Professional Biography
Dr. Mary Anne Koda-Kimble is dean of the School of Pharmacy at the University of California, San Francisco, where she also holds the Thomas J. Long Endowed Chair in Community Pharmacy Practice. Dr. Koda-Kimble received her Pharm.D. from UCSF in 1969, and joined its faculty in 1970. She is a member of the USP (United States Pharmacopoeia) Board of Trustees and recently completed a five-year term on the American Council of Pharmaceutical Education Board of Directors, a body that accredits schools of pharmacy and continuing education providers. She is a past president of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and has served on the California State Board of Pharmacy, the Food and Drug Administration's Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee, and many other boards and task forces of national professional associations. Dr. Koda-Kimble is the recipient of many teaching and practice awards. She was designated a "Founding Member and Distinguished Practitioner" of the National Academy of Practice in Pharmacy, and in 2000, she was elected to the prestigious Institute of Medicine for her major contributions to health and medicine. Dr. Koda-Kimble is frequently invited to address national and international groups and has many publications, the best known of which is Applied Therapeutics, a text widely used by health professional students and practitioners throughout the world.