Barbara G. Wells, BS Pharm, PharmD, FCCP, FASHP, is Dean Emeritus and Professor Emeritus at the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy and Executive Director Emeritus of the Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences. She earned her BS Pharm and PharmD degrees at the University of Tennessee and completed a residency in psychiatric pharmacy practice at the University of Tennessee and Memphis Mental Health Institute.
She is past president of the College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists Foundation (CPNPF). She is a past president and chair of the Board of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) and the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP). She is a past member of the NIH Advisory Committee on Research on Women’s Health and of the FDA Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee. Her primary instructional interests are in psychiatric therapeutics, and she has received seven teaching awards. She is the recipient of the Robert K. Chalmers Distinguished Pharmacy Educator Award from AACP, the Paul F. Parker Medal from ACCP, the Gloria Niemeyer Francke Leadership Mentor Award from the American Pharmacists Association, and the Career Achievement Award from the CPNPF. She is a member of the National Academy of Practice of Pharmacy within the National Academies of Practice. Other books that she co-edits are Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach and the Pharmacotherapy Handbook.