Commencement speaker for the Class of 2020

Jan Engle, PharmD., PhD. (Hon), FAPhA, FCCP, FNAP

Executive Director of the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE)

Dr. Engle is the past president of the American Pharmacists Association (APhA), the national professional society of pharmacists with over 60,000 members. She has served as a voting member of the FDA Nonprescription Drug Advisory Committee and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS).  Dr. Engle was elected as a Distinguished Practitioner in the National Academies of Practice in Pharmacy and is a Fellow of the APhA Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management and a Fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy.  She also has received the APhA Distinguished Achievement Award for Clinical/Pharmacotherapeutic Practice.

Dr. Engle is an internationally recognized expert on the topics of nonprescription medicines, pharmacy education, ambulatory care pharmacy practice and leadership and is very active in international pharmacy. She has served as Chair of the ACPE International Commission and is serving a third term as overseas expert of the Post Graduate Allied Health Institute Board at Singapore General Hospital.  Dr. Engle worked with National Taiwan University and was a guest professor at Harbin Medical University in China. She worked with the Pharmacy Council of Thailand and received an honorary PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Khon Kaen University in Thailand. She has served as a consultant to the Western Pacific Region of the World Health Organization.  She has practiced pharmacy in community, hospital, long-term care and pharmacy-directed ambulatory clinic settings.