Tom Miya and William Campbell, Linda Goswick, secretary to the dean, Gail Moriarty, admissions secretary, and Rebecca Work, business manager, allowed for ties between the deans and the programs of the School. Interviews with former deans Tom Miya and William Campbell gave invaluable perspectives of the programs during their tenures. Telephone conversations of present School of Pharmacy staff and faculty were of great value to fill voids of information on dates and names. Finally, Kevin Almond, of the Development Office of the School of Pharmacy and its staff should be recognized for their assistance in providing past issues of their publications and responding to my many questions. 5 FOREWORD This history of the School of Pharmacy is a sequel to the first written by pharmacy librarian, Alice Noble, which documents the beginning of the study of pharmacy at the University of North Carolina from 890 to the year 96. This second attempt covers the period 949 to 003 and describes the events during the tenures of the four deans who served for a sufficient length of time to significantly affect programs of the School of Pharmacy. To give a perspective of the changes that took place in pharmacy education, the author felt it was necessary to first describe the setting of the School in the greater University and the events that formed the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill to make it part of the Consolidated University as we know it today. The emphasis of this history is on the education of students in pharmacy. The events that occurred globally and nationally during the latter half of the twentieth century molded the practice of pharmacy and affected those in higher education. During this time many changes in higher education took place. Beginning with the return of World War II veterans to the colleges and universities, higher education became a way to improve the quality of life for an ever increasing number of Americans. Advances in health sciences created an unparalleled explosion in health care practices. The School during this period was not isolated from the academic and political events of these times. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill underwent a dramatic change when the state legislature made an appropriation to build a four-year medical school in Chapel Hill and add to that a teaching hospital and schools of dentistry and nursing to create a medical center. Later, pharmacy education was affected by Congressional legislation that supported health manpower education and the new accreditation guidelines that mandated a change to an entry-level professional degree for graduates in pharmacy. The events of the time presented each dean with a different environment for their administration. With the exception of Dean Edward Brecht who was a faculty member for years before his appointment and knew the pharmacists of the state, each of the new deans on their arrival took it upon themselves to travel the state to meet the alumni. They visited pharmacies, spoke at local pharmacy association meetings and opened a dialog with the leaders of the pharmaceutical industry in North Carolina. Deans became money managers balancing University appropriations with extramural support to retain and attract faculty. They struggled to address the state’s pharmacy manpower shortage and limitations of physical facilities to teach the curriculum. Each of the deans had different administrative styles and an agenda to address the needs of the time. The curriculum in the School under the tenure of Edward A. Brecht was focused on preparing graduates for the practice to accurately and efficiently dispense medication orders by prescribers. This approach dates back to his experiences as a practicing pharmacist in Minnesota. Knowing drugs, drug forms, doses, medical uses and indications for prescription and over-the-counter medical products provided a knowledge base on which the pharmacist could counsel patients and physicians and was consistent with the thoughts of most of the faculty during that time.
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