Dr. James Halpert, former ASPET president and secretary-treasurer and 2010 winner of the Bernard B. Brodie Award in Drug Metabolism became the eighth Dean of the School of Pharmacy at the University of Connecticut in June 2014.
Dr. Halpert brings to the position a wealth of leadership experience. Prior to accepting the deanship, he was the associate dean of scientific affairs at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California San Diego and was previously chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Texas Medical Branch.
He has made seminal contributions to our understanding of the structural basis of drug metabolism and has been at the forefront of studies on cytochromes P450 2B and 3A subfamilies.
Dr. Halpert began this new chapter of his already accomplished career on June 1, 2014. He has been as ASPET member since 1985.