Terry L. Schwinghammer, BS Pharm, PharmD, BCPS, FCCP, FASHP, FAPhA, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Clinical Pharmacy and holds the Arthur I. Jacknowitz Distinguished Chair in Clinical Pharmacy at the West Virginia University School of Pharmacy. He received his BS and PharmD degrees from Purdue University and completed a pharmacy residency at Indiana University Hospitals. He is a Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist and has practiced in adult inpatient and ambulatory care settings.
Dr. Schwinghammer is a recipient of the American Pharmacists Association-APPM Distinguished Achievement Award in Clinical/Pharmacotherapeutic Practice and is a Distinguished Practitioner in the National Academies of Practice. His teaching focuses on development of clinical skills, case-based learning, and pharmacotherapy of rheumatic diseases. He is a member of the Academy of Excellence in Teaching and Learning of the WVU Health Sciences Center. In addition to authoring over 75 research papers and journal articles, he is a co-editor of the Pharmacotherapy Casebook and Pharmacotherapy Handbook and is Editor-in-Chief of McGraw-Hill’s AccessPharmacy (www.AccessPharmacy.com). Dr. Schwinghammer has served the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy 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 Pennsylvania Society of Health-System Pharmacists and received both the Pharmacist of the Year and Sister M. Gonzales Lecture Awards from the organization. He has served as Chair of the Board of Pharmacy Specialties and elected member of the Board of Regents of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. He is a Fellow of ACCP, ASHP, and APhA 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. His hobby is collecting apothecary antiques, and he enjoys spending time with his wife Donna and their two children and three grandchildren.