Alamdar Hussain, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Education
Ph.D., Pharmaceutics, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Amarillo, TX
B.S. in Pharmacy, Kakatiya University, Warangal, India
Bio
Dr. Hussain received his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics from the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Amarillo, TX, and his B.S. in Pharmacy from Kakatiya University in India. Prior to joining AUHS, Dr. Hussain worked as Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Universities of Louisiana and Oklahoma. He has taught both professional pharmacy and graduate students various courses including but not limited to Pharmaceutics, Compounding Pharmacy, Pharmacokinetics, Physical Pharmacy, Advanced Drug Delivery and Targeting, Pharmaceutical Technology, Medical Microbiology, and Biotechnology. He has also mentored several M.S. and Ph.D. students throughout his career.
Dr. Hussain’s research interest primarily focuses in the field of inhalation protein and peptide drug delivery. He is currently investigating ways to improve absorption of drugs by non-invasive routes in laboratory animals and understand mechanisms of macromolecular drug transport in vitro. Dr. Hussain is also passionate about student learning and implements novel methods of teaching and learning in classroom and laboratory. He is actively pursuing the arena of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning after joining AUHS in 2020.
With regard to his leadership experience, Dr. Hussain is a former Chair of the Department of General Education at AUHS. Currently, he serves as the Assistant Dean for Student Affairs and Admission for the School of Pharmacy.
Selected Publications (Since 2014)
E. Nguyen, S. Kim, M. Islam, Y. Chang, J. Aoyagi, A. Hussain (2022). An entrepreneurial activity implementation and assessment among pharmacy students amid the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Pharmacy Education, 22(1):16-22.
A. Hussain, H. Chau, H. Bang, L. Meyer, M. Islam (2021). Performance of pharmacy students in a communications course delivered online during the COVID-19 pandemic. American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 85(10): Article 8617.
A. Hussain (2021). Implementation of online assignment submission with instant feedback in a pharmacy course. Pharmacy Education, 21(1):45-50.
D. Raghuvanshi, G. Nkepang, A. Hussain, H. Yari, V. Awasthi (2017). Stability studies on an anticancer drug 4-(3.5-bis (2-chlorobenzylidene)-4-oxo-piperidine)-4-oxo-2-butenoic acid (Clefma) using a stability indicating HPLC method. Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis, 7(1):1-9.
G. Rao, A. Hedrick, V. Yadav, J. Xie, A. Hussain, V. Awasthi (2015). The brain metabolic activity after resuscitation with liposome-encapsulated hemoglobin in a rat model of hypovolemic shock. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow Metabolism, 35(9):1528-36.
K. Amancha, A. Hussain (2015). Effect of protease inhibitors on pulmonary bioavailability of therapeutic proteins and peptides in the rat. European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 20(68):1-10.
V. Yadav, A. Hussain, J Xie, S. Kosanke, V. Awasthi (2015). The salutary effects of diphenyldifluoroketone EF24 in liver of a rat hemorrhagic shock model. Scandinavian Journal of Trauma Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 23:8.
V. Yadav, A. Hussain, K. Sahoo, V. Awasthi (2014). Remediation of hemorrhagic shock-induced intestinal barrier dysfunction by treatment with diphenyldihaloketones, EF24 and Clefma. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 351(2):413-422.
K. Amancha, S. Balkundi, Y. Lvov, A. Hussain (2014). Pulmonary sustained release of insulin from microparticles composed of polyelectrolyte layer-by-layer assembly. International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 466(1-2)96-108.
