College History

The University of Houston College of Pharmacy was established with the approval of the University of Houston Board of Regents on October 16, 1946. A committee comprised of pharmacists and related professionals worked with the university to establish the college and support its operations, and Houston physician and pharmacist Allan Collette served as acting dean.

The college opened in 1947 with an enrollment of 144. It was accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education in 1950, and forty-one students received a bachelor of science in pharmacy in that year.

The College of Pharamacy was originally housed in the science building on the University of Houston campus. It moved to new quarters in the Lamar Fleming building in 1963.

The Ph.D. program in pharmacology and a program in pharmaceutics were approved in 1987.

In 1981 the pharmacy building at the Texas Medical Center was completed. Throughout the 1990's the first semesters of the pharmacy program have been taught on the main campus and the last three semesters at the Medical Center.

Dr. Sunny E. Ohia, Ph.D., took office as College of Pharmacy Dean effective October 1, 2002.