Mary Anne Koda-Kimble Named Dean of UCSF School of Pharmacy

Business Wire, Sept 24, 1998

SAN FRANCISCO--(BW HealthWire)--Sept. 24, 1998--Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, PharmD, a national leader in pharmacy education and clinical practice, has been appointed dean of the UCSF School of Pharmacy.

UCSF Chancellor J. Michael Bishop, MD, announced his appointment of Koda-Kimble and the UC Board of Regents finalized the action last week (Sept. 18) by approving her salary. She has been serving as interim dean since Sept. 1.

Koda-Kimble received her doctor of pharmacy degree from UCSF in 1969 and joined the UCSF faculty in 1970. Prior to her appointment as dean, Koda-Kimble served as chair and professor of the Department of Clinical Pharmacy in the UCSF School of Pharmacy, where she teaches and cares for patients at the UCSF Diabetes Center. She also holds the Thomas J. Long Endowed Chair in Chain Pharmacy Practice.

"The School of Pharmacy plays a vital role in making UCSF the nation's leading health sciences campus, and Mary Anne Koda-Kimble brings the leadership and innovation necessary to help the school and the campus continue to grow and succeed," Bishop said.

The UCSF School of Pharmacy consistently ranks as the best pharmacy program in the nation and leads all other pharmacy schools in National Institutes of Health grants for research. In 1997, the UCSF School of Pharmacy received 47 NIH awards totaling $21 million.

"The UCSF School of Pharmacy faces new challenges and opportunities -- an innovative new curriculum, the merger of clinical services into UCSF Stanford Health Care, and the development of a new UCSF research campus at Mission Bay," Koda-Kimble says. "My job will be to create new programs that will attract the resources the school needs to take advantage of these opportunities."

Koda-Kimble soon will announce new members and new roles for those now on the school's leadership team as the first step in developing a master plan for the School of Pharmacy.

With UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty offices and research laboratories scattered at several campus sites -- including a major presence at the planned UCSF Mission Bay site, one of the major challenges facing the school is a lack of cohesion, Koda-Kimble said.

"One of my top priorities will be to create a sense of place and community for the School of Pharmacy - a clear identity," she said.

Selected as a founding member of the National Academy of Practice in Pharmacy, Koda-Kimble currently serves on the Food & Drug Administration's Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee and is past president of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. In July, she began an eight-year term on the American Council of Pharmaceutical Education, a body that accredits pharmacy schools and continuing education for pharmacists.

Since receiving her first "best teacher" award from UCSF pharmacy students in 1974, Koda-Kimble has received numerous teaching and practice awards over the years, including being named an inaugural inductee to the California Pharmacists Hall of Fame in 1997, "Alumnus of the Year" by the UCSF School of Pharmacy Alumni Association in 1993, and "Pharmacist of the Year" by the California Society of Hospital Pharmacists in 1991.

Koda-Kimble is a frequent speaker before national and international groups and the author of many publications, the best known of which is Applied Therapeutics, a textbook widely used in schools of pharmacy throughout the world.

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