Farrington

Elizabeth Farrington, Pharm.D., FCCP, FCCM, FPPAG, BCPS, BCNSP, was chosen as ACCP president-elect in the annual elections held last spring. Farrington is a clinical pharmacist at New Hanover Regional Medical Center (NHRMC) in Wilmington, North Carolina. Farrington received a B.S. degree in pharmacy from the University of North Carolina and a Pharm.D. degree from the University of Kentucky (UK), followed by a residency at UK and a pediatric fellowship. Her clinical practice is focused on pediatric critical care and general pediatrics. Farrington’s past professional association roles include service as a member of the Pediatric Pharmacy Association (PPA) board of directors and the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacology Section and SCCM Council; an officer of the SCCM Carolinas/Virginias chapter (board, secretary, president-elect, president, immediate past president); chair of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Pediatric SPG (2 years); accreditation reviewer for the PGY2 pediatric residency; and member of the Standardize 4 Safety oral medication committee. She was elected as a Fellow of ACCP in 1997, SCCM in 2008, and PPA in 2010. She is board certified in Pharmacotherapy and Nutrition Support. A member of ACCP since 1987, Farrington has served as chair of the Pediatrics PRN, a member of the Board of Regents (2010–2013), and founding president of the Indiana College of Clinical Pharmacy. She has also served as an officer of the Triangle College of Clinical Pharmacy (secretary, president-elect, president, immediate past president), author and reviewer for the ACCP PSAP series, author for the ACCP Pediatric and Critical Care Pharmacotherapy textbooks, instructor and reviewer for the ACCP Pharmacotherapy Preparatory Review and Recertification Course, and item writer for the ACCP Clinical Pharmacy Challenge student competition.

Blair

Olsen

Phillips

In other election results, Melissa M. Blair, Pharm.D., FCCP, FASHP, BCPS, was elected as treasurer, and Keith M. Olsen, Pharm.D., FCCP, FCCM, and Beth Bryles Phillips, Pharm.D., FCCP, FASHP, BCPS, BCACP, were selected as regents. Blair is the Senior Editor at Therapeutics Research Center, home of Pharmacist’s and Prescriber’s Letter, and a Clinical Pharmacist at NHRMC in Wilmington, North Carolina, where she has held positions as an internal medicine pharmacist, clinical manager, and residency education coordinator. Olsen is dean and professor of pharmacy at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) College of Pharmacy and a critical care specialist at UNMC in Omaha, Nebraska. Phillips is Rite Aid Professor and interim assistant department head for residency programs at the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy. She practices as a clinical pharmacy specialist at the Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center – Athens Community Based Outpatient Clinic.

Ernst

Parker

Erika J. Ernst, Pharm.D., FCCP, BCIDP, and Robert B. Parker, Pharm.D., FCCP, were each elected to 3-year terms as ACCP Foundation trustees. Ernst is an associate professor at the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy and a clinical pharmacy specialist at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. Parker is a professor of clinical pharmacy and translational science at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Pharmacy and a clinical pharmacy specialist in cardiology at the Memphis VA Medical Center.

Farrington will begin her term as president-elect after the 2021 ACCP Annual Meeting in October and 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 her candidate statement, she wrote:

ACCP has been an important part of my career and my first professional home…. We must continue to foster interprofessional collaboration to ensure that pharmacists are essential team members in all clinical settings. Health care reform and the COVID pandemic are quickly affecting the practice of pharmacy. It is critical that ACCP take a leading role in developing practice models in which pharmacists are active participants and essential team members in evolving health care settings. We need to look to the future and anticipate roles for pharmacy as health care continues to change…. The success of our profession demands that we acknowledge and embrace our changing role and be prepared for the future.

Each incoming member of the Board of Regents and Board of Trustees will be installed during the 2021 ACCP Annual Meeting for 3-year terms. Other candidates for office in the 2021 elections were Brandon Bookstaver, Dave Dixon, Candice Garwood, Michael Klepser, Edith Nutescu, and Benjamin Van Tassell.

Members of the 2020 Nominations Committee who recommended the 2021 slate of candidates to the Board of Regents were John Murphy (chair), Jo Ellen Rodgers (vice chair), Krystal Haase, Joanna Hudson, Mary Lee, Brad Phillips, and Gary Yee.