Charlie Sands III, dean of Samford University’s McWhorter School of Pharmacy, is preparing for an upcoming one-year sabbatical to help establish a new pharmacy school in a restricted-access country in Asia.
Sands, who has led Samford’s pharmacy school since 2008, has stepped down as dean but will remain a member of the Samford pharmacy faculty, returning to campus following his sabbatical, which begins Sept. 1.
Sands and his wife, Elizabeth, served with the International Mission Board as medical missionaries to Asian countries on several occasions beginning in 1971 in South Korea. In 1991 they became faculty members at Yanbian University Medical College in Yanji, China.
Sands joined the faculty at McWhorter School of Pharmacy in 1997.
“This is a very exciting opportunity to continue and perhaps complete the ministry in Asia which we originally received in the Lord,” Sands
said.
Samford Provost and Executive Vice President J. Bradley Creed said Sands “has been a leader with a world vision for
education, missions and preparing health professionals for service.”
“I am pleased that he will return to Samford after his sabbatical as a faculty member where he will continue to have an impact on the lives of our students,” he said.
Creed appointed Michael Hogue, chair of the pharmacy practice department in the School of Pharmacy, as interim dean. Samford will announce plans later to conduct a national search for Sands’ successor.
Sands said he would remain on the faculty in July and August to assist the interim dean.
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