Jodi L. Taylor, PharmD, BCCCP, FASHP (jodi.taylor@ufl.edu) is the assistant dean for curricular affairs and clinical associate professor at the University of Florida College of Pharmacy. She received her received her PharmD from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and completed a postgraduate year one (PGY1) residency at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Memphis, Tennessee. She served as a pharmacy practice faculty member at Union University College of Pharmacy from 2009 to 2024 and department chair from 2015 to 2024. During that time, she also served as a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist in Critical Care at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital. She has been recognized as Teacher of the Year, Faculty Preceptor of the Year and Resident Preceptor of the Year by her students and residents on multiple occasions. Taylor’s efforts in leadership and advocacy have been recognized with the Tennessee Society of Student Pharmacists Student Advocacy Award and Phi Lambda Sigma National Alumni of the Year award.
Taylor’s ASHP activities include director-at-large of the Section of Clinical Specialists and Scientists, Council on Therapeutics member, House of Delegates representative for Tennessee, Best Practices Selection Panel, Pharmacy Forecast Survey Panelist, multi-cycle CV reviewer, and SSHP faculty advisor. Taylor is a past president and secretary/treasurer of Tennessee Society of Health-System Pharmacists, former member of Tennessee Pharmacists Association Board of Directors, and received the 2012 Tennessee Health-System Pharmacist of the Year Award.
The Section of Pharmacy Educators is uniquely poised to bridge the profession from where we are to where we want to be by evaluating processes, structures, approaches, and outcomes to impact pharmacy workforce learners of all levels of experience. The section’s alignment within ASHP presents the opportunity to carefully consider what our patients, our workforce, and the healthcare system need from us and strategically approach what that demands through our preparation of learners. Our strength and ability to drive change is within our collective ideas, knowledge, skills, and voice. I see big opportunities on the horizon, from connection, development and advocacy to environmental scanning, initiatives and summits, and I am excited for the future. I’ve had the extraordinary privilege of learning with and from inspirational mentors and serving patients in a time of great need. I’ve been shaped by both and found great passion in education as a result. To be nominated for section chair is truly an honor, and I greatly appreciate your consideration as we move forward together.