Nappi honored with the 2022 Rho Chi Lecture Award

It was the 100th anniversary of the founding of the academic honor society Rho Chi, so they needed a powerhouse speaker to commemorate the occasion. They found one.

In fact, they found one just a few months shy of her own anniversary -- June marks Jean Nappi's 50th anniversary of her induction into the Omega chapter as a student. During those 50 years, professor emeritus Jean Nappi contributed so significantly to pharmacy and pharmacy education that she was recently honored with the national 2022 Rho Chi Lecture Award.

Her presentation for the 2022 Rho Chi Lecture Award was titled “Reading Tea Leaves.” Her mother, a native of Scotland, told her how her grandmother used to read tea leaves as a way of seeing the future. The presentation takes a look back at pharmacy’s roots and considers its possible futures.

The Rho Chi Lecture Award is one of the society’s highest distinctions and it recognizes outstanding achievement by distinguished scholars from the fields of the arts, letters, or sciences who have made significant contributions to the health professions.

 

Dr. Jean Nappi

Jean Nappi is a nationally recognized leader, clinician, mentor, and educator in pharmacy practice. Throughout her 40 plus year history in academia, Dr. Nappi has been at the forefront of pharmacy and post-graduate residency training.

Dr. Nappi received her BS in pharmacy at the State University of New York at Buffalo, her Doctor of Pharmacy at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. She completed an Internal Medicine Specialty Practice Residency in Clinical Pharmacy at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. She began her career in academia at the University of Wisconsin and taught at the University of Utah and the University of Houston.

As a nationally recognized leader in pharmacy, Dr. Nappi has served as President of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy where she was the first female president. She is a multiple recipient of the MUSC Clinical Services Recognition Award and has received the ACCP Clinical Practice Award. As a passionate educator, she has received the ACCP Education Award and the ACCP Robert K. Chalmers Distinguished Pharmacy Educator Award. She served as Director of the Pharmacy Residency Program for 5 years and as the Director of MUSC’s Pharmacotherapy Residency Program for 10 years. She pioneered the Academic Preparation Program which prepares pharmacy residents to work as educators throughout the residency programs in South Carolina.

Her mentorship of pharmacy students and residents who have become educators and scholars leaves a lasting legacy in pharmacy practice. Dr. Nappi is a devoted scholar with substantial contributions to the pharmacy literature. She has published 122 peer-reviewed articles and written 31 book chapters.