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College of Pharmacy dean assumes new leadership post |
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Jim Winkler |
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Jul 7, 2008
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It promises be a busy year for Dr. Johnnie L. Early, College of Pharmacy professor and dean.
He will finish a two-year stint as chair for the Council of Ohio Colleges of Pharmacy in July and is the new chair of the North Carolina-based National Pharmaceutical Association (NPhA) Foundation Board of Trustees.
Six universities — UT, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Pharmacy, Ohio Northern and Ohio State universities, and the universities of Findlay and of Cincinnati — make up the council that develops experiential training sites for pharmacy students, offers a licensure-examination review course, and works with Ohio pharmacy organizations to advance the profession.
The council has been working to elevate the importance of pharmacy practice in community pharmacies and in hospitals and studying trends in pharmacy education.
The foundation is the NPhA’s fundraising arm and supports its educational, research and practice-innovation activities and scholarships and assistance to the Student National Pharmaceutical Association. It also supports the NPhA in its efforts to represent the views of minority pharmacists and advance pharmaceutical-care standards.
As foundation chairman, Early said he plans to “focus on the membership of National Pharmacy Association as part of an enhanced bottom-up philanthropic strategy with emphasis on support for pharmacy students.” In July 2007, the NPhA Foundation awarded $20,000 in scholarships to pharmacy students.
Terrence Burroughs, foundation president and treasurer, said Early’s leadership will be positive, noting that Early is “very energetic” and a “valuable asset to the NPhA.”
The new appointment is the latest in a long line of leadership posts and honors for the Macon, Ga., native, who joined UT in 2000 after serving as dean of the South Carolina College of Pharmacy — formerly the Medical College of South Carolina College of Pharmacy — and of the pharmacy college at Florida A&M University.
He is past NPhA president, during which time he helped enhance scholarships for students, opened opportunities for residencies and graduate training, and launched an extensive continuing education program and a pharmacy school recruitment fair.
He has been named among the 50 most influential pharmacists in America by American Druggist and received the NPhA’s Chauncey I. Cooper Award, its highest honor, in 2002.
A 1973 graduate of Georgia’s Mercer University, Early earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University, which named him a distinguished alumnus in 1993 and later named him an “Old Master,” a Purdue alumni award given to “an exceptional person who has made significant contributions to his or her own field.”
He also has been honored by the Florida Pharmacy Association, the predominately African-American Phi Beta Sigma fraternity, and the Association of Black Health-Systems Pharmacists, which awarded him the Wendell T. Hill Award named after the first African-American president of the American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists.
He also has won several photography awards and parlayed his interest of photography into programs to help the South Carolina Pharmacy Association, Ohio Pharmacists Association and Ohio Society of Health Systems Pharmacists Association.
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