Former Faculty
| Name | Dates | Position | Specialty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yandell, Lunsford Pitts Sr., M.D. | 1837-1855 | Professor of Chemistry, and Physiology and Pathological Anatomy | Pharmacy |
| Short, Charles Wilkin, M.D. | 1838-1851 | Professor of Materia Medica and Medical Botany, Dean of the Faculty, Professor Emeritus | Botany |
| Rogers, Lewis, M.D. | 1852-1869 | Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics | Clinical Medicine |
| Bemiss, Samuel M., M.D. | 1862-1863 | Professor of Materia Medica and Medical Jurisprudency | General Practice |
| Frazee, L. J., M.D. | 1866-1867 | Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics | General Practice |
| Scott, Preston B., M.D. | 1867-1868 | Assistant Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics | General Practice |
| Yandell, Lunsford Pitts, Jr., M.D. | 1868-1883 | Professor of Materia Medica and Clinical Medicine | Pediatrics and Medicine |
| Holland, James, W.H., M.D. | 1879-1883 | Professor of Materia Medica and Medicinal Chemistry, and Diseases of the Nervous System | Chemistry |
| Octerlong, John A., M.D. | 1870-1874 | Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, and Clinical Medicine | Clinical Medicine |
| Warner, Geo M., M.D. | 1882-1897 | Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics | Anatomy |
| Anderson, Turner, M.D. | 1882-1883 | Demonstrator of Materia Medica and Therapeutics | General Practice |
| Bailey, William, A. B., M.D. | 1885-1889 | Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, and Public Hygiene | Public Health |
| Marshall, Edwing, M.D. | 1887-1889 | Assistant Professor of Materia Medica | Internal Medicine |
| Hendon, George A., M.D. | 1894-1895 | Instructor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics | General Practice |
| Abell, W. L., M.D. | 1897-1898 | Instructor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics | General Practice |
| Morrison, J. Rowan, M.D. | 1898-1901 | Instructor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics | General Practice |
| Offutt, Vance, M.D. | 1899-1900 | Demonstrator in Lab. of Materia Medica and Therapeutics | General Practice |
| McCarty, J. A., M.D. | 1900-1901 | Demonstrator in Lab. of Materia Medica and Therapeutics | General Practice |
| Abell, Irvin, M.D. | 1901-1908 | Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, and Genito-Urinary Diseases | Surgery |
| Leavell, High N., M.D. | 1904-1908 | Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, and Pediatrics | Pediatrics |
| Cottell, Henry A., M.D. | 1906-1916 | Professor and Chairman, Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology, Professor Emeritus | Physiology |
| Simpson, Virgil E., M.D. | 1907-1923 | Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics | Clinical |
| Doyle, Oscar W., M.D. | 1914-1921 | Adjunct Professor of Therapeutics | Medicine |
| Redmon, Edward C., M.D. | 1914-1921 | Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmacology | Clinical Medicine |
| Hayes, George, M.D. | 1915-1916 | Demonstrator in Lab. of Pharmacology | General Practice |
| Dyer, John W., M.D. | 1916-1920 | Instructor of Pharmacology | Medicine |
| DeWeese, A. D., B.S. | 1918-1920 | Assistant of Pharmacology | Education |
| Barbour, Henry Gray, M.D. | 1923-1931 | Professor and Chairman, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology | Physiology; Inventor; and author of Experimental Pharmacology & Toxicology |
| Speidel, Frederick G., M.D. | 1923-1942 | Clinical Instructor of Therapeutics | General Practice |
| Frankmann, Raymond W., M.D. | 1924-1926 | Assistant in Pharmacology | General Practice |
| Norland, Hulbert Viers, M.D. | 1925-1926 | Assistant in Pharmacology | General Practice |
| Beutner, Reinhard, M.D., Ph.D. | 1925-1934 | Professor of Pharmacology | Physical Chemistry |
| Csakey, M. W. A. B., Ph.D. | 1927-1934 | Instructor of Physiology and Pharmacology | Physiology |
| Hunter, L. G., M.D. | 1927-1928 | Assistant in Physiology and Pharmacology | General Practice |
| Flowers, A. Henry, A.B. | 1931-1932 | Assistant in Physiology and Pharmacology | Physiology |
| Howard, Mose W., M.D. | 1931-1932 | Student Assistant in Pharmacology | General Practice |
| Wakerlin, George E., M.D., Ph.D. | 1933-1935 | Professor and Chairman, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology | Physiology |
| Lawson, Hampden C., M.D., Ph.D. | 1934-1960 | Assistant Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology, Professor and Chairman, Department of Physiology | Body fluids and Electrolytes |
| Ambrose, Anthony M., Ph.D. | 1939-1942 | Assistant Professor of Pharmacology | Pharmacy and Biochemistry |
| Lehmann, Gerhard, M.D. | 1939-1942 | Instructor of Pharmacology | Chemistry |
| Houchin, Boyd O., Ph.D. | 1946-1947 | Assistant Professor of Pharmacology | Biochemistry |
| Malaf, Noble S. R., M.D., Ph.D. | 1947-1948 | Assistant Professor of Pharmacology | Tropical Medicine |
| Cantrell, William F., Ph.D. | 1949-1958 | Associate Professor of Pharmacology | Chemotherapy |
| Dillingham, William E., B.D. | 1949-1951 | Assistant in Pharmacology | Public Health; Industrial Hygiene |
| McIntosh, B. J., Ph.D. | 1949-1955 | Assistant Professor of Pharmacology | Anesthesiology |
| Pedigo, George N., M.D. | 1949-1951 | Lecturer in Therapeutics | Clinical Medicine |
| Hendon, James R., M.D. | 1951-1952 | Lecturer in Therapeutics | Clinical Medicine |
| Telford, Jane, M.D. | 1952-1953 | Associate in Pharmacology | General Practice |
| Melletee, Henry C., Ph.D. | 1952-1953 | Instructor of Pharmacology | Psychiatry |
| Brahen, Leonard F., Ph.D. | 1954-1955 | Instructor of Pharmacology | Psychiatry |
| Cronen, Michael R., M.D. | 1954-1961 | Associate of Pharmacology | Internal Medicine |
| Isbell, Harris, M.D. | 1956-1965 | Lecturer in Pharmacology and Psychosomatic Research | Narcotic Pharmacology |
| Wikler, Abraham, M.D. | 1956-1965 | Lecturer in Pharmacology and Psychosomatic Research | Psychiatry |
| Frazer, H. Frank, M.D. | 1956-1965 | Lecturer in Pharmacology | Psychiatry |
| Martin, William R., M.D. | 1959-1965 | Lecturer in Pharmacology | Narcotic Pharmacology |
| Despopoulos, Agameninon, M.D. | 1957-1962 | Research Assistant Professor | Renal Pharmacology |
| LeFevre, Paul G., Ph.D. | 1960-1968 | Professor of Pharmacology | Membrane Physiology |
| Peters, Alvin Alois, Sc.D. | 1961-1962 | Research Associate in Pharmacology | Structure-activity relationships |
| Soda, Reisuke, Sc.D. | 1963-1964 | Instructor in Pharmacology | Chemistry |
| Kitao, Teijiro, Ph.D. | 1963-1965 | Associate in Pharmacology | Chemistry |
| Smith, Richard P., Ph.D. | 1963-1965 | Associate in Pharmacology | Psychology |
| Essig, Carl F., M.D. | 1963-1964 | Lecturer in Pharmacology | Psychiatry |
| Csaky, Tihamer Z., M.D. | 1964-1965 | Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology | Gastrointestinal Physiology |
| Gordon, Helmut A., M.D. | 1964-1965 | Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology | Microbiological Pharmacology |
| Motoyama, I., Ph.D. | 1965-1966 | Research Associate | Chemistry |
| Klingele, Harold O., Ph.D. | 1965-1971 | Assistant Professor of Pharmacology | Chemistry |
| Alvarado, Francisco, M.D. | 1967-1968 | Associate Professor of Pharmacology | Physiology |
| Darby, Thomas D., Ph.D. | 1969-1973 | Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology | Cardiovascular and Autonomic Pharmacology and Toxicology |
| Nicholson, John A., Ph.D. | 1969-1975 | Assistant Professor of Pharmacology | Cardiovascular Pharmacology |
| Chan, Yun-lai, Ph.D. | 1972-1974 | Instructor of Pharmacology | Renal Pharmacology |
| Short, Harold J., Ph.D. | 1974-1975 | Assistant Professor of Pharmacology | Chemistry |
| Carr, Edward A., M.D. | 1974-1976 | Professor and Chairman, Department of Pharmacology | Clinical Pharmacology |
| Dinno, Mumtaz A., Ph.D. | 1974-1979 | Research Associate | Physiology and Biophysics |
| Cranston, Joseph, Ph.D. | 1975-1976 | Assistant Professor of Pharmacology | Drug Metabolism |
| Gorodetzky, Charles W., M.D., Ph.D. | 1981-1993 | Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology | Psychiatry |
| Jasinski, Donald, M.D. | 1981-1983 | Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology | Psychiatry |
| Richman, Stephan P., M.D. | 1981-1988 | Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology | Immunopharmacology |
| Ramp, Warren K., Ph.D. | 1982-1991 | Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology; Professor of Oral Biology | Calcium Metabolism |
| Huang, Kee Chang M.D., Ph.D. | 1956-1998 | Assistant, Associate, Full Professor, Professor Emeritus; Acting Chairman | Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs, Renal Tubular Transport |
| Knoefel, Peter K., M.D | 1935-1999 | Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor, Chair, Department of Pharmacology; Professor and Chair Emeritus | Anesthetics, Radiopague Diagnostic Agents, Poisonous venoms |
| Tamburro, Carlo H., M.D., M.P.H. | 1982-1999 | Associate Professor, Professor, Division Chief, Occupational Toxicology | Occupational and Environmental Toxicology; Biomarkers; Hepatology |
| Woodcock, Thomas M., M.D. | 1980-1999 | Associate Professor, Professor, Adjunct Professor | Medical Oncology |
| Gordon, Helmut A., M.D. | 1971-1999 | Adjunct Professor, Adjunct Professor Emeritus | Gnotobiology, host-microflora interactions, antibiotic resistance |
| Hathcock, Arthur L., Ph.D. | 1990-1999 | Adjunct Assistant Professor | Epidemiology |
| Liss, Gary M., M.D. | 1990-1999 | Adjunct Assistant Professor | Occupational Toxicology |
| Laszlo, Makk, M.D. | 1990-1999 | Adjunct Associate Professor | Occupational Toxicology |
| Ross, Mitchell P., M.D. | 1995-2000 | Associate | Pediatric pharmacology and toxicology |
| Lang, Calvin A., Sc.D. | 1980-2000 | Associate | Role of glutathione in health and aging |
| Edmonds, Harvey L., Ph.D. | 1977-2002 | Associate | Neuroprotection in high risk surgery |
| Parsian, Abbas, Ph.D. | 2001-2004 | Associate | Medical Genetics |
| Jumblatt, James E., Ph.D. | 1989-2004 | Associate | Ophthalmology and visual sciences |
| Wang, Guang Jian, Ph.D. | 2002-2004 | Associate | Neurotoxicology |
| Rigor, Benjamin M., M.D. | 1981-2005 | Associate | Anesthesiology |
| Miller, Frederick N., Ph.D | 1988-2005 | Professor (Joint), Associate | Microcirculation in the inflammatory response |
| Clouthier, David E., Ph.D. | 2001-2005 | Assistant Professor (Joint) | Developmental toxicology; birth defects |
| Delamere, Nicholas A., Ph.D. | 1986-2006 | Associate Professor, Professor (Joint) | Membrane transport mechanisms |
| Stansbury, Kevin H., Ph.D. | 2004-2007 | Associate | Analytical toxicology |
| Liu, Ye Qi, M.D., Ph.D. | 2003-2007 | Associate | Transgenic approaches to diabetes |
| Schurr, Avital, Ph.D. | 1981-2007 | Associate | Cerebral energy metabolism |
| Wong, John L., Ph.D. | 1994-2008 | Professor (Joint); Associate | Biomarkers; environmental toxicology |
| Young, William W., Jr. Ph.D. | 2002-2008 | Associate | Glycolipids; glycotransferases and sphingolipids |
| Kennedy, Mary Jayne, Pharm.D. | 2003-2008 | Assistant Professor (Joint) | Pediatric pharmacology |
| Gozal, David, M.D. | 1999-2009 | Professor (Joint) | Sleep medicine; sleep apnea |
| Wang, Yang M.D., Ph.D. | 2000-2009 | Assistant and Associate Professor (Joint) | Regulation of hypoxic/ischemic injury and protection in the cardiovascular system |
| Zimmerman, Thom J., M.D., Ph.D. | 1986-2009 | Professor and Professor Emeritus (Joint) | Pharmacological treatment of glaucoma |
| Martinez, Manuel, M.D. | 2007-2009 | Professor (Joint) | Hypertension and its effects on kidney function |
| Zundel, Wayne S., Ph.D. | 2004-2009 | Assistant Professor (Joint) | Molecular oncology |
| Lillard, James W. Jr., Ph.D., M.B.A. | 2007-2009 | Associate Professor (Joint); Associate | Inflammation and immunity |
| Helm, C. William, M.D. | 2008-2010 | Associate | Ovarian cancer |
| Litvan, Irene, M.D. | 2007-2011 | Professor (Joint) | Parkinson's Disease |
| Scharff, Thomas G., Ph.D. | 1956-2012 | Assistant Professor, Associate Professor,Professor, Professor Emeritus | Membrane transport |
| McGregor, W. Glenn, M.D. | 2000-2012 | Associate Professor, Professor | DNA damage, repair and mutagenesis |
| Goldstein, Richard E., M.D., Ph.D. | 2004-2012 | Professor (Joint) | Surgical Endocrinology |
| Fan, Teresa Whei-Mei, Ph.D. | 2003-2013 | Associate Professor (Joint); Associate | Selenium; Metabolomics |
| Hagg, Theo, M.D., Ph.D. | 2002-2013 | Professor (Joint) | Neurotrophic factor receptors and endogenous stem cells as drug targets |
| Waddell, William J., M.D. | 1977-2014 | Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology; Professor and Chair Emeritus | Occupational toxicology; autoradiography; pH trapping; dose-response at low exposures |
| Aronoff, George R., M.D. | 1987-2014 | Professor (Joint) | Drug nephrotoxicity, renal drug metabolism, artificial intelligence |
| Davis, Keith R., Ph.D. | 2006-2014 | Professor | Development of plant-based pharmaceuticals |
| Sankar, Uma, Ph.D. | 2007-2014 | Assistant Professor; Associate Professor | Hematopoetic stem cell biology and cancer |
| Jonsson, Colleen B., Ph.D. | 2011-2014 | Professor (Secondary appointment) | Molecular virology of emerging negative-strand RNA viruses |
| Waite, Leonard C., Ph.D. | 1970-2015 | Assistant Professor; Associate Professor; Professor; Vice Chairman; Professor Emeritus | Endocrine pharmacology |
| Brock, Guy N., Ph.D. | 2012-2015 | Associate Professor (Secondary appointment) | Statistical bioinformatics and genetics |
| Bodduluri, Haribabu, Ph.D. | 2001-2016 | Associate Professor; Professor (Secondary appointment) | Signal transduction and chemoreceptors |
| Tollerud, David J., M.D., M.P.H. | 2001-2016 | Professor (Secondary appointment) | Occupational and environmental health |
| Wattenberg, Brian W. (Binks), Ph.D. | 2006-2016 | Associate Professor (Secondary appointment) | Sphingosine-kinase and lipid signaling |
| Myers, Steven R., Ph.D. | 1991-2016 | Assistant Professor; Associate Professor; Professor; Associate Chair for Professional Education | Drug and xenobiotic metabolism; Biomarkers of chemical exposure and toxicity |
| McNally, Lacey R., Ph.D. | 2012-2017 | Assistant Professor (Secondary appointment) | Cancer metastasis |
| Dagirmanjian, Rose, Ph.D. | 1969-2017 | Associate Professor; Professor; Professor Emerita | Neurotoxicology |
| Roman, Jesse, M.D. | 2010-2018 | Professor (Secondary appointment) | Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in lung matrix and lung tissue remodeling |
| Jarboe, Charles H. (Harry), Ph.D. | 1957-2018 | Assistant Professor; Associate Professor; Acting Chairman; Professor; Professor Emeritus | Medicinal and Analytical Chemistry; Clinical and Applied Toxicology |
Jenson, A. Bennett, M.D. | 2010-2018 | Professor (Secondary Appointment) | Translational immunology: humoral responses to prevent infection by papillomavirus |
Arteel, Gavin E., Ph.D. | 2005-2018 | Assistant Professor; Associate Professor; Professor; Vice Chair for Research | Mechanisms of oxidative stress; mechanisms of alcohol-inducedhepatitis, pancreatitis, and hepatocellular carcinoma |
Beier, Juliane I., Ph.D. | 2012-2018 | Assistant Professor | Interactions of diet and environmental toxins in the production of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease |
Eaton, John E., Ph.D. | 2000-2018 | Professor (Secondary Appointment) | Biological oxidation/reduction reactions with special emphasis on inflammatory diseases and neoplasia |
Ye, Hong, Ph.D. | 2004-2018 | Assistant & Associate Professor (Secondary Appointment) | Notch signaling pathway and tumorigenesis
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Zacharias, Wolfgang, Ph.D. | 2000-2019 | Associate Professor; Professor (Secondary Appointments) | Gene expression |
Miller, Donald M., M.D., Ph.D. | 2000-2019 | Professor (Secondary Appointment) | Molecular and clinical oncology |
Cunningham, Albert R., Ph.D. | 2007-2019 | Associate Professor (Secondary Appointment) | Structure-Activity Relationship Modeling |
| 1969-2019 | Assistant Professor; Associate Professor; Professor; Professor Emeritus | Drug effects on the brain | |
Antimisiaris, Demetra, PharmD. | 2015-2019 | Associate Professor | Polypharmacy |
Keller, Bradley, B., M.D. | 2010-2020 | Professor (Secondary appointment) | Cardiovascular development and bioengineering |
Epstein, Paul N., Ph.D. | 2000-2020 | Professor (Secondary appointment) | Diabetes and complications of diabetes |
Uchida, Suzuka, Ph.D. | 2019-2020 | Associate Professor (Secondary appointment) | Cardiac regeneration with long coding RNA |
Damodaran, Chendil, Ph.D. | 2014-2021 | Associate Professor (Secondary appointment) | Prostate cancer treatment |
Rodgers, George C., M.D., Ph.D. | 1978-2021 | Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor (Secondary appointment) | Toxicokinetics in drug overdoses and pharmacokinetics in pediatric disease states |
| 2011-2021 | Professor | Development of new preventive vaccines based on advanced vaccine technologies | |
| 2015-2021 | Instructor; Assistant Professor | Development of proteins and biologicals for therapeutic and diagnostic indications; Regulatory pharmacology | |
Lee, Donghan, Ph.D. | 2016 - 2021 | Professor (Secondary Appointment) | Structural biology |
Freedman, Jonathan H., Ph.D. | 2015 - 2021 | Professor | Exposures to environmental factors in the development and/or exacerbation of human diseases |
Bahaitkar, Juhi, Ph.D. | 2017-2022 | Assistant Professor; Associate Professor (Secondary Appointment) | Immunological consequences of apoptotic cell clearance during inflammation and infection |
Steinbach-Rankins, Jill M., Ph.D. | 2013 - 2022 | Assistant Professor; Associate Professor (Secondary Appointment) | Developing drug delivery vehicles for physiologically challenging microenvironments |
Whittemore, Scott R., Ph.D. | 2018 - 2022 | Professor (Secondary Appointment) | Neuroprotection and regeneration |
Roberts, Craig S., M.D. | 2016 - 2022 | Professor (Secondary Appointment) | Orthopaedic Surgery |
Rai, Shesh N., Ph.D. | 2013 - 2022 | Professor (Secondary Appointment) | Clinical trials, survival analysis, bioinformatics, quantitative risk assessment |
Joshi-Barve, Swati, Ph.D. | 2012 - 2022 | Assistant Professor; Associate Professor (Secondary appointment) | Mechanisms of steatohepatitis, immune dysfunction, and hepatocellular carcinoma |
Feng, Wenke, Ph.D. | 2012 - 2022 | Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor (Secondary and Primary appointments) | Mechanisms of alcoholic liver disease; Mechanisms of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis |
Guo, Yiru, M.D. | 2011 - 2022 | Associate Professor, Professor (Secondary appointment) | Mouse models of coronary ischemia/reperfusion injury |
Pisano, M. Michelle, Ph.D. | 2000 - 2023 | Associate Professor, Professor (Secondary appointment) | Birth defects; reproductive toxicology |
Hong, Kyung U., Ph.D. | 2015-2023 | Assistant Professor (Secondary and Primary appointments) | Precision environmental health |
Mohamed, Tamer M.A., Ph.D. | 2022-2023 | Associate Professor (Secondary) | Novel therapies for heart failure |
Nystoriak, Matthew A., Ph.D. | 2015-2024 | Assistant Professor (Secondary) Associate Professor (Secondary) | Regulation of vascular calcium signaling and blood flow in diabetes |
Brier, Michael E., Ph.D. | 1997-2024 | Associate Professor (Secondary) Professor (Secondary) | Drug dosing in renal failure |
Sullivan, Janice E., M.D. | 1995-2025 | Assistant, Associate, Full Professor (Secondary) | Clinical pharmacology |
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