Jay Gandy
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has named Jay Gandy, Ph.D., associate provost at its Northwest Regional Campus, effective Aug. 1.
Gandy has been interim dean of the UAMS Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health since December.
He joined UAMS in 1985, first in the department of Pharmacology and Toxicology in the College of Medicine, and for the past 18 years as a professor and chair of the Environmental and Occupational Health Department in the College of Public Health.
Gandy has also served as director of the Occupational and Environmental Health Master of Science Program (1996-2012) and since 2010 as director of the Regulatory Sciences Program.
From 1997-2010, he was a founding partner in CTEH LLC, a firm dedicated to addressing all aspects of response to emergencies, chemical exposures and human health. The company was incorporated under BioVentures, UAMS’ technology transfer office and business incubator, and now has 160 employees with offices in 11 cities.
Gandy completed his undergraduate training in entomology at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville in 1976. In 1982, he received a master’s degree in neurotoxicology from the University of California-Davis, and, in 1985, he earned a doctoral degree in toxicology from the University of California-Riverside.
Gandy has served on numerous EPA expert panels and review panels and is a past Science Advisory Board member to the FDA’s National Center for Toxicological Research.
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