F. Lamar Pritchard

Dean, College of Pharmacy

Dr. F. Lamar Pritchard joined the University of Houston as dean of the College of Pharmacy on Aug. 1, 2009.

Previously, Pritchard had been both dean of the College of Health Sciences (July 2004 to July 2005) and dean of the College of Pharmacy (August 2005 to present) at the University of Louisiana at Monroe.  He has led and managed eight separate health science programs, 193 faculty and staff and 4,400 students. Development giving to the University of Louisiana College of Pharmacy increased six-fold under Pritchard's leadership.

Pritchard is a fourth-generation pharmacist with broad experience including retail, clinical and hospital pharmacy; the pharmaceutical industry; and as a faculty member at the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy. His Phar-Ser-Qual pharmacy services quality assessment instrument has been used in six different countries.

Before becoming dean at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, Pritchard was the medical science manager at Bristol-Myers Squibb. There, he was responsible for the development and implementation of trials and pre-launch activities for several new drugs, and made medical presentations in the areas of cardiology, neurology and endocrinology to audiences of professionals in internal medicine and family practice physicians.

He provided medical science and research support, as well as targeted research initiatives, for major medical academic/research centers in the District of Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina regions.

"During my interview visits, I was impressed with the UH College of Pharmacy - particularly the faculty, staff, students, alumni and laudable heritage," Pritchard said. "I was also highly impressed with the leadership” of the administration.
 
Pritchard said he will initially work to achieve increased funding for the program, build a new state-of-the-art Pharmacy facility, recruit additional faculty who have key skill sets and develop the University of Houston Center for Drug Discovery that will provide a foundation that will bring together the strengths of many research disciplines across the UH campus and beyond.
Pritchard earned his Ph.D. in pharmacy administration at the University of Georgia and his B.S. in pharmacy from the University of Georgia School of Pharmacy in Athens, Ga.

He and his wife, Judy, have two children, Matt, 20, and Rebecca, 18.