THE PURDUE
PHARMACIST
PURDUE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PHARMACY AND PHARMACAL SCIENCES
Vol. 64
Spring 1987
No. 2
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It is a pleasure to announce that Charles
O. Rutledge, professor and chairman of the
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology in the University of Kansas School of
Pharmacy, has been appointed dean of the
Purdue University Schools of Pharmacy,
Nursing, and Health Sciences.
The Appointment has been confirmed by
the Board of Trustees and becomes effective July 1, 1987.
Rutledge, who is also associate director of
the Center for Biomedical Research at the
University of Kansas' main campus at
Lawrence, succeeds Varro E. Tyler, who
was appointed executive vice president for
demic affairs last July after 20 years as
of pharmacy.
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In announcing the appointment President
Steven C. Berring said, "It is a pleasure
to welcome Charles Rutledge to the Purdue team. His credentials as a scholar, educator and administrator and his outstanding personal qualities make him the ideal
choice to lead the finest pharmacy school
in the country into the 21st century. I'm
very pleased he has accepted the appointment, and I look forward to working with
him."
Rutledge, a registered pharmacist in Kansas, has been on the University of Kansas
pharmacy faculty since taking his current
post in 1975. Before that he was in the
pharmacology department of the University of Colorado School of Medicine for
nine years and earlier spent a year as a
North Atlantic Treaty Organization postdoctoral fellow at Sweden's University at
Gothenburg after receiving a Ph.D. degree
in pharmacology from Harvard University in 1966.
His research interests lie principally in neuropharmacology, the scientific study of the
effects of drugs on the nervous system, and
he has published extensively in this area
of study. He is the author or co-author of
some 130 publications in the field.
He has been active in numerous scientific
and professional organizations, notably the
American Heart Association, which has
funded some of his research, and the
American Society for Pharmacology and
Experimental Therapeutics. For the latter,
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he is chairman of the executive committee of its neuropharmacology section,
chairman of the Committee on Ethics in
Professional Affairs, and a former
councillor.
Rutledge has held a number of visiting
professorships including stints at the
University of California at Berkeley and
Central University of Venezuela. Since
1976 he has been Victoria Professor of
Pharmacology at Victoria College of Pharmacy in Victoria, Australia.
He has been on a number of National Institutes of Health review committees, including that of the National Institute on Aging's Centers for Alzheimer's Research,
and has reviewed graduate programs for
several universities, including that of Purdue's Department of Pharmacology and
Toxicology.
Born in Topeka, Kansas, Rutledge
received a B.S. in pharmacy and an M.S.
in pharmacology from the University of
Kansas at Lawrence.
Dean Rutledge will make monthly visits to
the West Lafayette campus until July 1,
when he will move here permanently.
We welcome Dean Rutledge, his wife
Jane, and their children to Purdue University and to West Lafayette, and we are very
pleased, indeed, that they will be joining
us soon.