College of Pharmacy Alumni Award Winners
Timothy L. Tucker, Pharm. D.
Outstanding Alumnus Award Winner
The Outstanding Alumnus Award is the highest award the UT College of Pharmacy Alumni
Association can present to its graduates. It is given in recognition of service to the College; community service; leadership in local, state or national health or non-health related
organizations and teaching or research activities. The Outstanding Alumnus Award will be presented to Timothy L. Tucker. Pharm.D. during the 2009 Alumni Awards & Reunion Luncheon.
Tim attended undergraduate school at Union University and received his B.S. in Chemistry. After graduating with his Pharm.D. degree from the UT College of Pharmacy in 1988, Dr. Tucker joined the
family-owned City Drug Company where he has implemented several new pharmacy services such as diabetes care, asthma education and immunization administration.
He has served in a variety of practice settings including community pharmacy, health-system as a Relief Pharmacist with Baptist Memorial Hospital in Huntingdon, TN, and long-term care consulting as president of Tucker & Roe, Inc.
Dr. Tucker was a faculty member at UTHSC, president of the TPA, president of the Tennessee Board of Pharmacy, and speaker of the house for TPA for more than 10 years. He has served in advisory positions and on committees with the APhA for more than 20 years, including finishing nine years on the APhA board where he recently completed the 2008-09 term where he served as President.
He has served as county chairman for the American Heart Association. He served as past chairman and co-chairman for the American Cancer Society for the past 10 years in their Relay for Life program and was named Volunteer of the Year for Tennessee and Volunteer of the Year for the Mid-South in 2006.
In addition to his public service, Dr. Tucker has been actively involved in community organizations. He is currently a member of the city council and is a past vice mayor for the Town of Huntingdon. He served on the Northwest Tennessee Community Health Board and is a past council member for the Carroll County Community Health Council. He also serves as an alumni advisor for Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity and is a past-president of the Huntingdon Lions Club. He is also a charter member of the Huntingdon Jaycees. Dr. Tucker serves the University of Tennessee as a current member of the Admissions Committee for the College of Pharmacy and has served as a past member of the UTAA Board of Governors.
Dr. Tucker was honored in 1993, as the Marion Merrell Dow Distinguished Young Pharmacist. In 1996 and 1997, He was awarded the Albert B. Prescott/Glaxo Wellcome Phi Delta Chi National Leadership Award and Phi Lambda Sigma National Leadership Award. He was named “Friend of ASP” in 2004 by the University of Tennessee Academy of Student Pharmacists. Timothy is an active member of First Baptist Church, serving as a member of the mens emsemble and WeeCare Committee. He and his wife, Diane Wood Tucker, an Occupational Therapist, have 3 boys: Will, Matthew, and Jack Tucker.
John A. Gans, Pharm.D
Distinguished Service to Pharmacy Award
The recipient of the 2009 Distinguished Service to Pharmacy Award is John
A. Gans. The Distinguished Service to Pharmacy Award is presented to an individual, organization, or corporation in recognition of their service to the profession of pharmacy, and recipients
do not necessarily have to be alumni of the college.
Dr. Gans is Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Pharmacists Association (APhA). His involvement in pharmacy began at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy in 1966 and a doctorate in pharmacy in 1969. He served on the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science faculty from 1980 to 1988 and as the Dean of the School of Pharmacy from 1988 until his appointment to APhA the following year.
After beginning his career as a community pharmacist, Dr. Gans served a residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and later became the hospital’s Assistant Director of Pharmacy. From 1974 to 1985, he served as Managing Director of Pharmaservices, a consultant firm to nursing homes.
Dr. Gans’ research interests included the original work in the development of total parenteral nutrition in humans and dogs for which he received a research award in 1972 from the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists.
Among his many contributions to the profession, Dr. Gans served as Chairman of the Delaware Valley Regional Poison Control Program, which established a 24-hour regional poison control center in 1985. He served as President of the Pennsylvania Society of Hospital Pharmacists in 1980–1981 and as President of the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists in 1986–1987. His other honors include the 1997 Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science Alumni Award and the 1998 Harvey A.K. Whitney Lecture Award presented by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.
Dr. Gans’ commitment to the profession of pharmacy reaches beyond proceedings in the United States as demonstrated by his sustained involvement in international pharmacy. He served as Secretary General for the Pan American Federation of Pharmacy from 1991 to 1994 and as its Vice President for North America since 1994. He has been an International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) Council Member since 1989, served in the Working Group on FIP Public Policy in 1995, and was elected as a Vice President to the FIP Bureau in 1998.
