Washington pharmacist Timothy Fuller dies at 75 years.

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Timothy Stephen Fuller, collaborative practice trailblazer and longtime pharmacist–consultant for the Washington State Board of Pharmacy, died January 17 at his home in Sequim. He was 75 years old. Fuller was widely known for his research and advocacy on collaborative practice for pharmacists, an issue he championed during more than 2 decades of service with the pharmacy board. He was instrumental in establishing the nation’s first collaborative model for pharmacists to administer vaccines, and he helped normalize the profession’s role in providing emergency contraceptives and other drug therapies. In 1996, Fuller and editor Christopher P. Barry published the Handbook of Collaborative Drug Therapy Management. The handbook became a national blueprint for pharmacists to expand the reach and practical autonomy of the profession through collaborative practice agreements. “Throughout his career—as a pharmacy leader in hospitals and with the Washington Board of Pharmacy—Tim Fuller was committed to implementing cutting-edge solutions to optimize...