Marcia Buck
Brian Erstad
Tracy Hagemann
Brian Hemstreet
Rex Force
Grace Kuo
Marcia Buck, Pharm.D., FCCP, FPPAG, was chosen ACCP President-Elect in annual elections held this past spring. Dr. Buck is a clinical pharmacy coordinator for pediatrics in the Department of Pharmacy and associate professor of pediatrics in the School of Medicine at the University of Virginia Health System. She is also a clinical associate professor at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Pharmacy. Dr. Buck has been a member of ACCP since 1987. Her service to ACCP includes membership on the Board of Regents (2008–2011); ACCP representative on the multi-organizational Committee for Development of the Pediatric Petition to the Board of Pharmacy Specialties (2011–2013); ACCP appointee to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Task Force on Collaborative Practice; author and reviewer for the Pharmacotherapy Self-Assessment Program (PSAP); coauthor of ACCP’s Pediatric Medication Education Text; member of the Pharmacotherapy editorial board; and member or chair of several ACCP committees. She has presented often at ACCP meetings and symposia. Dr. Buck was recognized as an ACCP Fellow in 1998. In other election results, Brian Erstad, Pharm.D., MCCM, FCCP, FASHP, BCPS, was elected treasurer, and Tracy Hagemann, Pharm.D., FCCP, FPPAG, and Brian Hemstreet, Pharm.D., FCCP, BCPS, were selected as regents. They will be installed at the 2015 ACCP Global Conference on Clinical Pharmacy in San Francisco, California, for 3-year terms. Dr. Erstad is currently a tenured professor and head of the Department of Pharmacy Practice & Science at the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy; Dr. Hagemann is a professor and associate dean-Nashville at the University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy; and Dr. Hemstreet is an assistant dean for student affairs and associate professor at Regis University School of Pharmacy in Denver, Colorado.
Rex Force, Pharm.D., FCCP, BCPS, and Grace Kuo, Pharm.D., Ph.D., MPH, FCCP, were each elected to 3-year terms as Research Institute trustees. Dr. Force is an associate dean for clinical research in the Division of Health Sciences at Idaho State University. He also holds appointments as a professor of pharmacy practice and family medicine and director of research in the Department of Family Medicine. Dr. Kuo is a professor of clinical pharmacy, family medicine, and public health and associate dean for academic clinical affairs at the University of California San Diego Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Dr. Buck will be installed as president-elect at the 2015 ACCP Global Conference on Clinical Pharmacy, and she will assume the presidency the following year. As president, she will serve as chair of the Board of Regents and guide College programs and activities. In an interview with the ACCP Report, Dr. Buck commented:
It will be an honor to serve ACCP as a presidential officer. I would like to thank the membership for this opportunity. I look forward to working with you, my fellow members of the Board of Regents, and our outstanding ACCP staff to achieve the goals contained in our strategic plan and set new ones. There are many opportunities for us to pursue. I’m proud to be a part of an organization whose members include internationally recognized leaders in clinical pharmacy, research, and interprofessional education as well as our profession’s future leaders who join us as students, residents, and new practitioners. I remember very well how exciting it was to attend my first ACCP meeting as a new pediatric pharmacy resident. I’m just as excited to meet our new members at the Global Conference in Clinical Pharmacy who are experiencing their first meeting. Thank you again for allowing me to serve this organization and share in its mission of advancing our profession.
Other candidates for office in the 2015 elections were John Cleary, Paul Gubbins, Dawn Havrda, Robert MacLaren, Richard Parrish II, and Cynthia Sanoski.