Suzanne Clark, RPh, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Pharmacology at California Northstate University College of Pharmacy and Vice-Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences. She received her B.S. from the University of Iowa, her B.S. in Pharmacy from the University of Wyoming, and her Ph.D. in Pharmacology from Duke University. Her graduate research focused on in vitro models of epilepsy, anticonvulsant drug development, and glutamatergic/GABAergic processes. Her post-doctoral research at the Durham Veterans Administration Medical Center/Duke University Medical Center focused on epilepsy and military occupational exposures to neurotoxins and their underlying neurotoxic mechanisms. After completing additional postdoctoral work on AMPA receptors and epilepsy at Colorado State University, she moved to the University of Wyoming School of Pharmacy, where she taught Pathophysiology to PharmD and Nursing students for nine years. She moved to the CNU College of Pharmacy in 2014, where she teaches pharmacology and pathophysiology of the nervous system. She also worked as a hospital and community pharmacist in Colorado and as a specialist at the Duke Poison Control Center. Her interests include neuropharmacology, occupational and environmental public health, pharmacy education, and team-based learning. She was a founding member of the new Pharmacy Special Primary Interest Group in the American Public Health Association. She has included PharmD and Nursing students in many aspects her teaching, research, and service, and has facilitated opportunities for students to receive institutional, regional and national awards, as well as helping them pursue post-graduate education, academic positions, and public health opportunities.

Neuropharmacology, occupational and environmental public health, pharmacy education