Daniel Acosta:  

Daniel's schools include Austin High School. Daniel works(ed) at University Of Cincinnati. QUALIFICATIONS OF DANIEL ACOSTA, JR Carl Chair of Pharmacy, Winkle College of Pharmacy, University of Cincinnati Daniel Acosta, Jr. was the 4th dean of the University of Cincinnati’s James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy from 1996 to 2011. He was a member of The University of Texas College of Pharmacy faculty where he helped develop a nationally ranked program in toxicology as the first Director of the Toxicology Training Program. Dr. Acosta was also responsible for encouraging minority students to consider careers in pharmacy and biomedical research through several federal and private grants. He is currently the Carl Chair of Pharmacy. As Dean of the Winkle College of Pharmacy at the University of Cincinnati, he worked closely with the faculty, staff, and administration to implement an entry-level Pharm.D.program, which resulted in the admission of its first class into the four-year curriculum in the Fall of 2000. During his tenure as Dean, he provided direction and resources to enhance the research and scholarly activities of the faculty, such that annual external grant funding has increased from $350,000 to close to $3,500,000. Through his leadership efforts, several new degree programs have been implemented in the professional and MS/PhD programs of the college, including one of the first national Master programs in drug development. He was the first and only Hispanic dean at the University of Cincinnati and the only Hispanic dean of pharmacy among the research-intensive colleges of pharmacy across the country. Through his efforts he established the College’s first Council on Diversity and has promoted the recruitment of qualified minority students into pharmacy. He was appointed the Joseph W. Carl Chair of Pharmacy for his many contributions to the College and University. He is very active in pharmacy organizations, such as the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education. He has served on the Academic Affairs, Graduate Studies, Nomination, and Faculty Development Committees for AACP; and has served on several ACPE site visit teams responsible for evaluating other schools of pharmacy for accreditation purposes. He was a member of the AACP Task Force on Faculty Workforce. He was nominated as one of two candidates for Chair, Council of Deans at AACP in 2010. In addition, he was the chair of three international panels responsible for reviewing the curriculum of three schools of pharmacy in the United Arab Emirates. He was the past-chair of the Council of Ohio Colleges of Pharmacy, an organization that promotes cooperation among the seven colleges in the education of pharmacy students in the state. He is active in numerous scientific and professional organizations, serves on several editorial boards of toxicology and in vitro journals, and has been appointed to a number of government and private committees. For example, he was the chairman of the FDA Scientific Advisory Board for the National Center for Toxicology Research; Past Chairman and current member of the Texas A&M External Advisory Board of the NIEHS Center for Environmental and Rural Health; a past member of the Board of Scientific Advisors for the Office of Research and Development of the Environmental Protection Agency; a past member of the National Advisory Committee to the Director of the Center for Environmental Health of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; a past member of the NIEHS Scientific Advisory Committee ...Expand for more