2022 Outstanding Alumnus Award Winner
Timothy Self is Professor Emeritus in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis where he served as a full-time faculty member for 46 years (1972–2018). Tim is a graduate of UT College of Pharmacy (BS Pharm ’71 and PharmD ’72). Dr. Self lectured on the management of asthma, factors affecting response to oral anticoagulants, TB, and several other topics.
He served as preceptor for medicine rotation students and Program Director for the PGY2 Internal Medicine Pharmacy Residency at Methodist University Hospital. Dr. Self was Residency Program Director for 35 residents over 30 years (1988–2018), in UT Bowld Hospital and MUH. As Professor Emeritus, he continued to teach in various courses for 4 academic years after his retirement.
Dr. Self has more than 300 publications, including more than 180 papers in peer-reviewed medical, pharmacy, and nursing journals (e.g. JAMA, Chest, Arch Intern Med, Am J Med Sci, N Engl J Med). Examples of other publications include journal abstracts and book chapters. Tim is especially proud that each one of his 35 residents had a least one (and usually several) publications with him in peer-reviewed journals. These papers included medical and pharmacy colleagues. Dr. Self and his colleagues’ paper are cited in national/international guidelines, including asthma, TB, and thromboembolic disease. Papers by Dr. Self and his residents and associates are also cited in the highest impact journals such as N Engl J Med and Lancet. Abstracts of his asthma research have been presented at national/international meetings, including the American Thoracic Society, the American College of Chest Physicians, the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology, and the World Health Organization.
Dr. Self has given over 150 lectures in 33 states, including numerous lectures across the state of Tennessee, regarding the treatment of asthma and COPD. He has received several teaching awards including the UT National Alumni Association Outstanding Teacher Award and the UT Student Government Association Executive Committee Excellence in Teaching Award. Along with his UTCOP students, Tim volunteered for more than 20 years to provide asthma education for inner city patients at clinics, schools, churches, asthma camp, and community health fairs. Since 1999, Tim has volunteered to deliver meals on wheels to elderly shut-ins for the Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association (MIFA).
In 2018, the Dr. Timothy H. Self and Dr. Melissa Matlock-Self scholarship was established at UT College of Pharmacy. It is noteworthy that over their decades in education, Tim and Melissa have taught several of the same students. Students who receive this scholarship express the desire to pursue post-doctoral residency.
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