Continuing Maryville College’s Community Conversations Series on globalization, Dr. Dick Gourley, dean of the University of Tennessee’s College of Pharmacy, will present “Globalization of Health Care: It’s a Small World” at 7 p.m., April 4 in the Music Hall of the College’s Fine Arts Center.
Gourley, who received his bachelor of science degree in 1969 and his doctorate of pharmacy in 1970 from the University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy in Memphis, began his teaching career at Mercer University in Atlanta as assistant professor of clinical pharmacy. He was at the University of Nebraska Medical Center from 1972 until 1984 as founding chair of the department of clinical pharmacy. In 1980, he completed the certificate program in Health Systems Management at Harvard University Schools of Public Health, Business, and Medicine. In December 1984, he moved to Mercer University as dean of the College of Pharmacy. He completed the certificate program in higher education administration at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in July 2001.
At UT since 1989, his responsibilities today include overseeing all academic, research and service programs of the College; teaching at the professional- and graduate-program level; research; and university committee service. He is also a faculty member for the University Institute for Leadership Effectiveness.
The university’s College of Pharmacy is ranked as one of the top 20 in the country by U.S. News and World Report.
Gourley has published more than 55 manuscripts, served as editor of 26 proceedings, co-edited five textbooks and six workbooks and presented more than 225 lectures at local, sate, national and international meetings. He is the co-editor of Textbook of Therapeutics: Drugs and Disease Management (seventh edition) and editor-in-chief of the American Pharmaceutical Association’s Comprehensive Review of Pharmacy (now in its third edition). He serves on the board of directors of Accredo Health, Inc.
Conversations continue with documentary
Director Dr. David Redmon will screen his acclaimed documentary “Mardi Gras: Made in China” and answer questions in the College’s Lawson Auditorium on April 12. Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, the documentary follows the stories of four teenage women workers in the largest Mardi Gras bead factory in the world, contrasting their economic and social realities in China with those of the U.S. festival-goers who wear the beads.
“Mardi Gras: Made in China” will be followed up days later with a related talk, “Beyond Sweatshops: Money, Morality and the Global Marketplace,” led by Dr. Denis Arnold, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Arnold will speak on April 18 in the Music Hall of the Fine Arts Center.
All events begin at 7 p.m. and are free of charge and open to the public. For more information, contact Conte at 865.981.8129 or tom.conte@maryvillecollege.edu.

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