Gatewood named 2015 APhA-APPM fellow
School of Pharmacy associate professor Sharon Gatewood has been selected a fellow by the American Pharmacists Association Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management. She is one of 10 pharmacists nationwide to be chosen for exemplary professional achievements and service to the profession via APhA and other professional organizations.
Gatewood is an alumna of the School of Pharmacy, having earned her Pharm.D. in 2002. She received her B.S. in chemistry at VCU in 1997. A faculty member since 2006, her focus area is community pharmacy practice, including immunizations, travel health, over-the-counter medications and colds and allergies. She is a clinical pharmacist at Martin’s Pharmacy and a primary care pharmacist at The Daily Planet.
As primary preceptor and Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience site coordinator at Martin’s Pharmacy, she works in areas ranging from immunizations and pre-travel health to medication therapy management and diabetes. She also serves as primary preceptor for the Community Pharmacy Practice Residency.
Gatewood’s professional activities and service have included membership in APhA-APPM’s Executive Committee; the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association’s editorial advisory board; and Ukrop’s Super Market Pharmacy’s Immunization Program and Living Healthy With Diabetes Advisory Committees. She has served as chairwoman of the APhA Education Standing Committee and as co-chairwoman of the Virginia Pharmacists Association Meeting and Education Committee.
Previous recognition includes APhA’s 2013 Community Pharmacy Residency Excellence in Precepting Award; VPhA’s 2013 Ed D. Spearbeck Virginia Pharmacist Service Award; VPhA’s 2010 Pharmacists Mutual Distinguished Young Pharmacist Award; the School of Pharmacy Office of Experiential Education’s 2010 Outstanding Mentor Award; the 2010 APhA-APPM Innovative Practice Report Award; and three awards garnered during the 2009 Health Resources and Services Administration Patient Safety and Clinical Pharmacy Services Collaborative, Learning Session 4. In 2012-13, she was named a member of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores Foundation’s inaugural Faculty Scholars Program.
Gatewood will be recognized as a 2015 APhA-APPM fellow during the APhA 2015 Annual Meeting & Exposition in March in San Diego, Calif.
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