2024 Speaker: Richard Harris, M.D., Pharm.D., MBA
Chief Strategy Officer, Nimbus Healthcare
Chief Medical Officer, Script Health
12:15-1 p.m. Monday, Oct. 21
Room 3048/3050, Health 2

Sponsored by The Rho Chi Society UH Beta Omicron Chapter and UH College of Pharmacy, the Robert L. Boblitt Lecture Series is held in the fall of each academic year. During the lecture, UH Rho Chi members present the chapter’s Teaching Excellence Award to the outstanding faculty members from the college’s three academic departments.

About Dr. Richard Harris

Dr. Richard Harris is a board-certified internal medicine physician and pharmacist. Dr. Harris attended the University of Texas at Austin for pharmacy school and then pursued medical education at the McGovern School of Medicine in Houston. As a lifelong learner, Dr. Harris continues to look for ways to grow both personally and professionally, which lead him to pursue and obtain an MBA at the University of Houston.

Dr. Harris's client-centric view focuses on building relationships and trust through a comprehensive lifestyle medicine system. He is the chief strategy officer for Nimbus Healthcare and the chief medical officer for Script Health. Dr. Harris has been a subject matter expert and guest speaker at several national conferences and has served on advisory boards with some of the leading minds in medicine and holistic wellness. He is an avid reader, weight lifter, and video game enthusiast in his spare time. Dr. Harris enjoys sports, traveling, philanthropy, church, and keto donuts.

About Robert L. Boblitt

Robert L. "Bob" Boblitt, Ph.D., joined the college’s faculty in 1953, shortly after the college’s founding. He served as assistant and associate dean from 1971 unti his retirement in 1987.

After receiving a baccalaureate in pharmacy from Ohio Northern University in 1948, Dr. Boblitt completed his Ph.D. in medicinal chemistry from the University of Minnesota in 1953. His honors included membership in Phi Eta Sigma, Rho Chi, Sigma Xi and the Samuel Melendy Fellowship. He also was the recipient of the University of Houston Teaching Excellence Award in 1972.

Boblitt was an extraordinary teacher, a practicing pharmacist and a friend for students. Those who sat in his classroom during the 33 years he taught will always remember how fast he could draw chemical structures and the way in which he skillfully drew structures with one and erased them with the other. He could never have too much information or structures on the chalkboard.

About Rho Chi Society

The Rho Chi Society, pharmacy’s academic honor society established in 1922, encourages and recognizes excellence in intellectual achievement and fosters fellowship among its members. Further, the Society encourages high standards of conduct and character, and advocates critical inquiry in all aspects of pharmacy. Membership is by invitation and based on high academic achievement in the professional curriculum. The UH Beta Omicron chapter of Rho Chi was founded in 1958.

Past Lecturers

Sarah Lake Wallace, 2023
Michael G. Liebl, 2022
Beth Willis, 2021
Sandra N. & Nicholas B. Davis, 2020
Joyce A. Tipton, 2019
Alex C. Varkey, 2018
Kenneth R. Baker, 2017
Christopher Alvarado, 2016
Thomas L. Lemke, 2015
Cmdr. Chandima Deegala, 2015 (rescheduled from Fall 2014)
Stuart T. Haines, 2013
Lourdes M. Cuéllar, 2012
Diane Ginsburg, 2011
Judith Jacobi, 2010
John D. Grabenstein, 2009
Cynthia L. Raehl, 2008
Cynthia Brennan, 2007
Bruce Berger, 2006
Traci Metting, 2005
Mustafa Lokhandwala, 2004
Lucinda Maine, 2003
Karen Rascati, 2002
Victoria Roche, 2001