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50 Years of Pharmacy Service Fred Weissman has been an integral part of the USC School of Pharmacy for half a century. His fellow faculty members have long looked to him for wise leadership and expertise in pharmacy law, and he has mentored generations of pharmacy students. His service was exemplary and his retirement is well-deserved.”
Former Associate Dean Fred Weissman retires after decades as a dedicated teacher and renowned pharmacy law expert. After 50 years of distinguished service to USC, Fred Weissman, PharmD, JD, retired in June 2021. As a professor of clinical pharmacy at the School of Pharmacy, he made countless contributions to the school and the pharmacy profession. A second-generation pharmacist, Weissman earned a PharmD from USC in 1963. He practiced as a community pharmacist, hospital pharmacist and director of pharmacy services for St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, Calif. During the Vietnam War, he served as a military clinic pharmacist in Germany. His passion for pharmacy education began with his appointment as a teaching assistant at the USC School of Pharmacy in 1965. He joined the faculty in 1970. In addition to ongoing teaching, Weissman held leadership roles at the school, including associate dean of academic and clinical affairs from 1998 to 2012, and associate dean of faculty and student affairs from 2012 to 2017. “Fred Weissman has been an integral part of the USC School of Pharmacy
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for half a century,” Dean Vassilios Papadopoulos says. “His fellow faculty members have long looked to him for wise leadership and expertise in pharmacy law, and he has mentored generations of pharmacy students. His service was exemplary and his retirement is well-deserved.” Exceptional Expertise in Pharmacy Law Weissman earned a JD from Loyola Law School in 1989 and became widely known for his contributions to pharmacy law. In addition to numerous articles on pharmacy law and the evolution of clinical pharmacy practice, in 1997 he published the first edition of A Guide to California Community Pharmacy Law. The 10th edition was published in 2021. He taught the pharmacy law course at USC for
more than 25 years, led pharmacy law board-review sessions at universities across the country, served as an expert adviser for major health systems and was involved in creation of the PharmD/JD dual-degree program at USC. His students honored him as an outstanding teacher of the year four times. He was selected as USC Pharmacy Alumnus of the Year in 2002 and was inducted into the California Pharmacists Association Hall of Fame in 2020. His first wife, Adrianna “Terri” Weissman, who died in 2006, graduated from the School of Pharmacy in 1970. If you’d like to make a donation to the USC Terri and Fred Weissman Endowed Scholarship Fund, contact Cheryl Stanovich at stanovic@usc.edu.
