Election 2010 Representative to Administrative Board, Council of Deans Natalie D. Eddington School of Pharmacy University of Maryland Natalie D. Eddington, Ph.D., is professor and dean of the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. She was formerly the chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Dr. Eddington graduated with a B.S. in pharmacy from Howard University and received her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. After working as assistant director of clinical drug development at Pfizer Inc., she joined the faculty. She was appointed director of the School of Pharmacy’s Pharmacokinetics/Biopharmaceutics Laboratory in 1999. Since becoming dean, the school has achieved a number of milestones including: (1) established its first distance education program at the Universities at Shady Grove, (2) constructed a new 7-story, 112,000 square foot education and research building, (3) constructed an Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) suite to support the implementation of formative and summative OSCEs across P1–P4, (4) expanded the Maryland P3 Program, a chronic disease management program servicing more than 400 patients in sites across Maryland and Virginia, and (5) established the Center of Drug Safety to improve public health through pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacovigilance research. Dr. Eddington has been active in AACP and has served as a member of the COD Task Force on Diversity and more recently as the chair of the AACP Diversity Task Force. Her honors and awards include one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women in 2010 by the Daily Record newspaper, elected in 2010 to the position of secretary of the Board of Directors of the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Technology and Education and member of Leadership Maryland Class of 2009.
Nancy Fjortoft Chicago College of Pharmacy Midwestern University Nancy Fjortoft, Ph.D., is dean and professor at Midwestern University’s Chicago College of Pharmacy. Prior to coming to Midwestern, she was assistant dean for academic affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy. She received her Ph.D. in public policy with a focus on higher education from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research interests include sociology of the workplace, pharmacists caring abilities and the impact of continuing education on changing practice. She has received a number of grants related to educational assessment, leadership and continuing education. She has published in both pharmacy and educational research journals and has presented at state, national and international meetings. She was recently awarded the Wiederholt Prize by the American Pharmacists Association for the best paper published in Journal of the American Pharmacists Association in the economic, social and administrative sciences. She has also been awarded the AACP Rufus A. Lyman Award, which is given in recognition of the most outstanding publication in the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education. Dr. Fjortoft has been an active member of AACP for the past 15 years. She has served on the editorial board of the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, chair of the Continuing Professional Education Section, member of the AACP Advocacy Committee, chair of the Women’s SIG Resource Clearing House Committee, member of the COD nominations committee, member of various CPE Section committees, member of the AACP Academic Affairs Committee and member and chair of the PCAT Advisory Committee. She lives in Oak Park, Ill. with her husband and teenage daughter.
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