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Dr. David E. Smith is the John G. Wagner Collegiate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Michigan, College of Pharmacy, and a member of the Comprehensive Cancer Center and Michigan Gastrointestinal Peptide Research Center in the School of Medicine. He served as Founding Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences from 1999-2010. Dr. Smith received his B.S. in Pharmacy from the State University of New York at Buffalo (1975) and his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the University of California San Francisco (1981).  Upon completing his doctoral thesis, he joined the faculty at the University of Michigan as an Assistant Professor of Pharmacy. Dr. Smith is a Fellow of both the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (1998) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012). He served on the Pharmacology Study Section of the National Institutes of Health from 1998-2002. Dr. Smith received the James R. Gillette Drug Metabolism and Disposition Best Paper Award from the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics on two separate occasions (2002 and 2008), and served as Editor of the journal Pharmaceutical Research (2001-2017). In 2003, he received both the College of Pharmacy Teaching Excellence Award and the Student Appreciation Award. Dr. Smith has 156 publications in prominent journals and books, and over 140 invited presentations to academic institutions, pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, and regulatory agencies. During his career, Dr. Smith made many important scientific contributions, including those on the kinetic-dynamic relationship of loop diuretics, the determinants of renal drug elimination, the regional pharmacokinetics of anticancer drugs, and the cellular and molecular biology, physiology and pharmacology of proton-coupled oligopeptide transporters. Dr. Smith is most proud of the 33 doctoral students, 11 postdoctoral fellows and visiting scholars, and 17 professional pharmacy students he has mentored over the years, and who continue to add scholarship, understanding and insight to the pharmaceutical, biomedical and clinical sciences.