SPOKANE David A. Sclar, Boeing Distinguished Professor at the WSU College of Pharmacy, has been appointed interim chair of the department of health policy and administration at WSU Spokane.
Sclar began his additional duties on July 1, and replaces professor Winsor Schmidt, who left in May to join the faculty of the School of Medicine and the School of Public Health and Information Sciences at the University of Louisville.
Sclar, a WSU faculty member since 1991, has been affiliated with the health policy and administration program since 1999. He previously served as interim chair of the department, as well as the department of pharmacotherapy. Sclar received a bachelor of pharmacy from WSU in 1985, and a Ph.D. in business administration and pharmacy from the University of South Carolina in 1988.
He obtained post-graduate training at the Cornell University Administrative Management Institute for Higher Education in 1999, and the University of British Columbia Center for Management Development in 2001. Sclar previously served on the faculty of the School of Pharmacy and School of Medicine of the University of Southern California.
The department of health policy and administration grants a masters degree in health policy and administration.
