2014 Outstanding Alumnus Award Winner
Bruce Canaday is Dean and Professor at the St. Louis College of Pharmacy. Prior to joining the St. Louis faculty team he was Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Pharmacy Administration at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy of the University of the Sciences.
Before joining the PCP faculty he was Clinical Professor and Vice-Chair in the Division of Pharmacy Practice of the University of North Carolina. He served as Director of the Department of Pharmacotherapy at the Southeast Area Health Education Center in Wilmington N.C. where he spent 35 years as a clinician, educator, consultant and preceptor for students and residents. He maintained a clinical practice at New Hanover Regional Medical Center working in collaboration with the Internal Medicine Residency Program. His major practice interest area is pain management.
Dr. Canaday received his B.S. from Purdue University and his Pharm.D. from the University of Tennessee. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Health-system Pharmacists (ASHP). He served on the ASHP Board of Directors from 1994-2000, including three terms on the Board as Chair of the ASHP House of Delegates and was elected to serve as ASHP President and Chairman of the Board in 1998-1999.
He is a Fellow of the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) through the Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management (APPM) and has served as the Chairman of the Academy’s Clinical/ Pharmacotherapeutic Section. He was elected to serve on the APhA Board of Trustees from 2002 – 2008 and as President and Chairman of the Board of Trustees in 2006-2007.
In 2010 he was appointed by the APhA Board to serve a six year term on the Board of Directors of the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) and currently serves as Vice-President of the Board.
Bruce and his wife Victoria have four children and seven grandchildren.
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