2026 Kremers Memorial Lecture
The Rho Chi Honor Society Eta Chapter and Phi Lambda Sigma are pleased to announce that the 2026 Kremers Lecture will be given by Dr. Angela Kashuba, B.Sc.Phm., Pharm.D., DABCP, FCP.
Angela Kashuba, B.Sc.Phm., Pharm.D., DABCP, FCP, is the John A and Margaret P McNeill, Sr. Distinguished Professor and former Dean of the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy (2019-2025). She has been on faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 1997 and served as the Chair of the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics from 2015 to 2019. Dr. Kashuba serves as co-Principle Investigator of the UNC Center for AIDS Research and leads a research laboratory focused on optimizing antiretroviral pharmacology in the treatment, prevention, and eradication of HIV infection. Her laboratory has authored over 300 manuscripts and received over $40 million in research funding as PI. She was inducted into the Phi Lambda Sigma Pharmacy Leadership Society (Epsilon Chapter) in 2025, and has received the 2024 Carolina Alumni Faculty Service Award, the 2020 ASCPT Rawls–Palmer Progress in Medicine Award, 2017 ACCP (Pharmacology) Honorary Fellowship Award, and the 2017 ACCP (Pharmacy) Therapeutic Frontiers Lecture Award. Dr. Kashuba received her Bachelor’s in Pharmacy Degree from the University of Toronto and her Doctor of Pharmacy Degree from SUNY Buffalo (Rho Chi 1995). She completed a residency at Women’s College Hospital and a clinical pharmacology research fellowship at the Clinical Pharmacology Research Center at Bassett Healthcare in Cooperstown, NY.
Kremers Lecture
Tuesday, April 7th, 2026
12:00-1:00 pm
Location: HSLC 1306
About Kremers Lecture
The Kremers Memorial Lecture has been sponsored yearly by the Eta Chapter of the Rho Chi Society since 1950. In 1882, at the age of 27, Edward Kremers became the head of the University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy. He led the School of Pharmacy for four decades during its formative period. He was an educator, scientist, and academician whose efforts left a lasting imprint on the profession of pharmacy, both nationally and at the University of Wisconsin. In 1950, the Rho Chi Eta chapter instituted an annual lecture series in his honor. Like Edward Kremers, the annual lecturer is a scientist and educator, or a creative leader in the health sciences.
Past Kremers Lecturers
The 2025 Kremers Lecture was given by Dr. Lee Vermeulen. He is the Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP). Prior to serving as AACPs 7th EVP and CEO, Vermeulen held a variety of executive positions at UK HealthCare, the University of Kentucky health system, and at UW Health, the health system of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The 2024 Kremers Lecture was given by Dr. Vicki L. Ellingrodis, the Dean of the College of Pharmacy at the University of Michigan and the John Gideon Searle Professor of Translational Pharmacy and professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at the Medical School and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The 2023 Kremer’s lecture was given by Dr. Amy L. Seybert, dean and professor of the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy who previously served as chair of the Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics for 12 years. Her lecture was titled “Reengaging the Contemporary Learner.”
The 2022 Kremer’s lecture was given by Dr. Julie A. Johnson, PharmD. Dr. Johnson was the past dean of the University of Florida College of Pharmacy and is a distinguished professor of pharmacy and medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine). The title of her lecture was “Improving Clinical Outcomes through Pharmacogenetics.”
The 2021 Kremer’s lecture was given by Dr. Jerry Baumann, dean and professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy and past president of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. His lecture was titled “Translational Science: From Quinidine to Cocaine.”
Dr. Pat Chase gave the 2019 Kremers Lecture, titled “2061- An Adventure into the Future.”
The 2018 Kremers Lecture was given by Dr. Marie A. Chisholm-Burns, PharmD, MPH, MBA, FCCP, FASHP, FAST, the Dean and Professor of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Pharmacy and Professor of Surgery in the College of Medicine. Her lecture was titled “Leadership, Possibilities, and Pharmacists’ Value in Patient Care.”
The 2017 Kremers Lecture speaker was Jean Nappi, PharmD, 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).”
The guest lecturer 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).
The Kremers 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.”
The Kremers 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.
The Kremers speaker was John A. Bosso, PharmD, 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”.