January 2, 2014
Joel Farley, PhD, an associate professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has been selected as a fellow of the American Pharmacists Association.
To be selected, an APhA member must have at least ten years of exemplary professional experience and achievements in professional practice and must have rendered outstanding service to the profession through activities in APhA and other organizations.
Farley has a long history of service to the APhA. He has been a postgraduate officer of the APhA Academy of Pharmaceutical Research and Science, served on the policy committee in the House of Delegates, and chaired a number of educational planning committees for the annual meeting. He was recently elected to chair the Economic, Social, and Administrative Sciences Section of APhA beginning in 2015.
Farley’s research focuses on improving medication use in patients with chronic medical conditions through the adoption, evaluation, and dissemination of evidence-based policies and health-care practices. He has more than fifty peer-reviewed publications and has received funding for his research from a number of organizations, including the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Before joining the School’s Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy in 2006, Farley earned a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from the University of Wisconsin and a PhD in social, administrative, and clinical pharmacy from the University of Minnesota. Before receiving his PhD, he worked as a pharmacist in the community setting for ten years.
Farley will be presented with the award at the APhA Annual Meeting & Exposition March 28 to 31 in Orlando, Florida.
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