The Script: Dean Roger Davis promoted to vice provost
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Lipscomb's first pharmacy dean promoted to vice provost
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Roger Davis, dean of the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, has been promoted to vice provost of health affairs, Provost Craig Bledsoe recently announced.
“In the last decade, Lipscomb’s health sciences programs have grown exponentially both in academic programs and facilities,” said Bledsoe. “With the large presence of health care programs on campus and with more expansion in the future, I have appointed Dr. Roger Davis vice provost for health affairs.
“Dr. Davis has played a key role in building Lipscomb’s College of Pharmacy from the ground up into a thriving leader in pharmacy education and in forming the College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences to bring all of the university’s health care related disciplines under one entity,” Bledsoe said.
“He has also overseen the addition of the state-of-the-art Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Center, the Nursing and Health Sciences Center and the expansion of the on-campus Health Services office serving students, faculty and staff. His leadership, vision and insight will be critical as Lipscomb expands its health sciences academic, service and development.
“This new vice provost role will bring integration across all health science programs and provide a comprehensive structure as the institution engages more collaboratively with other health care entities, Bledsoe said. “The goal will be to strategically build on Lipscomb’s strong foundation in providing quality health care education and to broaden our leadership in this field in our community.”
Davis was a former assistant dean for Middle Tennessee at the University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy, when he was appointed dean of Lipscomb’s College of Pharmacy in January 2007. That was less than three months after the Lipscomb Board of Trustees approved the creation of a College of Pharmacy – the third pharmacy school approved in the state and the first in Middle Tennessee.
At the University of Tennessee, Davis was a member of the faculty for more than 25 years and the assistant dean for Middle Tennessee for 10 years.
Since his appointment at Lipscomb, the university began offering a growing, independent Bachelor of Nursing degree; has established a research Ph.D. pathway program for student pharmacists, created a sports nutrition program, created the Health Simulation Laboratory, a sterile drug compounding laboratory and the Human Performance Laboratory, and has launched a physician assistant program and an online RN-to-BSN program.