About the Kremer’s Lecture:
The annual Kremer’s Lecture is an event co-hosted by Rho Chi and PLS, the school’s academic honor society and leadership society, respectively. Every year, a speaker that exemplifies both academic excellence and leadership within the pharmacy community is invited to speak at the school. Everyone in the school is invited to attend, and members of Rho Chi and PLS are invited to a luncheon afterwards with the guest speaker and the dean. Traditionally, the Teacher of the Year awards are announced at the Kremer’s lecture event.
Kremer’s Lecture 2024:
Vicki L. Ellingrod, Pharm.D., FCCP, FACNP, is the Dean of the College of Pharmacy at the University of Michigan and the John Gideon Searle Professor of Translational Pharmacy. She is also a professor of Psychiatry and Psychology within the Medical School and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Within the University of Michigan, she serves as associate director of the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research (MICHR), and principal investigator for the KL2 program, which provides training and mentoring in translational research for health professionals and junior faculty. Both of these initiatives are competitively supported by the National Center for the Advancement of Translational Science (NCATS). She obtained her bachelor’s and PharmD from the University of Minnesota and then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in psychopharmacology/pharmacogenetics at the University of Iowa, followed by joining the faculty there as an assistant professor. Her research has focused on the identification of genetic markers related to drug response in mental illness and has been funded by NIMH (National Institute of Mental Health) the FDA, and industry. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Michigan, Dr. Ellingrod was a practicing clinical pharmacist working on the medical psychiatry unit at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. Dr. Ellingrod is a founding member of the College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists and a fellow of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP), as well as the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP). She also serves as a scientific editor for Pharmacotherapy and the Journal of Clinical and Translational Science and is an editor on the textbook DiPiro’s Pharmacotherapy a Pathophysiologic Approach.
Kremer’s Lecture 2023:
Amy L. Seybert, PharmD, is a Professor and Dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy. Prior to her selection as Dean, she served as chair of the Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics for 12 years. Additionally, she was the Associate Director of Pharmacy Programs at the Peter M. Winter Institute for Simulation, Education, and Research (WISER) and served as the Pharmacy Residency Administrator at UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh, the largest pharmacy residency program in the country.
Dean Seybert is an accomplished faculty member who has been honored as a fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy and of the American Society of Health System Pharmacists. In 2009, she received the American Society of Health System Pharmacists Research and Education Foundation Pharmacy Residency Excellence Preceptor Award. She has earned distinction on the University of Pittsburgh campus as well, having been recognized with the prestigious University of Pittsburgh Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 2006. Currently, Dean Seybert is President of the Board of Directors for the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (which is responsible for accrediting all PharmD programs in the United States).
Dean Seybert has developed a record of outstanding patient care and of creating programs that enhance patient-centered care in cardiovascular disease. She is recognized as an international pharmacy leader in simulation education, and, in 2013, became a certified healthcare simulation educator through the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. Additionally, she established the cardiovascular specialty residency program at the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy which incorporates high-fidelity human patient simulation to advance pharmacotherapy knowledge, clinical decision making and medication safety skills in health care professionals. To date, she has trained over 100 pharmacy residents. An accomplished researcher, Dean Seybert has published over 80 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals and has served as principal investigator on 14 grants in addition to being co-investigator on another 20 grants. Dean Seybert received her BS in pharmacy and her PharmD degree from the University of Pittsburgh. She completed her pharmacy residency in cardiovascular critical care at Tampa General Hospital before returning to Pitt Pharmacy as an assistant professor of pharmacy and therapeutics
Kremer’s Lecture 2022:
Julie Johnson is Dean of the University of Florida College of Pharmacy and Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy and Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine). She received her B.S. in Pharmacy from the Ohio State University and her Pharm.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in cardiovascular pharmacology/ pharmacokinetics at Ohio State.
Dr. Johnson’s research focuses on cardiovascular pharmacogenomics and implementation of precision medicine approaches into clinical practice. She is an internationally-recognized leader in pharmacogenomics and genomic medicine, with over 300 peer reviewed publications and over $50M in research funding as principal investigator. In 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 she was named a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher, indicating she was in the top 1% most highly cited scientists globally in the previous decade.
Under her leadership as dean, the UF College of Pharmacy implemented a new PharmD curriculum, its faculty grew by 90%, the US News and World Report ranking rose from #14 to #5, research funding grew 3.3-fold and research funding rankings rose from the high teens to #3, and it has the highest percentage of under-represented minority students among professional degree programs at UF and top 40 colleges of pharmacy.
Dr. Johnson has had numerous service roles, including with the NIH, FDA, CDC, American Heart Association, American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) and ASCPT, for which she served as President in 2016-17.
Dr. Johnson has received numerous awards. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine, and was inducted as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, along with fellowship in three other societies. She has been the recipient of the Leon I Goldberg Young Investigator Award from the ASCPT, Volwiler Research Achievement Award from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) (2007), the Therapeutic Frontiers Award, and Paul Parker Medal from ACCP, the ASCPT Rawls Palmer Progress in Medicine Award, the PMWC Luminary Award, among others. She has also received teaching awards from both the University of Tennessee and the University of Florida.
Kremer’s Lecture 2021:
The keynote speaker was Dr. Jerry Bauman and he presented his lecture “Linking Clinical Pharmacy Practice to Translational Science: From Quinidine to Cocaine.” Jerry L. Bauman, PharmD is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, Dean Emeritus of the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) College of Pharmacy, Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy, and Medicine Emeritus at UIC. During his tenure as Dean, the UIC College of Pharmacy has been ranked consistently in the top five of all US colleges of pharmacy, both for research and academic programs. Bauman has also served as the (interim) Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost at UIC where he led the academic enterprise, including the successful recruitment of several deans.
Kremer’s Lecture 2019:
The keynote speaker was Dr. Patricia Chase, BS, MS, PhD, recently retired in 2016 after serving as the Dean at WVU School of Pharmacy for 10 years. Prior to retirement she served on the ASHP Board of Directors and in faculty positions at the University of Oklahoma and the University of Colorado. Additionally, she was Director of Pharmacy for three hospitals in Oklahoma and Director of Pharmacy Services at University Hospital in Denver. She has been recognized as a Fellow in the American Society of Health System Pharmacists (ASHP). Chase has published on topics such as implementing pharmaceutical care, managing human resources and documenting clinical services. She has presented over 200 lectures to a wide range of audiences. Patricia Chase presented “2061- An Adventure into the Future” and her lecture challenged students to reflect on the dynamic changes that they will experience in the future.
Kremer’s Lecture 2018:
The keynote speaker was Dr. Marie Chisholm-Burns, Dean of the University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy. Dr. Chisholm-Burns discussed her work improving medication access, adherence and clinical outcomes in solid-organ transplant recipients in her lecture titled “Research in Practice: Pharmacists’ Value in Providing Patient Care.”
Kremer’s Lecture 2017:
The keynote speaker was Jean Nappi, Pharm.D, FCCP, BCPS (AQ Cardiology). She is a Professor of Clinical Pharmacy and Outcome Sciences, Associate Director of Graduate Pharmacy Education and Professor of Medicine at Medical University of South Carolina. Her talk was titled “Being a leader (without being in charge).”
Kremer’s Lecture 2016:
The keynote speaker was Dr. Hewitt W. “Ted” Matthews BS, BS, MS, PhD, and Dean of the Mercer University College of Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia. Through his service and leadership of more than 25 years at the same institution, the pharmacy program has gone from being unranked to being ranked the fourth best private pharmacy school in the nation by U.S. News and World Report. Among many other awards noting his outstanding personal and professional achievements, Dr. Hewitt was awarded the 2012 American Pharmacists Association Academy of Student Pharmacists Outstanding Dean Award. He has also served as President of the National Pharmaceutical Association as well as Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Pharmaceutical Association Foundation (NPhAF).
Kremer’s Lecture 2015:
The keynote speaker was Bruce Mueller PharmD, FCCP, FASN, FNKF, and professor and associate dean of Academic Affairs at the College of Pharmacy in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is also a fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, American Society of Nephrology, and the National Kidney Foundation. Dean Mueller spoke about incorporating interprofessional health education into pharmacy curricula through a talk titled “Breaking Down the Silos of Pharmacy Education.”
Kremer’s Lecture 2014:
The keynote speaker was Judith Jacobi, PharmD, FCCM, FCCP, BCPS, and current president of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, previous president of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, and a practicing critical care pharmacist for Indiana University Health.
Kremer’s Lecture 2013:
The keynote speaker was John A. Bosso, Pharm. D., FCCP, FIDSA, a professor and Chair of the Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Outcome Science at the South Carolina College of Pharmacy. He is also a professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Disease and the Medical University of South Carolina–Charleston, South Carolina. Prof. Bosso spoke about “Servant Leadership and Professionalism”.