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Patricia A. Chase, Ph.D.
Patricia A. Chase, Ph.D.

Patricia Chase is Professor and the Gates Wigner Dean for the School of Pharmacy at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. She holds a bachelor�s degree from Albany College of Pharmacy, a master�s degree from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and a Ph.D. degree in Education Administration, Supervision and Curriculum Development from the University of Colorado. She completed an ASHP-accredited residency at Albany Medical Center in Albany, New York.

Dr. Chase�s research has focused on topics such as innovative curriculum development, programmatic assessment, leadership, and development of an academic portfolio for the school of pharmacy. While serving as dean at Butler University in Indianapolis, she completed a four-year grant to secure medications for the uninsured. This grant was in partnership with Central Indiana Health Services, Indiana Health and Hospitals, the Indiana Health Centers. In four years, the program secured over $5 million in free drugs for the working poor.

Her scholarly activities include serving as a facilitator for the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Institute for Pedagogical and Curriculum Change and the AACP New Teacher�s Seminar. She also participated in the development of the AACP Education Scholar Program, serving as author for two of the web-based modules. For the past nine years, she has been the keynote speaker for the AACP Academic Leadership Fellows Program. In this capacity, she has taught the academic leadership part of the curriculum.

In 2006, Dr. Chase and her colleagues received an Innovations in Teaching Award from AACP�s Innovations in Teaching Award program for her work on The My First Patient Program. Previously, she received an Honorable Mention from the Innovations in Teaching Award for her work: Discovery Maps: Student-centered Curricular Integration. Her health and wellness program for the faculty and staff at Butler University received a Bronze award from the Indiana Wellness Council in 2006. She has been recognized as a Fellow in the American Society of Health System Pharmacists, received the Outstanding Leadership Award from the Western University of Health Sciences, and Manager of the Year for the Oklahoma Medical Center. In 2003, she was the recipient of the Terry Hageboeck Award which is presented by the graduating class at Butler University to a faculty member for "devotion to the profession of pharmacy with a compassion for students not only in the classroom but also in their personal lives."

While practicing in Maine, Dr. Chase developed a statewide poison education program that was named a Distinguished Community Health Education Program from the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. She subsequently received the Huddilston Award from the Maine Lung Association, thus becoming the first pharmacist to be recognized as the Health Educator of the Year for the State of Maine. She was also recognized as Hospital Pharmacist of the Year by the Maine Society of Health System Pharmacists.

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