Marilyn Odom
Professor
College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences
Biography
Dr. Marilyn Thompson Odom joined the faculty of Belmont in January 2009 as Associate Professor in the College of Pharmacy and was promoted to the rank of Professor and awarded tenure in 2014. From 2016-2021, she served as the Chair of Pharmaceutical, Social, and Administrative Sciences in the College of Pharmacy. She served as Chair of the Department of Integrated Medical Education in the Frist College of Medicine from 2021-2023. She currently holds the position of professor in the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.
Dr. Odom graduated from the University of South Alabama with a B.S. in Respiratory Therapy and from the Whiddon College of Medicine with a Ph.D. in Basic Medical Sciences with a specialization in Pharmacology. She completed her postdoctoral training at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. From 1999-2008, Dr. Odom served as a faculty member at Meharry Medical College, where she trained three students to earn their Ph.D.
Dr. Odom’s teaching responsibilities have included First Year Seminar and Neuroscience within the Occupational Therapy curriculum. Within the Pharmacy curriculum, she has taught in Anatomy & Physiology, Pharmacodynamics, Endocrinology, and Oncology courses. Dr. Odom’s research interest focuses on signaling mechanisms in triple negative breast cancer. She offers research opportunities to undergraduate students through the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURFS) program and in the Honors program and to Pharmacy students either as a research elective or as an Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE).