Associate Professor Dennis Williams, Pharm.D., and Assistant Professor of Clinical Education Kristen Campbell, Pharm.D., were appointed to the Board of Pharmacy Specialists Specialty Council. The council appointed only 27 pharmacists out of the more than 100 who applied.
Williams is vice chair for professional education and practice in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics. Campbell is member of the Division of Practice Advancement and Clinical Education and a clinical pharmacist at Duke University Hospital.
The BPS Specialty Councils recommend the BPS standards for certification and recertification of pharmacists in the specialty, develop and administer examinations for certification and recertification of pharmacists in the specialty and evaluate the pharmacists who qualify for certification or recertification in the specialty.
Williams and Campbell are both board-certified pharmacotherapy specialists. Williams is also a certified asthma educator, and Campbell is a clinical pharmacist practitioner.
Williams joined the School as a clinical assistant professor in 1983 and was promoted to clinical associate professor in 1991. In 1993 he made the jump to a tenure-track position as an assistant professor and was promoted to associate professor in 2000. As a vice chair of DPET, he has been responsible for professional education and practice since 2008. He held a similar position in the Division of Pharmacy Practice (now PACE) for the first half of the 1990s.
Campbell has been an adjunct assistant professor at the School since 2004. In that time she has also worked as a clinical pharmacist practitioner in the Duke Lipid Center and in the Duke anti-arrhythmic monitoring clinic. She currently serves as the PGY2 Cardiology Residency Program director and as a senior research associate and clinical pharmacist in electrophysiology at Duke University Hospital.