Marshall Cates, PharmD, BCPP, FASHP, FCCP, FAAPP
Professor Emeritus
Samford University McWhorter School of Pharmacy
Birmingham, AL

Dr. Cates received a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Rhodes College and a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy. He then completed a psychiatric pharmacy residency program at the University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy. His long career as an academic pharmacist at the Samford University McWhorter School of Pharmacy in Birmingham, AL (1995-2024) was bookended by full-time clinical pharmacist positions at the Salt Lake City VA Medical Center (1992-1995) and Children’s of Alabama in Birmingham, AL (2025-2026). During his career, he practiced in adult inpatient and outpatient psychiatry, geriatric inpatient psychiatry, and pediatric inpatient psychiatry. He was among the inaugural group of pharmacists to become board certified in psychiatric pharmacy in 1996. He founded and directed an accredited residency program in psychiatric pharmacy at the Tuscaloosa VA Medical Center. He received five Teacher of the Year awards from students at the McWhorter School of Pharmacy, and he received an Innovations in Teaching Award from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. He has numerous publications, posters, and grants, and he became the first recipient of Samford University’s Outstanding Scholarship Award in 2018 and the McWhorter School of Pharmacy’s Lifetime Achievement Scholar Award in 2019. Lastly, he is a Past President of both the Alabama Society of Health-System Pharmacists and the American Association of Psychiatric Pharmacists.