David D. Allen, R.Ph., Ph.D., is Dean of Pharmacy and Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy and Executive Director of and Research Professor in the Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences at UM. He received his bachelor's degree in pharmacy at the University of Kentucky and then worked in community pharmacy for several years before returning to the University of Kentucky to earn his doctorate in pharmaceutical sciences. In addition, Allen served as an intramural research training award postdoctoral fellow at NIH in Bethesda, Maryland. He has had grant support for his research from international, national, state and local funding sources, including the NIH, the American Heart Association, the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, the Chilean government and industrial sources. Previously he served as Dean of Pharmacy and Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Northeast Ohio Medical University College of Pharmacy (formerly Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Pharmacy) in Rootstown, Ohio and Associate Dean of Curricular Affairs at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Pharmacy in Amarillo, Texas. Allen has published 73 peer-reviewed articles, 41 professional publications, 97 abstracts, contributed to four books and presented his work over 150 times across the United States and abroad.