The American College of Apothecaries presented the 2010 Dean’s Recognition Award to Kenneth L. Audus, of Lawrence, Kansas, at the College’s 2011 Annual Conference at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada. The presentation was made during the Presidents Banquet Saturday evening, April 16. The ACA’s Dean Recognition Award was established in 1992 to recognize outstanding service to community pharmacy practice by a Dean of a College or School of Pharmacy.
Kenneth L. (“Ken”) Audus holds a B.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of South Dakota in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the University of Kansas Medical Center in 1984. After completing postdoctoral work in Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Kansas, he joined the faculty of that Department in 1986 and worked his way up through the academic ranks to become a Full Professor in 1996 and then Chair of the Department in 1998. He is also a Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, KS.
Dr. Audus became Dean of the School of Pharmacy in April of 2004. Dean Audus’ research interests have included the development and application of cell culture models to study drug distribution across the blood-brain barrier for the treatment of tumors and Alzheimer’s disease, and human trophoblast culture systems for studying how drug distribution across the placenta might be controlled and provide for safer drugs for mother and the fetus during pregnancy. Dean Audus is the author or coauthor of 165 research articles, one patent, and the co-editor of one book on these topics.
Dean Audus is an Editor for the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and is a member the editorial boards of Current Pharmaceutical Design, International Journal of Pharmaceutics, Journal of Epithelial Biology and Pharmacology, and Pharmaceutics.
He serves as a consultant and on the Board of Trustees and/or Directors of a number of private and public foundations. Dean Audus is a Fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists and he has been recognized as an American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Teacher of the Year and for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Kansas.
The American College of Apothecaries is an international professional association of pharmacists and pharmacy students whose primary mission is to establish and provide programs which assure the delivery of pharmacy and related health care services of the highest quality and to promote private pharmacy practice.