TTUHSC pharmacy prof named president-elect of American Affiliation of Schools of Pharmacy
Dr. Craig Cox was named president-elect of the American Affiliation of Colleges of Pharmacy. The AACP is the nationwide group representing pharmacy schooling and studying in the USA.
Cox is a professor of pharmacy train and vice chair for experiential programs on the Texas Tech School Effectively being Sciences Centre (TTUHSC) Jerry H. Hodge College of Pharmacy. He additionally serves as an ex officio member of the Curricular Affairs Committee and persevering with schooling and studying, in addition to chair of the Preceptor Advisory Council.
“Dr. Cox has substantial encounter on the close by, situation, nationwide and international ranges representing our college as very effectively because the pharmacy career, and he’ll ship useful views as president of the AACP,” acknowledged Quentin Smith, Pharm.D., dean of the TTUHSC Jerry H. Hodge College of Pharmacy. “This can be a outstanding honor for him and for our faculty.”
In accordance to the AACP, pharmacy is the third premier well being job – quickly after nursing and medicines – with extra than 300,000 clinicians training in neighborhood-centered methods, hospitals/wellbeing methods and a number of other different well being care choices.
The AACP presents management in enhancing the great high quality of schooling and studying and instructing in its member institutions, which entails the 142 instructional amenities of pharmacy accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Instruction as very effectively as particular person members.
Cox will begin out a three-calendar yr time interval as president July 2022.
