OXFORD, Miss. – Donna Strum, whose nationally revered profession has spanned skilled follow, lecturers and administration, has been named the brand new dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy and government director of the Analysis Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences on the College of Mississippi.
A 3-time graduate of the pharmacy faculty, Strum served as interim dean and government director since July 1, 2021. The Mississippi Establishments of Increased Studying trustees permitted the official function transfer on Thursday, Feb. 17.
“I’m honored to guide among the best pharmacy faculties and analysis enterprises within the nation,” Strum stated. “We’ve got a robust basis of excellence on each our Oxford and Jackson campuses and all through our huge community of alumni, preceptors {and professional} neighborhood.
“I look ahead to constructing on this success as we proceed to help an inclusiveness and various surroundings. We’ll work on advancing our missions by innovation and collaboratively improve our affect on public well being.”
As dean, Strum will oversee the rising instructional alternatives for the undergraduate, graduate {and professional} packages on the nationally ranked pharmacy faculty. She’s going to information the 5 analysis facilities inside RIPS, together with the just lately added Nationwide Middle for Hashish Analysis and Schooling, and assist facilitate business partnerships and analysis funding, as the college introduced in additional than $19.2 million in exterior funding final 12 months.
“Dr. Strum is an achieved and revered scholar with a nationwide popularity in pharmacy,” stated Noel Wilkin, UM provost and government vice chancellor for educational affairs. “She has distinguished herself as a trusted and revered chief and administrator, and I’m assured she is going to have the ability to assist the nationally ranked Faculty of Pharmacy obtain even better success.”
Earlier than her interim function, Strum was appointed because the college’s affiliate provost in 2017, the place she oversaw all kinds of school, pupil and administrative issues, together with educational finances, pupil retention and human useful resource points.
After eight years on the college for the School of Pharmacy on the College of Arkansas Medical Sciences, she returned to Ole Miss in 2008 as chair and professor within the Division of Pharmacy Administration.
Throughout her stint as chair, she assisted in restructuring the graduate curriculum, in addition to serving to the division win the college’s Excellence in Selling Inclusiveness in Graduate Schooling award.
She was acknowledged with the 2015 Duncan Neuhauser Award from the Academy for Healthcare Enchancment and the college’s 2016 School Tutorial Improvements Award for her function in creating and implementing the instructing instrument Educating Pharmacists in High quality, or EPIQ. The useful resource trains pharmacists and pupil pharmacists to measure and enhance high quality in pharmacy care.
Strum graduated from the college together with her bachelor’s in pharmacy in addition to grasp’s and doctoral levels in pharmacy administration.
