Stephan Schmidt, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the department of pharmaceutics, has been appointed as the vice chair of the Systems Pharmacology Community at the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, or ASCPT. In his role, he will lead efforts to develop a five-year strategic plan for how to better implement systems pharmacology approaches in drug development and regulatory decision making. He will also build relationships between ASCPT and other national and international organizations. Schmidt is a 2008 graduate of the University of Florida and works for the Center for Pharmacometics and Systems Pharmacology at the College of Pharmacy’s Lake Nona campus.