Charles D. Hepler, Ph.D.
Charles D. (Doug) Hepler is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy of the University of Florida College of Pharmacy. He received a bachelor of science degree in pharmacy from the University of Connecticut in 1960 and enrolled in 1963 in the combined master of science (M.S.) degree/residency program at the University of Iowa. He served as Associate Director of Pharmacy at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, instructor at the University of Iowa, and coordinator of the M.S./residency program at University Hospitals and the Iowa City Veterans Affairs Hospital.
Dr. Hepler completed his doctor of philosophy studies at Iowa in 1973, received tenure as Associate Professor, and joined the pharmacy faculty at the Medical College of Virginia in 1979. He moved to Florida in 1988 as Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmacy Health Care Administration. He was Visiting Professor in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, The Queen’s University of Manchester, England, from 2000 through 2003. When he retired in 2004, he was Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Research in Pharmaceutical Care.
During his 44-year career, Dr. Hepler consulted on pharmaceutical care projects in Denmark, Spain, and British Columbia and helped to develop and demonstrate the quality application of indicators for medication use in community pharmacies in the United States and the United Kingdom.
He has published more than 80 research, scholarly, and professional articles; 14 book chapters; and 3 books. He has spoken at professional meetings in 15 nations and chaired educational programs on pharmaceutical care in community practice from 1993 through 1996 under the auspices of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP).
Dr. Hepler was corecipient (with Linda Strand) of the 1997 Remington Medal from the American Pharmacists Association (APhA). He also received the 2005 Rho Chi Lecture Award; the 1997 FIP Pharmaceutical Practitioner of the Year Award; the 1997 ASHP Award for Sustained Contributions to the Literature of Pharmacy Practice in Health Systems; the 1992 Research Achievement Award in Economic, Marketing and Management Sciences from the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists; the 1991 and 1998 APhA Research Awards in Social, Economic and Administrative Sciences; the 1989 ASHP Research Award; and the 1986 ASHP Award for Achievement in the Professional Practice of Hospital Pharmacy. He was designated a Distinguished Alumnus by the University of Connecticut College of Pharmacy (1998) and the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy (1999).
He is presently a custom furniture maker and a volunteer teacher of English as a Second Language in St. Augustine, Florida.
