Dr. Terry L. Schwinghammer is Professor and Chair, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, West Virginia University School of Pharmacy. In this capacity, he is responsible for directing the department’s missions in the areas of teaching, patient care, scholarship, and service. He was previously Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy. Dr. Schwinghammer received BS and PharmD degrees from Purdue University and completed a pharmacy residency at Indiana University Hospitals. His teaching focuses on the development of clinical and communication skills, case-based learning, and nonprescription drug therapy. While at the University of Pittsburgh, he was named either Teacher of the Year or Faculty Member of the Year on five occasions.

He is a Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist and has practiced in adult inpatient pharmacotherapy and ambulatory care. He is a past recipient of the American Pharmacists Association-APPM Distinguished Achievement Award in Clinical/Pharmacotherapeutic Practice. In 2006, he was named a Distinguished Practitioner in the National Academies of Practice.

In addition to authoring over 60 research papers and journal articles, he is editor of The Pharmacotherapy Casebook, McGraw-Hill, and co-editor of The Pharmacotherapy Handbook, McGraw-Hill. These books are widely used by pharmacy students and practitioners, and both are in their sixth editions. He is also an editor of the new textbook Pharmacotherapy Principles & Practice (2007). He serves as Senior Contributing Editor, Therapeutics, for The American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy.

Dr. Schwinghammer has been active in the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP), the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), the Pennsylvania Society of Health-System Pharmacists (PSHP), the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP), and the Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties (BPS). He has served the AACP as Chair of the Pharmacy Practice Section, Chair of the Council of Faculties, and member of the Board of Directors. He is a past president of the PSHP and was named Pharmacist of the Year in 2001. He is currently Vice-Chair of the BPS and Chair of the BPS Finance Committee. He is a Fellow of ACCP and ASHP and has been elected to membership in the Rho Chi Pharmaceutical Honor Society and the Phi Lambda Sigma Pharmacy Leadership Society. He was named a Distinguished Alumnus of Purdue University in 2004.