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List of Professors
| Name |
Years at Michigan |
Position | |
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Jonathan Adams Allen |
1850 - 1854 | Professor of Therapeutics, Materia Medica and Physiology |
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Alonzo Benjain Palmer |
1854 - 1887 |
Professor of Matera Medica, Therapeutics, Diseases of Women and Children, Pathology & Theory and Practice of Medicine Dean of the Medical School |
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George Edward Frothingham |
1867 - 1889 | Professor of Ophthalmology and Aural Surgery, Materia Medica, Ophthalmic and Aural Surgery, and Clinical Opthalmology |
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Frederic Henry Gerrish |
1873 - 1875 | Professor of Therapeutics, Materia Medica, and Physiology |
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Henry Sylvester Cheever |
1876 | Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica |
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Arthur Robertson Cushny |
1893 - 1905 | Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics |
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Charles Wallis Edmunds |
1902 - 1941 | Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica |
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Erwin Ellis Nelson |
1919 - 1937 | Professor of Pharmacology |
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Helen Bourquin |
1928 - 1929 | Assistant Professor of Pharmacology |
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Ralph Grafton Smith |
1928 - 1943 | Associate Professor of Pharmacology |
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Nathan Browne Eddy |
1931 | Research Professor of Pharmacology |
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Jacob Sacks |
1932 - 1944 | Assistant Professor of Pharmacology |
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John Howard Ferguson |
1937 - 1943 | Assistant Professor of Pharmacology |
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Maurice H. Seevers |
1942 - 1973 |
Professor of Pharmacology Chair of Department of Pharmacology |
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Frederick Earl Shideman |
1944 - 1952 | Associate Professor of Pharmacology |
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Lauren Albert Woods |
1946 | Professor of Pharmacology |
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Mark Nickerson |
1951 - 1954 | Associate Professor of Pharmacology |
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Kenneth W. Cochran |
1952 - 1989 |
Professor of Epidemiology Associate Professor of Pharmacology |
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Edward F. Domino |
1953 - 2000 | Professor of Pharmacology |
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Theodore M. Brody |
1953 - 1966 | Professor of Pharmacology |
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Harold F Hardman |
1953 - 1960 | Assistant Professor of Pharmacology |
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Henry H. Swain |
1954 - 1991 | Professor of Pharmacology |
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Lloyd Beck |
1956 - 1970 | Professor of Pharmacology |
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Lawrence B. Mellett |
1957 - 1958 | Instructor U.S. Public Health Service |
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Edward J Cafruny |
1957 - 1965 | Associate Professor of Pharmacology |
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Donald R. Bennett |
1958 - 1965 | Associate Professor of Pharmacology |
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Gerald A Deneau |
1958 | Assistant Professor of Pharmacology |
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Kiro Shimamoto |
1960 - 1961 | Visiting Professor of Pharmacology |
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Raymond E. Counsell |
1964 - 1996 |
Professor of Pharmacology Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmacy |
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Raymond W. Ruddon Jr. |
1964 - 2006 | Professor of Pharmacology |
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Benedict R. Lucchesi |
1964 - 2016 | Professor of Pharmacology |
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Jerry L. Laughlin |
1965 - 1966 | Assistant Professor of Pharmacolgnosy |
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Thomas R. Tephly |
1965 - 1971 | Associate Professor of Pharmacology |
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James H. Woods |
1965 - 2016 |
Professor of Pharmacology Professor of Psychology |
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Edward A. Carr Jr. |
1967 | Professor of Pharmacology and Internal Medicine |
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Fedor Medzihradsky |
1969 - 1998 | Professor of Biological Chemistry & Pharmacology |
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William B. Pratt |
1973 - 2005 | Professor of Pharmacology |
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Bert N. LaDu |
1974 - 1989 | Professor of Pharmacology |
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Wendell W. Weber |
1974 - 1998 | Professor of Pharmacology |
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Vincent G. Zannoni |
1974 - 1994 | Professor of Pharmacology |
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Gail D. Winger |
1975 - 2009 | Research Professor |
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Beverly S. Mitchell |
1977 - 1991 | Professor of Internal Medicine and Pharmacology |
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Marshal Shlafer |
1977 - 2016 | Professor of Pharmacology |
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Ronald W. Holz |
1977 - 2021 | Professor of Pharmacology |
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Margaret E. Gnegy |
1977 - 2021 | Professor of Pharmacology |
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Tetsufumi Ueda |
1978 - 2017 |
Professor of Pharmacology Research Professor, Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience Institute |
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Thomas E. Carey |
1978 - 2019 |
Research Scientist & Professor of Otolaryngology Professor of Pharmacology |
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Richard Robert Neubig |
1981 - 2013 |
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Cardiology Professor of Pharmacology |
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Robert U. Simpson |
1982 - 2019 | Professor of Pharmacology |
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Jonathan Maybaum |
1983 - 2022 |
Professor of Pharmacology Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology |
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William R. Mancini |
1984 - 2001 | Assistant Professor of Pharmacology |
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Stephen K Fisher |
1985 - 2012 |
Professor of Pharmacology Research Professor, MBNI |
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Thomas D. Landefeld |
1987 - 1996 | Associate Professor of Pharmacology |
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Craig Harris |
1988 - 2020 |
Professor of Toxicology Professor of Nutritional Sciences |
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Paul F. Hollenberg |
1994 - 2016 | Professor of Pharmacology |
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Laurence H. Baker |
1994 - 2019 | Professor of Internal Medicine & Pharmacology |
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Helen A. Baghdoyan |
1999 - 2014 |
Professor of Anesthesiology Professor of Pharmacology Professor of Psychiatry |
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Angel W. Lee |
2001 - 2002 | Assistant Professor of Pharmacology |
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Roger K. Sunahara |
2001 - 2015 | Professor of Pharmacology |
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Jose A. Esteban |
2002 - 2004 | Assistant Professor of Pharmacology |
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Gabrielle Rudenko |
2004 - 2014 | Assistant Professor of Pharmacology |
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Jeffrey Randall Martens |
2004 - 2014 | |
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Mei Chuan Ko |
2008 | Research Associate Professor Pharmacology |