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For Daren Knoell, Pharm.D., becoming the College of Pharmacy’s new professor and chair of pharmacy practice was coming home.<\/p>\n

He grew up a farm kid in Fremont, Neb., the first in his family to go to college, to UNL. He pursued the health professions but realized medicine wasn’t a fit. A close friend told him about the possibilities in pharmacy. Dr. Knoell [pronounced NELL] was hooked.<\/p>\n

He bypassed his senior year in a fraternity to enroll at UNMC.<\/p>\n

He took classes in what is now the Williams Science Hall, when it had scaffolding on its sides. Clarence Ueda, Pharm.D., Ph.D., dean emeritus, was one of his instructors. <\/p>\n

Needing money, he attended a student meeting during which a young woman two classes ahead of him, Karen Ramsay, gave out tips on internships and jobs.<\/p>\n

He was hired at Ridgway Clinical Pharmacy. John Ridgway, now director of the office of experiential programs in the COP, hired a first-year pharmacy student each year. Karen also worked there, in the third-year spot.<\/p>\n

She and Daren have now been married for 28 years. Two kids.<\/p>\n

“Ridgway takes all the credit for it,” Dr. Knoell said with a laugh.<\/p>\n

In 1989 the Knoells headed to the University of California at San Francisco, a pharmacy powerhouse, for residency and fellowship training. “It really defined me,” Dr. Knoell said. It was there he confirmed his passion for research.<\/p>\n

They embarked on careers at The Ohio State University, establishing lives, raising kids.<\/p>\n

Their son is now in medical school at Toledo, in part because he’d heard good things about some guy named Dr. Gold. Their daughter is at Ohio State.<\/p>\n

Dr. Knoell had climbed the ladder, to chair of pharmacy practice and science. Karen Knoell, Pharm.D., had a great job. They loved it there.<\/p>\n

But Gary Yee, Pharm.D., invited Dr. Knoell back to UNMC to give a talk. He was taken back by the remarkable momentum that he observed.<\/p>\n

“It just made me feel good,” Dr. Knoell said. “I have always been proud to be an alum but when I returned home, I was walking with a spring in my step.”<\/p>\n

When UNMC officially approached him about coming back to Nebraska, it was a momentous decision. But the future sold him even more than the past.<\/p>\n

Karen, “the real pharmacist in the family,” now works for Nebraska Medicine, in her specialty area, ambulatory care. <\/p>\n

They are surrounded by family and old friends. “It’s surreal to be back,” Dr. Knoell said. “In the best of ways.”<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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