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Election 2010
Chair-elect, Social and Administrative Sciences Betty A. Chewning School of Pharmacy University of Wisconsin-Madison Betty A. Chewning, Ph.D., is professor of social and administrative sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) School of Pharmacy and adjunct professor of population health at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. In addition, she is director of the Sonderegger Research Center for health services research in pharmacy where she works on patient-provider communication and public health issues. Her work in this area has been funded by AHRQ, NIA, PHS and the Kellogg Foundation. She teaches the School of Pharmacy capstone pharmacy communication course with eight lab sections. In addition to videotaped standardized patient encounters, students collaborate with community pharmacies to raise patient expectations of pharmacists through new planned programs at their sites. She has been active with AACP having served as chair and member of the Young Investigator Award Committee, member of the Abstract Review Committee, member of the Curriculum Committee for Social Administrative Sciences and AACP representative on national expert panels. Dr. Chewning serves on the editorial boards of International Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy. She received her Ph.D. in educational psychology and postdoctoral training in industrial engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a B.S. from the University of Chicago. She is a Fellow in the American Pharmacists Association.
Linda Gore Martin College of Pharmacy University of Wyoming Linda Gore Martin, Pharm.D., MBA, BCPS, has a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Creighton University and an MBA and B.S.Pharm. from the University of Wyoming. Her early career was as the coordinator of the University of Wyoming Drug Information Center. During this time, she taught very basic drug information concepts and an elective rotation in drug information. As part of the position, she served (and still does) as consultant to the State of Wyoming Drug Utilization Review Program. Her MBA and completion of the ASHP Competitive Edge program provided the background for the pharmacoeconomics and outcomes. During those years, she was also assigned the introduction to pharmacy course, which created an interest in the social and behavioral sciences. In 2000, Dr. Martin was hired as a tenure-track social and administrative sciences assistant professor; she was promoted with tenure in 2006. Her primary teaching responsibilities have been drug information, drug literature evaluation, research design, statistics and pharmacoeconomics. Until 2008, Dr. Martin co-taught the drug information rotations. She also co-teaches the social and behavioral course. She has also taught ethics, health policy, part of public health, part of pharmacy law and pharmacy administration. She has served as the associate dean of operations and academic affairs since 2007 (part-time position), using her social and administrative pharmacy skills daily. A significant contribution is PSAP VI Book 8: Health Promotion and Wellness (2008), which she served as editorial liaison. She has worked with the AACP Social and Administrative Sciences Section since joining AACP. The area in which she has participated the most is curriculum. She is in her second year as chair of the SAdS curriculum committee.
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