Wisniewski, Thompson, ’05, honored at American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Annual Meeting

The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Annual meeting, held in Chicago in late July, honored two of the MUSC pharmacy family.

Faculty member Chris Wisniewski finished the Academic Leadership Fellows Program (ALFP), an intense one-year leadership development program for pharmacy educators run by AACP, and was recognized for this accomplishment with his fellow cohort members.

The ALFP develops and supports leaders in the Academy who contribute to the advancement of pharmacy education, higher education, and the pharmacy profession. It provides an opportunity for Fellows to expand networking relationships with peers and colleagues in other institutions, as well as within their own college and university. The ALFP curriculum is reviewed annually to ensure content is contemporary and appropriate to the program’s leadership objectives.

The college’s Danielle Townsend, professor and interim co-chair of drug discovery and biomedical sciences, has already been selected for the 2025-2026 ALFP cohort.

Also honored at the AACP Annual Meeting was alumna and former faculty member Amy Thompson, '05, who followed her Pharm.D. at MUSC with consecutive MUSC pharmacy residencies. She is now director of community health and engagement and clinical professor of pharmacy at the University of Michigan. She led Michigan to win the 2025 AACP Lawrence C. Weaver Transformative Community Award. 

The award is presented annually to one college or school of pharmacy, demonstrating a major institutional commitment to addressing unmet community needs through education, practice, and research. The award consists of a commemorative sculpture honoring the institution’s extraordinary social commitment and a $5,000 honorarium.