Linda M. Spooner

2024 Distinguished Service Award Winner

Linda Spooner, PharmD, BCPS, FASHP, FCCP is a professor of pharmacy practice at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences School of Pharmacy- Worcester/Manchester in Worcester, Massachusetts. She maintains a clinical practice site in inpatient internal medicine as well as an outpatient practice in infectious diseases at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester.

Spooner earned her BS in pharmacy from the University of Connecticut and her doctor of pharmacy from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. She completed a specialty residency in internal medicine at Brackenridge Hospital/University of Texas at Austin. She spent the first five years of her career as an assistant professor at the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy at Rutgers University. She then moved to Massachusetts to accept the position she currently holds. Over the past 25 years, Spooner's practice has focused on infectious diseases, with an emphasis on HIV and viral hepatitis. She has written numerous review articles and textbook chapters focusing on antiretroviral therapy. She coordinates an elective course focusing on HIV and viral hepatitis, and her teaching in the core pharmacy curriculum revolves around these topics as well. She enjoys providing continuing education sessions that focus on the role of the pharmacist in improving care of people living with HIV.

Spooner has been a member of ASHP since she was a second-year pharmacy student. One of her first leadership positions in ASHP includes chairing the Educational Steering Committee of the Section of Inpatient Care Practitioners (SICP). She has also developed and presented numerous sessions and posters at ASHP Midyear Clinical Meetings and summer meetings. She served on the executive committee of the SCIP from 2016-2019, serving as chair in 2017-2018. She earned fellowship in ASHP and in the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. She enjoys remaining active in ASHP through student activities and mentoring.