Cooper Memorial Program, lab dedication Oct. 9

By ELLEN GOLDBAUM
News Services Editor

The pharmacy products laboratory will be renamed the Robert M. Cooper Professional Practice Laboratory in a ceremony to be held at 3:30 p.m. in Room 222 of Cooke Hall.

The first Robert M. Cooper Memorial Program, "Changing the Scope of Pharmacy Practice," will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Center for Tomorrow. The program will focus on proposed New York State legislation that would result in the expansion of pharmacy practice. The legislation would permit pharmacists to prescribe and, where appropriate, administer to patients certain drugs, immunizations, diagnostic tests and medical devices.

Opening remarks at the memorial program will be made by Wayne K. Anderson, interim dean of the UB School of Pharmacy.

Panelists will be Lawrence H. Mokhiber, executive secretary, New York State Board of Pharmacy; Michael A. Cimino, clinical coordinator of pharmacy and co-director, Clinical Pharmacology Center for Women and Children at Children's Hospital; Leonard G. Feld, professor of pediatrics at UB, vice chairman for practice in pediatrics at UB, chief of the Division of Pediatric Nephrology and director of the Children's Kidney Center at Children's Hospital, and Leo Fedor, associate dean of student affairs, UB School of Pharmacy and chair of the curriculum committee.

Cooper joined the pharmacy school in 1967 as a professor and went on to serve in other capacities, including assistant and associate dean, and chair and vice chair of the Department of Pharmacy. In 1993, he founded "Pharmacy Law," a newsletter on New York State practice requirements.

He was twice appointed to the New York Board of Pharmacy, served as its chairman for two years and received the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1976.