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Dr. Miriam A. Mobley Smith is a clinical assistant professor and coordinator of academic programs in the department of pharmacy practice, the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) College of Pharmacy. Dr. Mobley Smith serves on UIC's curriculum assessment committee and as a pharmacotherapist in ambulatory care. She is a faculty member in the allied health, nursing and human services department at South Suburban College in South Holland, Illinois.

Dr. Mobley Smith worked for more than 19 years in community, hospital and managed care settings, where she was responsible for projects such as continuity of asthma care, discharge medication programs, community pharmacy practice model development, indigent patient medication access, senior medication education programs and pharmacy technician continuing education. She has 10 years' experience as a regional poison control network specialist.

Dr. Mobley Smith received her B.S. in pharmacy from the University of Michigan and her Pharm.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She completed a pharmacy practice residency at Sinai Hospital of Detroit, where she was the first African American pharmacy resident.

She is a co-founder of the Association of Black Hospital Pharmacists, as well as an item writer and mentor for the Pharmacy Technician Certification Examination and a faculty advisor for the Student National Pharmaceutical Association.

In July 2004, Dr. Mobley Smith received the National Pharmaceutical Association's James N. Tyson Award. She has been recognized as a Van Dorn Scholar, by Women in Pharmacy Leadership, by Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, and is in Who's Who of Executives and Professionals.

Dr. Mobley Smith lives in South Holland, Illinois, and is married to Eric Smith, a nationally known genealogist. The couple have three sons.
 

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