Administrative Leadership

Wayne Kradjan, dean

Wayne Kradjan joined OSU in January 1999 as dean of the College of Pharmacy. His academic interests and classroom teaching relate to the pharmacotherapeutic applications of adult general medicine. Dr. Kradjan's research interests, publications, and lecturing include the pharmacokinetics and therapeutic effects of bronchodilators and oral hypoglycemic agents, and disease management of heart failure, lipid disorders, peptic ulcer disease, GERD, and hepatitis.

He was the principal investigator on two grants to assess the effects of community pharmacists' interventions on therapeutic outcomes in patients with asthma, and served as a consultant to the Washington State Professional Review Organization Heart Failure Management Program.

He is the author of the chapters on heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, section editor for the cardiovascular, pulmonary, and gastrointestinal-hepatic sections of the textbook Applied Therapeutic--The Clinical Use of Drugs, and a co-editor of the companion handbook for the same text.

Before coming to OSU, Dr. Kradjan was on the faculty at the University of Washington for 28 years having served at various times as director of the school's postbaccalaureate Pharm.D. program, chairman of the Department of Pharmacy, and associate dean for professional programs. He was a visiting faculty to the University of Manchester in England in 1980.

College of Pharmacy

The College of Pharmacy prepares the professional and graduate pharmacy students of today to be the pharmacy practitioners and pharmaceutical sciences researchers of tomorrow. The college contributes to improved health by advancing patient care and the discovery and understanding of medicines. The college's primary goals are professional and graduate instruction, research, service, and promotion of lifelong learning for its graduates.

College of Pharmacy graduates are eligible for licensing as pharmacists throughout the United States.

To be eligible for admission into the Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree program, students must complete a required pre-pharmacy curriculum, which requires approximately three years of college study. Completion of the pharmacy professional program requires an additional four years.

The Pharm.D. program is accredited by the American Council on Pharmaceutical Education. The degree is jointly conferred by OSU and the Oregon Health & Science University.