Dan Malone, PhD
Professor, Pharmacy Practice & Science
Dan Malone didn’t investigate the field of pharmacy until his junior undergraduate year. He says he chose pharmacy because he enjoys helping others and pharmacy let him combine his three academic strong suits: mathematics, chemistry and biology.
The professor is researching drug interactions on patients taking at least two different medications. His research focuses on whether new technology, such as PDAs, can get information about interactions among different drugs to the pharmacist and the prescriber more efficiently.
Born and raised in Colorado, Malone received his bachelor of pharmacy at the University of Colorado, and master of science and PhD from the University of Texas, Austin. He followed his education with a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington, joined the faculty at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, then hopped on board at UA in 1999.
“We’re a top-rated college of pharmacy program in the country, we have excellent faculty and great resources, and an established graduate program,” he says of COP.
“I feel very fortunate to have colleagues who are top of the class in many respects in the field of pharmacy,” he says, “and I have enjoyed educating people who will become future colleagues.
When he’s not teaching or conducting research, Malone bicycles and skis. His favorite ski mountains are back home in Colorado, although he says he does use Arizona’s slopes. Another of Malone’s hobbies is building model airplanes.