Dean Campbell Leading College
Dr. William H. Campbell, Dean and Professor Emeritus of the University of North Carolina and a past president of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, is serving as Interim Dean of the College of Pharmacy while a search is conducted for a successor to Dean James P. Kehrer.
Dean Campbell retired to Washington State after serving 11 years as dean of the School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to Chapel Hill, he served four years as dean of the School of Pharmacy at Auburn University in Auburn, Ala.
Dean Campbell has bachelors and masters degrees in pharmacy and pharmaceutical science from Oregon State University, a Ph.D. in pharmaceutical science from Purdue University, and he also has worked at Oregon State University, Kaiser Foundation Health Services Research Center in Portland, and the University of Washington. Dean Campbell served as the President of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy in 1988.
A search is underway for a new dean of the College of Pharmacy to replace James P. Kehrer, who left in August 2009 to become dean of pharmacy at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. A Notice of Vacancy is now being circulated, and screening of applications will begin Oct. 1, 2009.