Office of the President
                                             July 12, 1982



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Members, Executive Committee, Board of Trustees:

                       PERSONNEL APPOINTMENT

Recommendation: that the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees
formally approve the nomination of Dr. Louis Diamond, a pharmacologist
at the University of Kentucky, to the medication panel established by
House Bill 143.

Background: Section 5 of House Bill 143 directs the University of
Kentucky to appoint a pharmacologist to the Kentucky Equine Drug Research
Council, a medication panel established during the last legislative ses-
sion. The panel is to review drug research and testing research programs
and to advise the Racing Commission on drug regulatory policy. Dr. Louis
Diamond is being recommended for this post. He is a respected senior mem-
ber of the faculty whose major academic appointment is in the College of
Pharmacy but who also holds an appointment as Professor of Pharmacology
in the College of Medicine.



Action taken:



Approved xx



Disapproved



Date:   July 12



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