Dy-Boarman Accepted to AACP Academic Leadership Fellows Program
Thursday, September 19th, 2024
Eliza Dy-Boarman, Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Assistant Dean for Clinical Affairs in Drake University’s College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (CPHS), was accepted into the 21st cohort of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Academic Leadership Fellows Program (ALFP) for 2024-25. Dy-Boarman is the sixth current faculty member in the CPHS to be accepted into this program. Other CPHS faculty members who have completed the fellowship include Renae Chesnut (Cohort 2), Erik Maki (Cohort 15), Michelle Bottenberg (Cohort 17), Shankar Munusamy (Cohort 19), and Anisa Hansen (Cohort 20).
The ALFP supports and contributes to the development of leaders in academic pharmacy and higher education. The program also provides an opportunity for Fellows to expand relationships with peers and colleagues in other institutions, as well as within their own college and university. The interactive, year-long program consists of four sessions with in-depth leadership development, team building and networking, exploration of issues critical to pharmacy and higher education, a team project, and more.
Dy-Boarman is dedicated to experiential learning and scholarship of teaching and learning. She was named the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Emerging Teaching Scholar Awardee in 2019 and completed the AACP Leadership and Management Certificate program in 2020. In 2021, she earned the AACP Experiential Education Award for Excellence in Experiential Education.
Dy-Boarman puts her knowledge of education to use through several leadership roles in professional organizations and within the CPHS and wider campus at Drake University. She has served on multiple AACP committees and editorial boards for Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning and INNOVATIONS in Pharmacy, and she has been on the Iowa Pharmacy Association Education Advisory Committee. She has served on the university’s Institutional Review Board and within CPHS has served as a Post-Graduate Teaching and Learning Curriculum Director, Mock Pharmacy Residency Interviewer, and a member of both the Assessment Committee and Pharmacy Practice Department Leadership Team.
“Participation in this prestigious program has been a long-time goal of mine, and it is an honor to be a member of Cohort 21,” Dy-Boarman said. “I am eager to continue my growth as a leader and to apply my leadership skills to my work as Assistant Dean within CPHS.”
