The Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences

Dennis Ming

Dr. Ming will join the faculty in September 2008 as the Pharmacy Law instructor.

Dr. Dennis Ming received his Pharmacy Doctorate from the University of California San Francisco School of Pharmacy in June 1969. Upon graduation he was employed as a clinical pharmacist at the Orange County Medical Center which eventually became the University of California Irvine Medical Center. He worked in all the clinical departments and initiated a pediatric clinical pharmacy program. He rose to the position of Pharmacy Director in 1990 until his retirement in 1996 whereupon he embarked on a unique opportunity to open the first pharmacy in the history of Yosemite National Park. In 1998, Dr. Ming became the Director of Ancillary Services at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles and in June 2000, he was hired as a Board of Pharmacy Inspector. Dr. Ming says the position of inspector is one of the most interesting positions he has held in that it allows him to see how pharmacy is practice throughout the state and not in one region or location for that matter. It also allows him to provide insight and assist in the drafting of new rules and regulations affecting the practice of pharmacy in California. In July, 2006, Dr. Ming retired as a supervising inspector but continues to work on a part-time basis for the Board. In August 2007, Dr. Ming was hired as the pharmacy law instructor at Western States University School of Pharmacy in Pomona. He regularly provides lectures on pharmacy law topics to local as well as state-wide pharmacy associations. Dr. Ming also acts as the Board of Pharmacy liaison on pharmacy compounding issues with the Food and Drug Administration and recently published an article in the California Pharmacist Association Journal on the status of current California laws affecting pharmacy compounding.