Lee Vermeulen, B.S.Pharm., of AACP is next VITALS speaker
Lee Vermeulen, B.S.Pharm., M.S., FCCP, FFIP, CEO of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, will share "Current Challenges and Future Opportunities in Pharmacy Education" on the next VITALS | Visionary Health Leadership in Action at noon Thursday, Sept. 5, in Watanakunakorn Auditorium and via Zoom.
VITALS is NEOMED’s health leadership series in collaboration with University Hospitals.
Each month, we give health leaders 17 minutes (the average length of a physician visit) to address one of the VITALS topics: Value-based, Innovation, Technology, Advocacy, Leadership or Service. The presentation is followed by a Q&A with WKYC senior health correspondent Monica Robins.
About Lee Vermeulen
Vermeulen is executive vice president and CEO of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP), the national organization representing pharmacy education in the United States, providing leadership in advancing and enhancing the quality of education and training in its member institutions – the 142 U.S. colleges and schools of pharmacy – as well as individual members including administrators, faculty and staff of those institutions. AACP also represents more than 50,000 student pharmacists enrolled in professional programs and 5,100 individuals pursuing graduate study.
Prior to joining as AACP, Vermeulen held a variety of executive positions at UK HealthCare, the University of Kentucky health system, and at UW Health, the health system of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. At both health systems, he was responsible for the development and oversight of enterprise-wide efforts to reduce unnecessary care variation under consistent, evidence-based standards, thus achieving measurable improvements in quality and patient outcomes, and reducing cost. He has held academic appointments as professor of medicine and pharmacy at the University of Kentucky, as well as clinical professor of pharmacy at UW-Madison. He is an active health services researcher with over 80 peer-reviewed publications, with an emphasis on interventions that improve the efficient delivery of high-quality health care, as well as forecasting emerging trends in health care cost and value.
Vermeulen received a B.S. degree in pharmacy from the University of Buffalo, and an M.S. degree in pharmacy administration from the UW-Madison. He completed residency training in pharmacy practice and pharmacy administration at the UW Hospital and Clinics and served a fellowship in medical technology assessment at the University Health system Consortium (now Vizient).