KRAUS NAMED HELMS AWARD RECIPIENT

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Donna Kraus, PharmD has been named the PPAG 2013 recipient of the Richard A. Helms Award for Excellence in Pediatric Pharmacy Practice. Dr. Kraus received her Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy (‘77) and Doctor of Pharmacy (‘82) from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She completed a postdoctoral pediatric specialty residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio (‘83). Dr. Kraus served as a pediatric intensive care clinical pharmacist for 15 years and for the past 14 years has been an ambulatory care pediatric clinical pharmacist, specializing in pediatric HIV pharmacotherapy and patient/ parent medication adherence. Dr. Kraus has also served as a clinical pharmacist consultant to a pediatric long-term care facility for over 21 years. She currently holds the appointment of Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice in both the Departments of Pharmacy Practice and Pediatrics at the University of Illinois in Chicago.Dr. Kraus is an active educator at UIC and has been a guest lecturer in China, Thailand, and Hong Kong. She has played a leading role in the advanced training of postgraduate pharmacists and has been the Director of the ASHP accredited Pediatric Residency Program at UIC for 25 years. Dr. Kraus’ research areas include pediatric drug dosing and developmental pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. She has published 30 articles and 10 book chapters on various issues of pediatric pharmacy and pharmacotherapy. Dr. Kraus is co-author of the Pediatric & Neonatal Dosage Handbook (previously called the Pediatric Dosage Handbook), which is currently in its 19th edition.Dr. Kraus has been an active member of numerous professional associations including the American Pharmacists Association (APhA), American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), Illinois Pharmacists Association (IPhA), American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP), and Illinois College of Clinical Pharmacy (ICCP). She has served as Chairperson of the ASHP Commission on Therapeutics; member of the Board of Directors of the Pediatric Pharmacy Advocacy Group (PPAG); Member-at-Large of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Research and Science (APhA); member of the ASHP, Commission on Credentialing, Design/Writing Group, Educational Outcomes, Goals and Objectives for Postgraduate Year Two (PGY2) Pediatric Pharmacy Residency Programs (2007); member of the Alliance for Pediatric Quality, Improve First Measures Task Force; and member of the PPAG Advisory Board. Dr. Kraus also served as an Editorial Board member of the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy and the Journal of Pediatric Pharmacy Practice. Currently, she serves as an Editorial Board member of The Journal of Pediatric Pharmacology and Therapeutics.Dr. Kraus has been elected to Fellow status by the American Pharmacists Association, the Pediatric Pharmacy Advocacy Group, and the American College of Clinical Pharmacy.