Shepherd, Marvin D., Ph.D.
Division Head,
Clifford L. Klinck, Jr.
Centennial Professor
PHR 3.209
512-471-5607
marvshepherd@mail.utexas.edu

Marv Shepherd earned his B.S. in biology (1969) from Michigan Technological University, a B.S. in pharmacy from Ferris State University (1975), M.S. from the University of Rhode Island (1978) and Ph.D. from Purdue University (1980). In 1969, he received a commission in the U.S. Army and was a Special Forces (Green Beret) officer.

He is the director of the Center for Pharmacoeconomic Studies and chairman of the Pharmacy Administration Division, College of Pharmacy University of Texas at Austin. The research program has 10 faculty members and more than 30 full-time M.S. and Ph.D. students. Dr. Shepherd has an active research program and has more than 100 publications and has written six book chapters. He is currently the chairman of the Board of Directors for the Partnership for Safe Medicines (Safemedicines.org) a group composed of more than 40 organizations dedicated to protecting the public from counterfeit, diverted and substandard medications.

Since 1994, he has studied drug importation, especially Mexican drugs entering the U.S. His research and expertise on drug importation and drug counterfeiting has been featured on CNN News, NPR Radio: First Edition, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, Money Magazine, Time Magazine, Prevention Magazine, US News and World Report, New York Times, USAToday, Washington Post, plus many other national newspapers, magazines and television and radio news broadcasts. He has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee on the drug importation, prescription drug diversion and counterfeit drugs in 2001 and again in 2002. He testified in 2004 before the Health and Human Services Task Force on Drug Importation and the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Investigations. He has been a featured speaker at many national meetings on drug importation, drug diversion and counterfeit medications. It was his research that documented the extent Rohypnol (the date rape drug) was entering the U.S. from Mexico which lead to the U.S. banning of the product in 1997. This year he was awarded the Silver Ink Well Award from the International Association of Business Communicators, Washington DC for his Editorial Opinion article published in USA TODAY : "What if Canada Says 'No' to Drug Imports."

He is currently the chairman of the Board of Directors, Partnership for Safe Medicines which is an organization dedicated to providing information and protecting the public against substandard, counterfeit medications. In 1991, he was the president of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Research and Science of the American Pharmaceutical Association. He is a fellow of the APhA Academy of Pharmaceutical Research and Science. He currently is the chairman of the Editorial Advisory Board for the Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy. He is a member of the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research, Academy of Health Services Researchers, American Pharmacist Association, the Texas Pharmacists Association and Texas Society of Health-System Pharmacists.

Awards and Appointments

Awarded the Spirit of Volunteerism Award from the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy, 2004.

Appointed to the Board of Directors, Partnership for Safe Medicines (safemedicines.com), 2004.

Elected President and Chairman, Board of Directors, Partnership for Safe Medicines August, 2005.

Editorial was awarded the Silver Ink Well Award from the International Association of Business Communicators, Washington DC Chapter for the  Editorial Opinion article published in USATODAY , December 29, 2004, "What if Canada Says "No" to Drug Imports," October, 18, 2005. 

Awarded the Best Research Paper Published in the Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy, 2005. Authors and title of the paper: Song Hee Hong, Marv Shepherd, David Scoones and Thomas Wan, Product-line Extensions and Pricing Strategies of Brand Name Drugs Facing Patent Expiration, JMCP, Vol. 11, No. 9, 2005.

Awarded the Education Achievement Award from the Texas Pharmacy Association, July 2006.

Awarded the American Society of Health-System Pharmacist "Award of Excellence" at the Mid-Year Clinical Meeting, December 2006.

Co-author (Johnsrud, Lawson and Shepherd) of the 2007 Best Research Paper of the Year Award from the Journal Managed Care Pharmacy  "Comparison of Mail-Order with Community Pharmacy in Plan Sponsor Cost and Member Cost in Two Large Pharmacy Benefit Plans."