Education:
- A.A. Criminal Justice, Northwest Mississippi Community College
- B.A. Criminal Justice, University of Mississippi
- A.A.S. Hotel & Restaurant Management, Northwest Mississippi Community College
- M.A. Theology, Union University
Ms. Lela Chalmers
Manasi S. Suryavanshi
Education:
- B.S. (Pharmacy), University of Mumbai, India, 2012
- MPH (Management Policy and Community Health), University of Texas Health
Science Center School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, 2014.
Research Interests:
Breast cancer screening utilization among women, Secondary Data Analysis, Pharmacoepidemiology.
Dr. Meagen Rosenthal
Education:
- Ph.D. University of Alberta
- M.A. University of Alberta
- B.A. University of Alberta
Appointment(s):
- Associate Professor of Pharmacy Administration
- Research Associate Professor in the Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Affiliated Research Associate in the Center for Population Studies
Interests:
Dr. Rosenthal’s general research interests include community pharmacy practice advancement, implementation science, and patient centered research. She is also interested in improving diabetes self-management and developing patient-centered weight management programs.
Dr. Donna Strum
Education:
- Ph.D. University of Mississippi
- M.S. University of Mississippi
- B.S.Ph. University of Mississippi
Appointment(s):
- Dean of the School of Pharmacy
- Executive Director of the Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Professor of Pharmacy Administration
- Research Professor in the Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Interests:
Dr. Strum’s research interests lie in community pharmacy practice and using marketing and management theories to study the provision, use, and evaluation of pharmaceuticals and pharmacy services. She is interested in health care quality and medication safety, as well as management issues in community pharmacy practice. She has also conducted research related to medication adherence, evaluation of pharmacy benefit designs and pharmacy interventions, patient satisfaction, and prescriber behaviors.
Biography:
Donna Strum, whose nationally respected career has spanned professional practice, academics and administration, was named dean of the School of Pharmacy and executive director of the Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences on February 17, 2022.
She had served as interim dean and executive director since July 1, 2021.
Before her interim role, Strum was appointed as the university’s associate provost in 2017, where she oversaw a wide variety of faculty, student and administrative matters, including academic budget, student retention and human resource issues.
After eight years on the faculty for the College of Pharmacy at the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences, she returned to the university in 2008 as chair and professor in the Department of Pharmacy Administration.
During her stint as chair, she assisted in restructuring the graduate curriculum, as well as helping the department win the university’s Excellence in Promoting Inclusiveness in Graduate Education award.
She was recognized with the 2015 Duncan Neuhauser Award from the Academy for Healthcare Improvement and the school’s 2016 Faculty Instructional Innovations Award for her role in creating and implementing the teaching tool Educating Pharmacists in Quality, or EPIQ. The resource trains pharmacists and student pharmacists to measure and improve quality in pharmacy care.
Strum graduated from the university with her bachelor’s in pharmacy as well as master’s and doctoral degrees in pharmacy administration.
Sririvasa M. Sammeta, Ph.D. – 2012
Senior Scientist – Formulation
Watson Laboratories, Inc.
(A subsidiary of Actavis, Inc.)
577 Chipeta Way
Salt Lake City, UT 84108
Pradeep Kumar Vuppala, Ph.D. – 2012
Senior Research Technologist
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place, D2059
Memphis, TN 38105
Noorullah Naqvi Mohammed, Ph.D. – 2012
Formulation Scientist
Pharmaceutics International, Inc.
10819 Gilroy Road
Hunt Valley, MD 21031
