Charles D. Hepler is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Pharmacy Health Care Administration of the University of Florida College of Pharmacy. Until his retirement in 2004 he was Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Research in Pharmaceutical Care at the University of Florida. He was Visiting Professor in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Manchester, England from 2000 - 2003. Professor Hepler received the B.S. in Pharmacy from the University of Connecticut and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Iowa. He was principal investigator of the Therapeutic Outcomes Monitoring Project, which developed a practical system for pharmaceutical care in community pharmacy. He has consulted on pharmaceutical care projects in Denmark, Spain, and British Columbia. He is currently studying quality indicators for medications use and their application to continuous quality improvement in community pharmacies. He has written more than 80 research, scholarly and professional articles, 14 book chapters, and three books. His recent book, Preventing Medication Errors and Improving Drug Therapy Outcomes (co-authored with Richard Segal) is a comprehensive exploration of medication use systems on four levels. It offers theoretical and practical solutions to problems of medications misuse. Prof. Hepler has presented more than 60 professional papers at professional meetings in 15 nations, including strategic planning exercises for the Department of Health in the United Kingdom and the Council of Europe. He chaired programs on pharmaceutical care in community practice, offered by the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) from 1993-6 in Tokyo, Lisbon, Stockholm and Jerusalem. In spring of 1997 he completed a six-city lecture tour of New Zealand, promoting discussion of drug therapy optimization among pharmacists and general practice physicians. He was co-recipient (with Linda Strand) of the 1997 Remington Medal, awarded by the American Pharmaceutical Association (A.Ph.A.). He has also received the 2005 Rho Chi Lecture Award; the 1997 F.I.P. Pharmaceutical Practitioner of the Year; the 1997 ASHP Award for Sustained Contributions to the Literature of Pharmacy Practice in Health Systems; 1992 Research Achievement Award in Economic, Marketing and Management Sciences from the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists; the 1991 and 1998 A.Ph.A. Research Awards in Social, Economic and Administrative Sciences; the 1989 ASHP Research Award; and the 1986 ASHP Award for Achievement in the Professional Practice of Hospital Pharmacy. He has been designated as a Distinguished Alumnus by the University of Connecticut College of Pharmacy (1998) and the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy (1999). He is a Corresponding (Honorary) Member of the Swiss Pharmaceutical Society and has received the Award of Distinction from the College of Pharmacy of Gipuzkoa (Spain). Selected Publications 1. Hepler CD, Strand LM. Opportunities and responsibilities in pharmaceutical care. Am J Pharm Ed 1989; 53(SUPPL):7s-15s 2. Hepler CD, Grainger-Rousseau TJ. Pharmaceutical care versus traditional drug treatment-- is there a difference? Drugs 1995; 49:1-10. 3. Hepler CD. Philosophical issues raised by pharmaceutical care. Journal of Pharmacy Teaching 1996; 5:(1/2)19-47. 4. Odedina FT, Hepler CD, Segal R, Miller D. The pharmacists' implementation of pharmaceutical care (PIPC) model. Pharmaceutical Research 1997; 14:135-144. 5. Hepler, CD. Regulating for outcomes as a systems response to the problem of drug-related morbidity. J. Am. Pharm. Assoc. 2001; 41:108-115. 6. Herborg H, Søndergaard B, Frøkjær B, et al. Quality Improvement of drug therapy for asthma patients in Denmark.: analysis of patient outcomes. J. Am. Pharm. Assoc. 2001; 41:539-550 7. Herborg H, Søndergaard B, Gustafsson T, et al. Quality improvement of drug therapy for asthma patients in Denmark.: use of anti-asthmatic medication. J. Am. Pharm. Assoc. 2001; 41:551-559. 8. Hepler C D and Segal R. Preventing medication errors and improving drug therapy outcomes through system management, Boca Raton, FL:CRC Press, 2003.