UC names Dean of the James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy

Valerio Ferme, PhD, executive vice president for academic affairs and provost for the University of Cincinnati (UC), announced the appointment today of Christopher Surratt, PhD, as dean of the James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy. 

Surratt, who will join UC July 1, 2022, pending approval by the UC Board of Trustees, currently serves as associate dean of research and graduate programs for the Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences at Long Island University.

“It is a pleasure to welcome Dr. Surratt as the next leader of UC’s James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy,” says Provost Valerio Ferme, PhD. “His knowledge in pharmaceutical sciences and graduate education coupled with his research expertise will be instrumental in growing the profile of the college and positioning it for decades of high-impact research and scholarly activity.” 

Prior to joining Long Island University, Surratt spent 17 years at Duquesne University. He joined Duquesne in 2001 as assistant professor of pharmacology, was named division head of Pharmaceutical Sciences while a tenured associate professor of pharmacology in 2007 and served as professor of pharmacology from 2011 to 2018. Surratt has held previous academic and research positions at the University of Virginia, the University of California - Berkeley, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.

Surratt’s research has focused on drug mechanisms of action and medications development for neurological diseases and disorders such as depression, anxiety and psychostimulant abuse. He has served as a grant reviewer for numerous National Institutes of Health study sections and served on the editorial advisory board of the scientific journal ACS Chemical Neuroscience. 

Surratt earned both a BA and PhD in chemistry from the University of Virginia.