Binghamton University names founding dean for pharmacy school

VESTAL, N.Y. — Binghamton University has selected Gloria E. Meredith to be the founding dean of its planned School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Meredith is currently dean of the College of Pharmacy and professor of pharmaceutical sciences at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in North Chicago.

“We are making steady progress to launch our new School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences with support from our legislators, the state and the community, and now, under the leadership of Gloria Meredith, we are poised to recruit faculty, develop curriculum, construct a building and move ahead with Binghamton University’s first new school since creation of the College of Community and Public Affairs nearly a decade ago,” Harvey Stenger, president of Binghamton University, said in a news release.

Meredith is already working with the pharmacy school’s planning committee and architect to design the building, according to Donald Nieman, executive vice president for academic affairs and provost at Binghamton University. “…her participation has positioned us to move the project ahead quickly and efficiently,” he said.

Nieman added that the university is on track to meet its goal of welcoming its first class of students in August 2017.

“I am delighted to join the Binghamton team as the founding dean of the new school,” Meredith said in the release. “This is a unique opportunity for this university to establish another quality professional program and to enhance research in the biomedical sciences and drug development and delivery.”

Meredith was appointed founding dean at Rosalind Franklin in 2009, and has held academic appointments at four medical schools and universities over the past 26 years. A biomedical researcher active in clinical education, she holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biology from Southern Methodist University and a doctorate in neuroscience from Georgetown University School of Medicine.