Pre-Pharmacy Program
Susan I. Jarvi, Ph.D.
Director of Pre-Pharmacy
The Dean of the college of Pharmacy has appointed Dr. Susan I. Jarvi as Director of the Pre-Pharmacy Program at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Dr. Jarvi received her Ph.D. in Biology from Northern Illinois University in 1989, her M.S. degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1986 and a B.S. in Education from Fitchburg State College in 1983. She completed post-doctoral research studies at the Beckman Research Institute at the City of Hope National Medical Center from 1990-1993 and at the Molecular Genetics Laboratory of the Smithsonian Institution from 1993-1995. She continued as an Associate Research Scientist with USGS-BRD (Pacific Islands Ecosystems Research Center) and the Smithsonian Institution from 1995 until her hire by the Biology Department at the University of Hawaii at Hilo in 2000. In addition to her current position as Director of the Pre-Pharmacy Program, she serves as an Associate Professor and Chair of Biology, Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Director of the Genetics Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Avian Studies at UHH.
Linda Connelly, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dr. Linda Connelly, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical
Sciences, will be working on strengthening the pre-pharmacy program, and
will teach in both the Pre-Pharmacy and PharmD programs, including the
Physiology part of PHPS 509 Pathophysiology for the P1 students in the
Spring. Dr. Connelly hopes to continue research on the role of the
tumor microenvironment in the development and progression of breast
cancer and the links between inflammation and tumorigenesis. She moved
to Hilo from Nashville, Tenn. where she was a research fellow/instructor
at Vanderbilt University. She received her bachelor's degree in
biochemistry from the University of Glasgow and her Ph.D. in molecular
pharmacology from Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research at
University College in London. She has won several awards, including the
Wellcome International Prize Travelling Research Fellowship, the Medical
Research Council PhD Studentship and the Davidson Prize for Biochemistry
from the University of Glasgow.