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Vice President I.K. Ho, Ph.D.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

• 1968
  Ph.D., Biochemistry, University of California, San Francisco
• 1962
  B.S., Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Professional Experience

• 2006 - present
  Vice President, National Health Research Institutes
• 2001 - 2006
  Dean, School of Graduate Studies in the Health Sciences, University of Mississippi Medical Center
• 1997 - 2001
  Interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Studies, University of Mississippi Medical Center
• 1982 - 2006
  Professor and Chairman, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Mississippi Medical Center
• 1993 - 2004
  Billy S. Guyton Distinguished Professor
  1996 - 2004
  formerly Frederick A. P. Barnard Distinguished Professor
  1993 - 1996
  University of Mississippi Medical Center
• 1978 - 1982
  Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Mississippi Medical Center
• 1975 - 1978
  Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Mississippi Medical Center
• 1974 - 1975
  Assistant Professor in Residence, Departments of Psychiatry and Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, California

Honors and Awards

• 2003 - 2006
  Member, Center for Disease Control Advisory Committee on Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention
• 1997 - 2001
  Member, Neurophysiology and Neuroanatomy Research Subcommittee, National Institute on Drug Abuse Initial Review Group
• 1995 - 2001
  Member, Membership Committee of International Union of Toxicology
• 1995 - 2000
  Associate Editor, Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology
• 1992 - 1997
  Member, Board of Scientific Counselors of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Department of Health and Human Services, U.S.A.
• 1990 - present
  Scientific Advisor, National Laboratories of Foods and Drugs, Department of Health, Republic of China
• 1985 - 1990
  Member, Expert Advisory Panel on Neurological and Psychiatric Disease, The United States Pharmacopeial Convention
• 1985 - 1989
  Member, Drug Abuse Biomedical Research Review Committee (Pharmacology Research Subcommittee), National Institute on Drug Abuse, Department of Health and Human Services
• 2000 - 2001
  President, Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America
• 2000
  Member of Merit of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan
• 1999
  Received the highest honor awarded in the health sciences from the Department of Health in Taiwan, the Republic of China
• 1999
  Fellow, The Academy of Toxicological Sciences
• 1998
  Award in Excellence for Basic Pharmacology, The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association Foundation
• 1998 - 1999
  President-Elect, Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America
• 1997 - 2000
  Councilor and Auditor, Asian Society of Toxicology
• 1996
  Member, Academia Sinica
• 1974 - 1976
  Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association Foundation, Faculty Development Award in Basic Pharmacology

Research Interests

• Development of addictive disorders on opioids, amphetamines and barbiturates
• Neurotoxicology of organophosphate cholinesterase inhibitors and lead