DENVER (CO)-Celina High School graduate and Cookeville Regional Medical Center (CRMC) director of pharmacy Casey White was recently installed as the 2018–21 Chair of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) House of Delegates, after winning election to the office during the group’s second meeting here at the site of the ASHP Summer Meetings and Exhibition.
The Clay County native, who is the first Tennessean to be elected to the position, is also a clinical instructor for the University of Tennessee, Lipscomb University, and Union University.
He has served ASHP in various capacities, including as the 2016–17 Chair of the Section of Clinical Specialists and Scientists, a member of the Council on Therapeutics, and a Tennessee Delegate to the House of Delegates for the past 10 years.
White is a past president of the Tennessee Society of Health-System Pharmacists (TSHP) and the Tennessee Pharmacists Association (TPA). He has received TSHP’s Pharmacist of the Year and Innovative Pharmacy Practice awards and TPA’s Young Pharmacist of the Year award.
White received his Pharm.D. degree from the University of Tennessee and M.B.A. degree from the University of Memphis. He completed a residency training program at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Memphis.
ASHP is a professional organization that represents pharmacists who serve as patient care providers in acute and ambulatory care settings. The organization’s 45,000 members include pharmacists, student pharmacists, and pharmacy technicians.