Researcher, clinician ‘CAB’ Bond dies at 60

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Distinguished pharmacy researcher and ambulatory care pioneer C.A. “CAB” Bond, Pharm.D., FASHP, FCCP, died June 8 at his home in Amarillo, Texas, at age 60. He had liver cancer and was awaiting an organ transplant. A prolific author, Bond wrote or cowrote more than 140 articles and book chapters during his career. Eight of those articles received recognition by the ASHP Foundation Literature Awards program as important contributions to the literature of pharmacy practice in hospitals and health systems. In 2005, he received the Russell R. Miller Award from the American College of Clinical Pharmacy for his significant contributions to the clinical pharmacy literature. He was a coinvestigator for the periodic National Clinical Pharmacy Services Survey, which has collected data since 1989. Perhaps not as well known are Bond’s early contributions to ambulatory care pharmacy practice. Bond, who arrived at the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1973 as an assistant professor, was the first pharmacist to practice in the clinics at the local Veterans Administration (VA) hospital, said Arthur A. Schuna, now clinical coordinator of the facility’s pharmacy department.