Faculty and Staff
Kevin B. Sneed, PharmD
Dean, University of South Florida College of Pharmacy/USF Health
Dr. Sneed is the founding Dean of the University of South Florida College of Pharmacy, and a tenured Associate Professor in the USF Department of Family Medicine. He was previously a tenured Associate Professor with the Florida A&M University College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. His educational background includes a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology with a concentration in Microbiology from the University of Central Florida. Dr. Sneed received his Doctor of Pharmacy Degree from Xavier University of Louisiana College of Pharmacy, where he received several clinical and leadership awards. He completed an Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Practice Specialty Residency at Bay Pines Veteran’s Administration Medical Center.
Dr. Sneed’s research interests include the pharmacological treatment of patients with Cardio-Metabolic Disorders, and examining Health Care Disparities. He is a natural lecturer on both topics. Recent research interests include reviewing the causes of Statin-Induced Myalgias, and possible contributing pharmacogenomic factors. He is a Co-Director of the Community Outreach and Engagement Core (CEOC) in the Center for Equal Health, a Center of Excellence partnership between USF Health and the Moffitt Cancer Center. He is very active in community healthcare initiatives. He also directs a community initiative known as IN-SHAPE, which is addressing cardiovascular disparities in African-American and Hispanic communities in Tampa, FL. He has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, and has participated in numerous grant projects and clinical trials.
Dr. Sneed is Chairman of the Cultural Health Initiatives Committee for the American Heart Association- Greater Southeast Affiliate. He also serves on a national advisory board with Humana, Inc., the Board of Directors with the Sickle Cell Anemia Association of Hillsborough County, the Gulfcoast North Area Health Education Center (AHEC), and the University of South Florida Diabetes Education Council Advisory Board. He participates in many community endeavors on an annual basis, most notably the Florida Cancer Education Network Men’s Health Forum in Tampa, FL. Dr. Sneed is very active in national and state organizations, among which include NPHA, ASHP, AACP, FPA, FSHP, and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.
Amy H. Schwartz, PharmD, BCPS
Associate Dean for Academic & Clinical Affairs
Education
Dr. Schwartz received her Bachelor of Science degree in Pharmacy from the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy in 1988, and Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in 1994.
Professional Experience
From 1995 through 2000 Dr. Schwartz was a faculty member at Midwestern University, Chicago College of Pharmacy during which time she developed clinical pharmacy services within a multi-specialty physician group practice. The Pharmacotherapy Clinic, a pharmacist-managed program, involved approximately 250 lives, the majority of whom were referred for Cardiovascular Risk Management. In 2001 Dr. Schwartz joined the faculty of Creighton University, School of Pharmacy and Health Professions where she was involved with the development of the Virtual Mentor Program for the newly developed web-based PharmD Pathway. Dr. Schwartz joined the faculty at the University of Southern Nevada College of Pharmacy in 2003 and held the position of Assistant Dean for Clinical Programs through 2005. Responsibilities included the administrative oversight of experiential training, preceptor development, residency development and continuing education. In July 2005 Dr. Schwartz spearheaded the development of post-graduate educational programming for the USN College of Pharmacy. From July 2006 through June 2010 Dr. Schwartz was Assistant Dean and Director of the Cooperative Pharmacy Program (CPP), a joint venture between the University of Texas – Pan American and the University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy. The mission of the CPP is to bring pharmacy education to an underserved region of Texas. The CPP also sought (through faculty and student initiatives) to enhance the awareness of pharmacy services throughout the region. Dr. Schwartz’s professional practice experiences have encompassed a variety of environments including community/retail, hospital, home health and pharmaceutical industry.
Didactic Responsibilities
Didactic responsibilities have included pharmacotherapeutics and pharmacology (pharmacy, physician assistant and nurse practitioner students), drug information, literature evaluation and research methods, professional development, experiential training, and specialty elective courses in advanced therapeutics, physical assessment, practice development and patient management.
Research Focus
Research interests include the evaluation of clinical services, professional socialization, and academic program assessment.
Professional Organizations
Dr. Schwartz is an active member of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, American Pharmacist Association, American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists and American College of Clinical Pharmacy.
Yashwant Pathak, M Pharm, EMBA, MS (Conflict Management), PhD
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
EducationYashwant Pathak has BPharm, MPharm, and PhD in Pharmaceutics from Nagpur University in India and postdoctoral training at Royal Free Hospital, London, UK, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and American Heart Fellowship at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. He completed his Executive MBA and MS in Conflict Management at Sullivan University, Louisville, KY, USA.
Professional Experience
Dr. Yashwant has worked in academics for over 15 years in various capacities -- as Chair and Professor and later as Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs, Assistant Dean of Research, and presently as Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at the University of South Florida (USF) College of Pharmacy, Tampa, Florida. He also directed the Center for Nanotechnology Education, Research and Applications (CENTRA) for two years. Here at USF Tampa he is associated with Nanotechnology Education and Research Center in College of Engineering and Translational Nanomedicine Center in the College of Medicine. He has several years of Industrial experience, the last job he had was director of R and D for formulation and drug delivery systems. Yashwant has over 100 research publications in many peer reviewed journals, abstracts, review articles and over 20 chapters in many books, and in pharmaceutical education. He has edited 4 books in Nanotechnology, 2 books in Nutraceuticals and many books in cultural studies. He has received several research grants, the recent one for Antioxidant nano delivery systems in neurodegenerative diseases.
PersonalDr. Pathak is actively involved in many professional organizations as well as cultural organizations and has organized many conferences in professional and cultural areas. He has travelled over 70 countries for professional and cultural work. His recent area of interest is eastern and indigenous perspectives in global sustainability and conflict resolution besides nanotechnology and Nutraceuticals and complimentary medicines.
Heather MW Petrelli, MA
Assistant Dean for Student Affairs and Assessment
Education
PhD candidate in Educational Leadership, Higher Education Administration Barry University, Miami, FL 2013. MA in Counseling Psychology, concentration in Bereavement Towson University, Towson, MD, 1998. BS in Psychology, Frostburg University, Frostburg, MD, 1994
Professional ExperienceHeather Petrelli comes to us from LECOM School of Pharmacy where she was an inaugural faculty member, the Director of Admissions and Student Services, and the Director of Assessment and Faculty Development. Her most recent previous position was Assistant Dean of Student Services at the University of Maryland, School of Pharmacy. Other previous positions include the Director of Academic Support and Career Services at Trinity University, and Psychological Counselor with Coppin University in Baltimore Maryland. Her teaching experience includes lecture in effective communications, medication adherence, social and behavioral aspects of pharmaceutical care, death and dying, general psychology, techniques of counseling, African American history, English composition, career development, freshman seminar, and instruction methods for peer tutoring.
Mrs. Petrelli began her student affairs career in residential life in 1991. Since that time, she has had the opportunity to focus on access to education and serving under-represented populations in the areas of counseling, academic support, academic advising, disability services, admissions, experiential learning, career services, records & registration, financial aid, residential life, and study abroad. She also has several years experience counseling the dually diagnosed and children, adolescents, and adults in the areas of bereavement and substance abuse prior to her entrance into higher education. She is an active member of the American Association of Colleges and Pharmacy, National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, National Career Development Association, National Tutoring Association, and the Association of Higher Education and Disability.
Research Focus
Assessment of learning outcomes and administration in higher education; Best practices for student development and admissions; Student generational differences in educational outcomes; Substance Abuse and Bereavement Counseling; Career Development.
Angela M. Hill, Pharm.D., BCPP
Chair of Pharmacy Practice
Education
Dr. Hill received her Pharm.D. from Florida A&M University College of Pharmacy in 1992. She completed a residency in 1997 in Neurology at the Neuroscience Foundation Inc. in Gainesville, Florida under the direction of Edric Bates, Pharm.D., MS as the first and only Dr. B.J. Wilder Pharmacy Resident. She became board certified in psychiatry in 1998. She holds certificates in smoking cessation, and Medication Therapy Management.
Professional Experience
Dr. Hill joined Florida A&M University’s College of Pharmacy in 1992 as an Assistant Professor. Her primary duties were to provide clinical pharmacy services and experiential education at Florida State Hospital. While there, she began her clinical research activities in mental health, and facilitating clinics such the Clozaril® Clinic and later the Neuroleptic Review and Seizure Clinics. In addition to Florida State Hospital, Dr. Hill has provided clinical pharmacy services and experiential training at Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare, Tallahassee Veterans Administration, and Apalachee Health Center in Tallahassee, Florida. Prior to joining USF as the Chair of Pharmacy Practice, Dr. Hill progressed to the rank of professor at Florida A&M University College of Pharmacy. She served as the Division Director for the Tallahassee Pharmacy Practice Campus from 1997 until her departure to University of South Florida. Under her guidance, she initiated and assisted in the management of contract pharmacies for the College. She has worked in retail pharmacy, and provided consultant pharmacy services for Medicaid, the Florida Department of Elder Affairs, CVS Pharmacy, and Kroger Pharmaceuticals to name a few. She is one of the pioneers of pharmacists’ involvement in Memory Disorder Clinics, and has been instrumental in providing community, caregiver, and healthcare education to individuals since 1997 in the areas of Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, and psychiatric disorders. Dr. Hill has precepted pharmacy residents and/or established programs for several different residency programs since 1999. Didactic responsibilities have included pharmacotherapeutics, Alternative Medicine, Patient Counseling Skills, Professional Development, drug information, research methods, experiential training (psychiatry, geriatrics, MTM, internal medicine), practice development, and patient management.
Research Focus
Research interests include Alzheimer’s disease, pharmacogenomics, depression, herbal medicine and medication adherence.
Professional Organizations:
Dr. Hill is an active member of American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, American Pharmacist Association, American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists, and College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists.
Associate Dean of International Research
Education
Nanchang University College of Medicine (China, MD), Sun Yat-sen University of Medical Sciences (China, Certificate in Clinical Oncology), The University of Auckland (New Zealand, PhD).
Institutions of Employment prior to USA
RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia, Associate Professor); Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane, Australia, Senior Lecturer), National University of Singapore (Singapore, Assistant Professor), The University of Auckland (Research Fellow), and Guangzhou College of Medicine & Guangzhou First People’s Hospital (Clinical Specialist in Gastroenterology).
Professional Experience
Dr Zhou is presently working for University of South Florida College of Pharmacy as a professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Professor Zhou completed his clinical medical training in China in 1989 and his PhD and postdoctoral training at the Faculty of Medicine, the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Since 2002, Dr Zhou has served as a faculty member for the National University of Singapore, Queensland University of Technology, and RMIT University.
Professor Zhou has published more than 320 peer-reviewed papers in various pharmacy, pharmacology, and medicine journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Cancer Research, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics and Clinical Cancer Research. He has also published 12 books and book chapters and more than 160 conference abstracts. His work has been cited more than 4,200 times by other colleagues. He has received more than US$5.0 million grants from various government funding bodies and industries. To date, he has trained 24 PhD students, 12 MSc/Honors students and 8 postdoctoral staff.
Dr Zhou serves as an editor for Drug, Healthcare and Patient Safety, Drug Metabolism Letters, and Current Drug Metabolism and is a reviewer for numerous medical and pharmacological journals. Dr Zhou has given more than 70 invited seminars/keynote presentations to a variety of institutes, government agencies, and high-profile international conferences, he is a recipient of several teaching and research awards, a member of several national and international professional societies, an a visiting professor of multiple universities.
Medical Discipline and Research Focus
Dr Zhou’s major research interests are drug metabolism, drug transport and pharmacokinetics, pharmacogenetics/pharmacogenomics, nanomedicine, and herbal medicines.
Jiazhi Sun, MD
Assistant Professor, Clinical and Molecular Biology, Department of Medicine
Education
