Professor is president-elect of national pharmacy association

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Virginia Commonwealth University School of Pharmacy professor Jean-Venable “Kelly” R. Goode has been named president-elect of the American Pharmacists Association. In March 2016, she will succeed Lawrence “LB” M. Brown of Chapman University School of Pharmacy as president of the national association.

The American Pharmacists Association, founded in 1852 as the American Pharmaceutical Association, represents more than 62,000 practicing pharmacists, pharmaceutical scientists, student pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and others who are interested in the profession of pharmacy. It is the oldest and largest pharmacy association in the country.

Goode is a member of the APhA board of trustees and a former president of APhA’s Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management. In addition to being on the VCU School of Pharmacy faculty since 1996, she has served for nine years as director of the school’s Community Pharmacy Practice Program and for 11 years as director of its Community Pharmacy Residency Program.

She has pharmacy practice experience in hospital, long-term care and ambulatory settings, and her primary focus is on developing and implementing innovative patient care services in community practice.

Goode has received numerous awards and recognition, including the Virginia Pharmacists Association’s 2014 Ed D. Spearbeck Virginia Pharmacist Service Award, APhA’s Daniel B. Smith Practice Excellence Award in 2011, the inaugural National Association of Chain Drug Stores Foundation Community Pharmacy Faculty Award in 2009, the APhA Community Pharmacy Residency Excellence in Precepting Award in 2008, the VCU Distinguished Service Award in 2005, the APhA-APPM Distinguished Achievement Award in Clinical/Pharmacotherapeutic Practice in 2004, the VCU School of Pharmacy Teaching Excellence Award in 2003 and the Virginia Society of Health-System Pharmacists Practice Innovation Award in 1997.

Goode is an alumna of the VCU School of Pharmacy, having received her B.S. in 1989 and her Pharm.D. in 1994. She also earned a bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics from Virginia Tech in 1986.

Previous VCU School of Pharmacy APhA presidents have included Daniel A. Herbert,MCV class of 1966, whose 2004-05 term as president ended prematurely when he died in 2005. Also, J. Curtis Nottingham,MCV class of 1935 (and recipient of an honorary doctorate in pharmaceutical sciences in 1966), served as 1964-65 APhA president.

Click to view a video of APhA President-elect Goode answering this question: “By the end of your term, what unique contributions do you hope you have made as an office or leader of the association?”

 

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