1930: The Parker Act allows for the admission of pharmacists to the Commissioned Corps. LT Edgar B. Scott, who joined the Public Health Service (PHS) as a civilian employee in 1896, and LT Edwin M. Holt, who joined in 1900, become the first two pharmacists to be commissioned as officers in the corps. Holt is also the first PHS Commissioned Corps pharmacist to be detailed to the Office of Indian Affairs in the U.S. Department of the Interior. Image or Reference

Another eight pharmacists are commissioned in September 1930: • LT William L. Stearns Marine Hospital in New York, NY (Started with PHS on March 1, 1892) • LT Frank L. Gibson Marine Hospital in San Francisco, CA (Started with PHS on June 10, 1898) • LT Newton C. Comfort Immigration Station in Manila, P.I. (Started with PHS on February 4, 1899) • LT Carl Stier Marine Hospital Key West, FL (Started with PHS on April 23, 1902) • LT Clarence H. Bierman Marine Hospital in Cleveland, OH (Started with PHS on September 8, 1903) • LT Walter H. Keen Marine Hospital in Norfolk, VA (Started with PHS on August 4, 1906) • LT Raymond D. Kinsey Supply Depot in Perry Point, MD (Started with PHS on August 31, 1914) • LT Thomas C. Armstrong Marine Hospital in Memphis, TN (Started with PHS on January 22, 1916)

1930: On May 26, the Ransdell Act redesignates the Hygienic Laboratory as the National Institute of Health, authorizing $750,000 for construction of two buildings for the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland. Reference

1932: The establishment of the American Council on Pharmaceutical Education (ACPE) to “set standards for the education of pharmacists to prepare them for the delivery of pharmacist-provided patient care.” Reference

1938: The U.S. Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938, directs the Food and Drug Administration to require new drugs to demonstrate safety before they can be marketed. Reference