Harvey A.K. Whitney Award Lectures

Thomas S. Thielke B.S.Pharm., M.S., FASHP

Mr. Thomas Thielke is the Vice President of Professional and Support Services at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics (UWHC). He oversees the departments of Pharmacy, Radiology, Pathology, Clinical Laboratories, Food and Dietary Services, Emergency Services, Med Flight, Trauma and Emergency Medical Systems Services, Infection Control, and the service lines of Neurosciences (Neurology and Neurosurgery) and Rehabilitation/ Orthopedics/Sports Medicine. He previously served as the Director of Pharmacy at UWHC for 18 years. He is currently a clinical professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy.

Thielke has held several national offices in pharmacy and continues to serve on national professional committees. He chaired the One Voice/One Vision Steering Committee that formed the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin and served as its first chairman of the board. He is a past ASHP president and past chairman of the ASHP House of Delegates. He was named a Fellow of ASHP in June 1993 in recognition of his sustained contributions to practice excellence. He was named Wisconsin's Hospital Pharmacist of the Year in 1978 and 1990. He is also a past president of the Wisconsin Society of Hospital Pharmacists. He has published numerous articles and lectured nationally and internationally on many topics related to health-system pharmacy administration and pharmacy practice. His research interests include pharmacy automation and technology, safe medication-use systems, and multidisciplinary care integration.

Thielke has a great interest in the role of pharmacy worldwide and has served two terms as vice president of the Hospital Pharmacists Section of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), as well as president in 1998-2002. He is the immediate past president of FIP's Hospital Pharmacy Section. His educational responsibilities include program director of the M.S./Residency Program at UWHC and coordinator of research activities for the University of Wisconsin health-system pharmacy graduate program. He received his bachelor of science and master of science degrees from the University of Wisconsin, where he also completed an ASHP-accredited residency.