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Victor A. Yanchick, Ph.D., who was the Associate Dean at the University of Texas at Austin, was offered the post by OUHSC Provost Clayton Rich. Dean Yanchick is in many ways a man of middle America, living and working in Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Texas, and Oklahoma. A native then spent two years as assistant chief pharmacist of a hospital in his hometown of Joliet. Yanchick returned to Iowa to earn his master's degree in 1966, then completed the Ph.D. degree in 1968 at Purdue University, where he managed the Student Health Center Pharmacy while a graduate student.
Dr. Yanchick taught clinical and hospital pharmacy at the University of Texas for three years before moving into administration as Acting Assistant Dean in 1971. Dr. Yanchick became Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs in 1973 and was promoted to Associate Dean in 1980. He was Associate Dean of pharmacy at the University of Texas until he came to Oklahoma in January of 1985.
During the nearly a decade with the OU College of Pharmacy, Dean Yanchick attempted to gather faculty with the teaching and research expertise to fulfill all missions of the College and provide the leadership for the pharmacy profession necessary of a great institution. The recruitment was successful, with the full-time faculty of the College more than doubling between 1983 and 1993.
During Dean Yanchick's tenure a major effort of the College came to fruition--a Doctor of Pharmacy program was instituted. Beginning in the 1970's, the College recommended offering the Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree in addition to the B.S. in Pharmacy degree. Envisioned as a post-baccalaureate professional degree for pharmacists, the Pharm.D. was to consist of two years of additional study focusing on clinical pharmacy and including intensive advanced practice rotations and clinical research. Although the formal proposal was approved by the College and the necessary campus administrative officers in the early 1980s, the State Regents for Higher Education denied the petition. After Dr. Yanchick assumed the position of Dean, however, the College submitted a new proposal for a combination post-baccalaureate and "track-in" Pharm.D. program which was approved by the University administration in 1988. This time, the program was approved by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education n December of 1989 and implemented the following July.
History sited from: Centennial, The University of Oklahoma College of Pharmacy; Author Leo Glenn Tate