This year's keynote speaker is Dr. Julie A. Johnson, PharmD, Dean of the University of Florida College of Pharmacy (since 2013) and Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy and Medicine. She is also Director of the UF Health Personalized Medicine Program. She received her B.S. in Pharmacy from the Ohio State University and her Pharm.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in cardiovascular pharmacology/ pharmacokinetics at Ohio State.

Professor Jim Wang, Biopharmaceutical Sciences, was named the 2018 UIC Distinguished Researcher of the Year in Basic Life Sciences.

Professors Isaac Cha and Bradley Bartels were recognized as the Teachers of the Semester for fall 2018. Dr. Cha was recognized by the P3 students, and Dr. Bartels by both the P1 and P2 classes. Teachers of the Semester are voted on between the 14th and 15th week of the semester by each PharmD class. Congratulations!