Decorated Professor and Aerosol Expert

Decorated Professor and Aerosol Expert Reflects on 50 Years at LIU

Dr. Anthony Cutie speaks during Commencement.

Among the great men and women in history, there are many who achieved prominence through a long-winding, circuitous route with many setbacks or metamorphic career changes. Dr. Anthony Cutie, professor of pharmacy and renowned aerosol expert, is not one of them.

For Dr. Cutie, the difficult path toward his prodigious accomplishments was straightforward and relatively direct. Simple is of course no synonym for facile, otherwise his peers would’ve charted a similar course. Indeed, the Brooklyn-born Dr. Cutie rode his impeccable academic achievements and an early inclination towards the STEM fields all the way to numerous remarkable distinctions within the medical record books. Since he began his career, he has authored a number of chapters on pharmaceutical aerosols, published over 50 papers, has secured over 45 aerosol patents and is presently active in aerosol research, product development and evaluating and testing environmentally safe replacements. “My life has been relatively simple. I didn’t move around a lot, I didn’t change jobs,” Dr. Cutie said. “I spent my whole life at Long Island University.” Dr. Cutie earned his bachelor’s degree from the Brooklyn College of Pharmacy, now LIU Pharmacy, and returned to the College after completing his master’s degree and PhD from Rutgers University. Since the return to Brooklyn in 1968, he has stayed true to his New York roots and only relocated out of the city to his current residence. “I was accepted into medical schools, but I wanted to be more of a researcher than a clinician,” Dr. Cutie said, adding that his other great vocational passion is teaching. “I love being in a classroom, there’s nothing more rewarding.” In his tenure at the Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences of Long Island University, Dr. Cutie is the only faculty member at Long Island University to be the recipient of the University’s four most prestigious awards. That being the Chancellor Award for Service and Scholarly achievements, The TASA Award for Research, The Newton Award for Teaching and The Founders Award for Innovation. Additionally, he has received the Salena Research Award, the Alumni Award, and the Rho Chi Award, and he has held numerous leadership positions at the University including associate dean of students for seven years and president of the AMS-AAUP Bargaining Unit Chapter for over 20 years. He has served as the director of the Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences and as director of pharmacy practice. Dr. Cutie’s contributions to the field are unparalleled as he has been extremely active in the formulation and reformulation of new chemical entities and generic metered dose aerosol products. He has served as a consultant for the FDA and has been an active member over the past 40 years with various USP committees, with the Aerosol Specification Committee and with the Pharmaceutical Aerosol Committee of AAPS. Dr. Cutie has consulted in aerosol formulations and related aerosol device technology for over 40 pharmaceutical companies, and related industry suppliers. He has also served as general vice chairman and then as general chairman for the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists.

Today, Dr. Cutie continues to lecture and chair aerosol technology in numerous courses both in the United States and abroad. He has been well recognized in the area of pharmaceutical aerosols and has been the recipient of awards for his numerous contributions. Still, nothing brings him more satisfaction than passing his knowledge on to future generations, leaving an incalculable legacy in the process. “I’ve had the pleasure of teaching over 10,000 pharmacists in my career. The whole state has only 20,000 pharmacists, so if you walked into a pharmacy, they’d probably know who I am,” he said. “When you don’t move around and you do what you love training future pharmacists, you can’t help but be well known.”