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Dr. Danny D. Shen, professor of pharmaceutics and pharmacy, has been named chair of the Department of Pharmacy, effective Oct. 1.
Pharmacy is one of three academic departments in the School of Pharmacy. The others are Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmaceutics.
Danny Shen
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In addition to his positions at the UW, Shen is a full member of the Clinical Research Division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
A graduate of Luther College in Iowa, Shen earned a Ph.D. in pharmaceutics from the State University of New York in Buffalo in 1975. After a fellowship in clinical pharmacology and toxicology at the University of Kansas Medical Center, he returned to SUNY at Buffalo in 1979 as a faculty member and director of the Clinical Pharmacokinetics Laboratory.
In 1984 he moved to the UW School of Pharmacy as an associate professor of pharmaceutics. He became a full professor in 1992 and also joined the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center’s Pain Research Program in the Clinical Research Division.
He has been a consultant to several pharmaceutical companies on drug development and is a member and fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists. He is also a member of the American Epilepsy Society, the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, the International Association for the Study of Pain and the Society of Neuroscience.
Shen is a member of the Editorial Board for the International Journal of Pharmaceutics and an associate editor for the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
His research has focused on drug metabolism and disposition and on the pharmacodynamics of neuroactive drugs, including drugs for epilepsy and pain management.
The Department of Pharmacy, which Shen now heads, includes the Bracken Pharmaceutical Care Learning Center, a certificate program in geriatric pharmacy practice, and the Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and Policy Program. In addition, the department offers a graduate study program and provides both fellowship and pharmacy residency options for postdoctoral students. ¶
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October 21, 1999