Joseph T. Dipiro PharmD

Dr. Joseph T. DiPiro is a dean, professor, and Archie. O. McCalley chair at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Pharmacy in Richmond, Virginia. From 2005 to 2014, he was the executive dean of the South Carolina College of Pharmacy. He received his BS in pharmacy in the Honors College from the University of Connecticut and Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Kentucky. He served a residency at the University of Kentucky Medical Center and a fellowship in Clinical Immunology at Johns Hopkins University. From 1981 to 2005, DiPiro was a faculty member at the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy and the Medical College of Georgia.

He serves as president of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and past chair of the Council of Deans. He has served as president of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. He is a fellow of the college and has served on the Research Institute Board of Trustees. He has been a member of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, having served on the Commission on Therapeutics and the Task Force on Science. In 2002, the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy selected DiPiro for the Robert K. Chalmers Distinguished Educator Award.