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ACP News
ACP advances academic expansion
with appointments of two associate deans
ALBANY, N.Y. (December 6, 2006) - George R. Bailie, Pharm.D., Ph.D., and Angela
C. Dominelli '78, Ph.D., have been named associate deans as ACP continues
to expand its academic and research programs, Dean Mehdi Boroujerdi, Pharm.D.,
Ph.D., has announced.
Dr. Bailie will serve as associate dean of research and graduate education, and Dr. Dominelli will serve as associate dean of academic and professional affairs.
Dr. Bailie Dr. Dominelli '78
"The leadership of Dr. Bailie and Dr.
Dominelli will be invaluable as we raise the profile of the institution by advancing undergraduate and graduate education, post-graduate training programs and research in pharmacy, pharmaceutical sciences and health sciences," Dr. Boroujerdi said.
ACP expanded from three academic departments to four over the summer and now from two associate deans to three (John Denio is associate dean of student affairs). The broader administrative structure will support new academic programming under development as ACP prepares its 2007-12 Comprehensive Strategic Plan.
A professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice, Dr. Bailie joined the ACP faculty in 1988. His research interests include examination of medication prescription patterns and assessment of associated outcomes in chronic kidney disease. He has participated in the development of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for several authoritative bodies, such as the National Kidney Foundation's Kidney Diseases Outcomes Quality Initiative and the International Society of Peritoneal Dialysis.
A founding member of the college's Albany Nephrology Pharmacy Group (ANephRx), Dr. Bailie has supervised numerous funded projects and published extensively in medical and pharmacy literature, predominantly in nephrology. He serves on the editorial board for many pharmacy and nephrology journals, and was the first pharmacist granted fellowship in the American Society of Nephrology.
Dr. Bailie also is a fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy and The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
Dr. Bailie received his B.Sc. in Pharmacy from the Queen's University of Belfast , Northern Ireland , and his M.Sc. in Pharmacology from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. He held a number of positions in hospital pharmacy in Glasgow before going to the University of Minnesota to complete his Pharm.D. He returned to the United Kingdom as a faculty member at the University of Manchester and as director of pharmacy at one of the city's major teaching hospitals. In Manchester he developed a nephrology research and teaching program, and commenced work for his Ph.D. in Clinical Pharmacy from the University of Wales.
Dr. Dominelli has been a member of the ACP faculty since 2000. An associate professor of pharmacy administration in the Department of Pharmacy Practice, her research and teaching interests include pharmacy administration, total quality management in health care, institutional pharmacy administration and the social aspects associated with health care delivery. She serves on the board of directors for the Business and Healthcare Association.
Prior to joining ACP, Dr. Dominelli held various positions in health care administration. Most recently, she served as director of product development at Novalis Corp. in Albany. For 10 years previously, she held a number of positions of increasing responsibility within EDS Corp., including deputy project manager responsible for monitoring all operations related to the New York State Elderly Pharmaceutical Coverage (EPIC) program. She also served as the manager of the prescription drug program for Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shields, and has worked for both MVP Health Plan and CVS Pharmacy.
Dr. Dominelli received her B.S. in Pharmacy from ACP in 1978, as well as an MBA in Health Care Administration and a Ph.D. in Administrative and Engineering Science from Union College . Dr. Dominelli holds the rank of associate professor of pharmacy administration in the Department of Pharmacy Practice.
Founded in 1881, ACP is the oldest pharmacy school in the state and one of the only private, independent pharmacy schools in the U.S. The college has a long history of serving its students and health care professionals as one of the premier pharmacy colleges in the nation. The college now enters a new era in health care with a focus, not only on pharmacy, but also on pharmaceutical sciences, biomedical technology and research.