UAMS College of Pharmacy Dean Honored with National Award as ‘Outstanding Dean’
| style="text-align: justify;">LITTLE ROCK – University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Associate Provost and College of Pharmacy Dean Stephanie Gardner, Pharm. D., Ed. D., has been honored with the national Outstanding Dean Award by the American Pharmacists Association — Academy of Student Pharmacists.
The award recognizes school or college of pharmacy deans nationwide who have made significant contributions to the organization’s chapters and who have promoted with distinction the welfare of student pharmacists through various community service, leadership and professional activities.
Gardner became dean of the college in May 2003, and before her appointment as dean, she served for 13 years as a member of the college’s faculty. She was appointed associate provost in 2013.
She is a past recipient of the Senior Clinical Faculty Award and the Dale Bumpers AHEC Leadership Award and served as chair of the Women Faculty Special Interest Group the Council of Deans, all at UAMS. Gardner has served on numerous committees of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education, serving as president in 2014.
In 1989, Gardner earned her doctorate in pharmacy from the University of North Carolina. She held a research fellowship in cardiovascular pharmacology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland from 1989-1991. In 2001, Gardner earned a doctorate in education from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
UAMS is the state’s only health sciences university, with colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Professions and Public Health; a graduate school; a hospital; a main campus in Little Rock; a Northwest Arkansas regional campus in Fayetteville; a statewide network of regional campuses; and eight institutes: the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, Psychiatric Research Institute, Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, Translational Research Institute, Institute for Digital Health & Innovation and the Institute for Community Health Innovation. UAMS includes UAMS Health, a statewide health system that encompasses all of UAMS’ clinical enterprise. UAMS is the only adult Level 1 trauma center in the state. UAMS has 3,275 students, 890 medical residents and fellows, and five dental residents. It is the state’s largest public employer with more than 12,000 employees, including 1,200 physicians who provide care to patients at UAMS, its regional campuses, Arkansas Children’s, the VA Medical Center and Baptist Health. Visit www.uams.edu or uamshealth.com. Find us on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), YouTube or Instagram.###