The School of Pharmacy will host the 2026 Francis S. Balassone Memorial Lecture on Sept. 30 at 1 p.m. in Pharmacy Hall Room N103. The featured speaker is Wanda T. Maldonado-Davila, BSP ’82, PharmD ’86, a School of Pharmacy double alumnus and dean of the University of Puerto Rico School of Pharmacy. A reception will follow. Registration is requested.
The Francis S. Balassone Memorial Lecture was established in 1976 by the Maryland Pharmacists Association and the school’s Alumni Association in memory of Francis Balassone, an alumnus of the Class of 1940, and a faculty member at the school. Balassone was executive secretary of the Maryland Board of Pharmacy and was instrumental in establishing the first school-based pharmacy student externship program in the nation.