The Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education has elected new members of its executive committee and board of directors.
Lori Duke, Anthony Provenzano and Michael Moné join the ACPE executive committee for the 2019–2020 term of office as president, vice president and secretary/treasurer, respectively, after the organization’s recent directors meeting.
Duke, who was appointed to the board by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, is the assistant dean in the division of experience programs at the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy. She has held numerous AACP leadership positions and previously served as vice president and board liaison to the International Commission and the Continuing Pharmacy Education Commission.
Provenzano, who was appointed to the board by the American Pharmacists Association, is the vice president of pharmacy compliance and government affairs at Albertsons. He has served on numerous pharmacy association advisory panels and currently serves on the National Association of Chain Drug Stores Policy Council, as well as two colleges of pharmacy dean’s advisory boards. He previously has been ACPE secretary/treasurer and board liaison to the CPE Commission and the Pharmacy Technician Accreditation Commission.
Moné, who was appointed by the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, is vice president of anti-diversion and supply chain integrity and senior regulatory counsel at Cardinal Health. He previously has served on the ACPE executive committee in several capacities, including president and board liaison to the PTAC.
ACPE thanked John Clay Kirtley for his commitment to the ACPE executive committee over the past two years, having served in the capacities of president, vice president and secretary/treasurer.
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ACPE board members Gregory Gruener andAmy Seybert[/caption]
The organization also appointed two members to the ACPE board of directors following the January ACPE board of directors meeting:
- Gregory Gruener, who is the vice dean for education at Loyola’s Stritch School of Medicine in Maywood, Ill. He is a neurology professor at Loyola, as well as a Leischner and adjunct professor at the Stritch School of Medicine. Additionally, Gruener serves as an ambassador member of the Institute for Transformative Interprofessional Education at Loyola University Chicago. The American Council on Education appointed Gruener to serve on the board through June 2022; and
- Amy Seybert, who is the associate professor and the chair of the department of pharmacy and therapeutics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy. She also is the pharmacy residency administrator at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the University of Pittsburgh, where she oversees clinical pharmacy faculty services at UPMC’s flagship hospital and its affiliates. Seybert designed a cardiovascular specialty residency and advanced innovative learning technologies through human patient simulation. APhA appointed Seybert to serve on the board through June 2022.