Marie Smith, Pharm.D.

Assistant Dean for Practice & Public Policy Partnerships

Dr. Henry A. Palmer Endowed Professor of Community Pharmacy Practice

Marie Smith is a seasoned pharmacy clinician-educator, health care strategist and change management executive with over 25 years experience across diverse practice arenas. At the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy, she is a professor and assistant dean for Practice and Public Policy Partnerships. She was named the first recipient of the Henry A. Palmer Endowed Professorship of Community Pharmacy Practice in 2010 and served as department head of Pharmacy Practice from 2006 to 2011. She is also co-director of UConn’s master's degree in Clinical and Translational Research and an affiliate of the UConn Center for Translating Research into Practice and Policy.

Her scholarly activities encompass working with multiple health care reform policymakers and stakeholders — CT Department of Social Services, CT Pharmacists Association, EHealth Connecticut, CT SustiNet Plan/Office of the Healthcare Advocate, primary care practices and patients — to address e-health/health informatics public policy issues and to create medication management programs that optimize medication use, enhance medication safety, and improve patient adherence in the primary care and patient-centered medical home practice settings.

Smith is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and Virginia Commonwealth University Schools of Pharmacy and completed a hospital pharmacy residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. In addition, she completed a fellowship in Change Management at Johns Hopkins University and post-graduate work in global leadership executive education at the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania) and INSEAD (France). In 2010, she was elected to the National Academies of Practice (Distinguished Pharmacy Practitioner) and has had numerous speaking invitations, publications and consultancies throughout her career.