2007 Annual Report - College of Pharmacy - The Ohio State University

Faculty
The College of Pharmacy faculty are truly outstanding, providing excellent teaching and learning
opportunities to students in both large lectures and small group settings. They are engaged in exciting
scholarship and state-of-the-art research in pharmacy and the pharmaceutical sciences. Our faculty and
staff serve the University and profession at regional and national levels and are involved in stimulating
outreach and engagement activities. The high quality of our faculty is reflected in this impressive
statistic: two-thirds of our Pharmacy senior faculty have been honored by their peers and elected as
Fellows of scientific organizations or professional pharmacy organizations.
The number of tenure-track faculty, regular clinical faculty, and instructional staff in Autumn 2006
totaled 61.
Colleen Clark joined our college in 2006, after her residency training at
OSU. In addition to teaching cased-based learning to Entry-Level PharmD
students, Colleen concentrated much of her first year on coordination of the
pathophysiology and therapeutics sequence of courses in the Non-Traditional
Doctor of Pharmacy Program. Colleen enjoyed interacting with these
distance- learning students who all had their own practice site from which to
draw experience. “They are highly-motivated students and learn a great deal
from one another,” says Colleen.
Colleen also found the Entry-Level PharmD students inquisitive and
eager to learn. She sought to bring pharmacy to life for these students,
developing patient charts with them and engaging them in discussions on
important pharmacy topics.
Colleen practices at the University Health Connection, an
interdisciplinary clinic where she participates in disease state management,
drug information, dispensing, and patient counseling.
Colleen and her fiance, Joe, are planning a wedding for the fall of 2008.
Professor Dasta retired from OSU in June 2007 after 31 years of
service, teaching and research to OSU and the College of Pharmacy
community.
Joe began his academic career in 1976 at OSU and developed one of
the first practice sites and post-doctoral training programs in critical care
pharmacy. One of the first pharmacist members of Society of Critical
Care Medicine (SCCM), he helped establish the role of the pharmacist
in this multidisciplinary society. He is a fellow of the American College
of Clinical Pharmacy and the American College of Critical Care
Medicine, serves on the editorial board of Critical Care Medicine and
Annals of Pharmacotherapy. Joe has given over 250 invited lectures on
various topics related to critical care and health outcomes.
Joe received his B.Sc. in Pharmacy in 1974 from West Virginia University School of Pharmacy and
M.Sc. and residency in Hospital Pharmacy from The Ohio State University (OSU) in 1976. Joe and his
wife, Desma, now live in Austin Texas where Joe remains active in his profession as an independent
consultant and Adjunct Professor at the University of Texas-Austin.
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