Jere Edwin Goyan
A memorial service will be held Friday, Feb. 23 for Jere Edwin Goyan, PhD, former dean of UCSF's School of Pharmacy and the only pharmacist to serve as commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration.
Goyan died peacefully at home in Kingwood, Texas on Jan. 17. He was 76.
The memorial service to celebrate his life is scheduled for 3 p.m. in the School of Nursing, room N 225, on the UCSF Parnassus campus. A reception will follow in the Lange Reading Room at the Kalmanovitz Library, 530 Parnassus Ave.
Known for his dynamic leadership in the field of pharmacy, Goyan is remembered at UCSF as a deft administrator, farsighted professional and a witty colleague. He led the effort to include clinical training in the education of pharmacists, first at UCSF and then nationwide. The curriculum changes initiated by Goyan and colleagues at UCSF transformed the profession into one whose practitioners are now drug therapy experts who provide health care counseling to patients in pharmacies, hospitals, clinics, and community settings.
He was dean of the UCSF pharmacy school from 1967 to 1992, taking a leave from October 1979 to January 1981 to serve as FDA commissioner under President Jimmy Carter.
The Goyan family has established the Dean Jere E. Goyan Memorial Fund, to be used for student and faculty development. Checks made out to the UCSF Foundation, noting the Jere E. Goyan Memorial Fund, can be mailed to PO Box 45339 San Francisco, CA 94145-0339. Gifts can also be made online. For more information, please contact
Marie Parfitt Pattie at 415/476-9806.
Related Links:
Former Pharmacy Dean and Head of FDA, Jere Goyan, Has Died
UCSF Today, January 19, 2007
