
Elmore H. Taylor
President (1968-1969)
Elmore Taylor received his bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy from the Univ. Saskatchewan in
1956, and a M.S. in 1957. He received a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Purdue
University in 1960. In the fall of 1960, he accepted a faculty position at the College of Pharmacy
at the Univ. Tennessee Medical Center, and in the following year was
appointed Chairman of the Department of Pharmacognosy, establishing an
active research program in pharmacognosy there. In 1966, he was elected
Chairman of the Biological Sciences section of the American Association
of Colleges of Pharmacy. During the academic year 1969-1970, he served
as a visiting professor of pharmacognosy at the Univ. London. In 1971, he
was invited to join the faculty at the Univ. Illinois Medical Center (now,
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UIC) in the Department of Pharmacognosy and Pharmacology. Shortly thereafter, he was asked
to serve as Associate Dean of the College of Pharmacy, and in 1986, he was appointed Executive
Dean of the UIC College of Pharmacy. In 1972-1973, he served as Chairman of the
Pharmacognosy and Natural Products section of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences. At
UIC, he was actively involved in developing the B.S. of Pharmacy Degree Program in both
conventional and self-study formats, and was key to developing a mandatory Pharm. D. program
at UIC. Since retiring, he volunteers many hours each year through AARP-TCE, SHIP, Habitat
for Humanity, and Samaritans Purse. (EHT)