OXFORD, Miss. – Distinguished pharmacy practitioner Marie A.
Chisholm-Burns plans to discuss the important role pharmacists play in
overall patient care for the 2009 Coy W. Waller Distinguished Lecture at
the University of Mississippi.
Chisholm-Burns speaks at 11 a.m. Oct. 16 at the Gertrude C. Ford Center
for the Performing Arts. Her lecture, titled “Research in Practice:
Pharmacists’ Value in Providing Patient Care,” is sponsored by the
UM School of Pharmacy and is free and open to the public.
She is professor and head of the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science at
the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy. Her research interests
include implementation and evaluation of programs that affect health care
outcomes, and the improvement of health care outcomes through increasing
patients’ medication adherence.
“Dr. Chisholm-Burns is a distinguished pharmacy educator and clinical
researcher who has had remarkable impact on pharmacy education and on the
care of transplant patients,” said Barbara G. Wells, UM pharmacy
dean. “It is our honor to host her as the 2009 Coy W. Waller
Lecturer, and I look very much forward to her presentation, which will
offer unique insights for our students and faculty.”
Chisolm-Burns is the recipient of the American Association of Colleges of
Pharmacy’s 2005 Robert K. Chalmers Distinguished Pharmacy Educator Award
and the 2006 American Pharmacists Association’s Daniel B. Smith Practice
Excellence Award. She won the AACP Rufus A. Lyman Award for most
outstanding publication in American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education
in 1996 and again in 2007. She also was inducted into the National
Academies of Practice in 2006 for her contributions to the advancement of
professional pharmacy practice.
She is the author or editor of textbooks, has contributed many book chapters and has
authored numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals. Chisholm-Burns also
has received more than $5 million in external funding as principal
investigator. She is a fellow of the American Society of Health-System
Pharmacists and the American College of Clinical Pharmacy.
The Coy W. Waller Distinguished Lecture series was established in 2004 to recognize
Waller’s contributions to his discipline and to the pharmacy school. Each
year the lecture is hosted by a department within the school, and
lecturers are selected for their contributions to the host department’s
discipline. The 2009 lecture is hosted by the Department of Pharmacy
Practice.
For more information on the UM School of Pharmacy, go to
http://www.pharmacy.olemiss.